Man, this thread is obviously well needed. Hope people read this one... *coughunliketherulesthreadcough* (lol)
Recommened File Type:
PNG
JPG
GIF
Do not try and show us BMP's! They are too big! It takes forever to view them...
The Coding:
1. Simply do this (without spacing):
[ url ]http://www.yoursitegoeshere.com[ /url ]
...that will make a link. Whatever is inbetween [ URL ] and [ /URL ] will be shown.
2. Or if you want a link name and not show all the link junk (like "Download Here"), do this:
[ url=http://blarblar ]Download Here[ /url ]
Easy.
The Lazy-man Way to Upload Pics:
Go here (http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=4;action=display;threadid=3584;start=0) to read Neole's sweet AGS contribution and quickly upload your pics!
*which reminds me to stop using it so much...
The TXT Trick:
The other way is to link from your site. But if it doesn't allow what they call "hot linking", like geocities, I've learned a cool trick for them tight-asses.
What I do is when I upload a PNG or JPG image into my filemanager, I rename it to TXT. That way they can be shown here. My avatar is a good example. Check it's properties.
(NOTE: Some browsers might open them as TXT files instead of images)
The Anonymizer Way:
There is a cool thing called Anonymizer that you can also use for your site that doesn't allow hotlinking. Just simply put http://invis.free.anonymizer.com before the images address. Most people use this trick.
Hope this helps you.
--Snake
Just to add a how to post an image so you can see it, not just a link
[ img ]http://www.yoursite.com/yourimage.gif[ /img ]
without the spaces
example of EXACTLY what you would type (but use the right link)
[img]http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/carlson1hires.gif[/img]
would bring up (http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/carlson1hires.gif)
Hooray, it's my crappy first-try pre-revision sprite! ;D
Um, I may be acting stupid here, but how do you take a screenshot?
with ags, you could
if (keycode==434) SaveScreenShot("scrnshot.bmp"); // F12
usually the same for all games. unless the coder messes with it.
or just play with the printscreen button on your keyboard.
You mean pressing F12 will take a screenshot?
next to your "enter" key to your right, you will have print screen/sysreg, press and hold shift and printscreen, then paste into mspaint or whatever paint tool you use
Paranoia
edit:
if it sez print screen on its own, you don't need to press shift
Mine says both and I don't have to press shift ;)
ALT + PRT SCRN works fine for me.
--Snake
Let's take JPG out from recommended filetypes... They look awful.
Quoteusually the same for all games. unless the coder messes with it.
Like me :) Well, I haven't messed with that line, so it works like it's made to, but the other keys are a bit re-arranged...
Taking screenshots with AGS wont show the cursor. Pressing ALT+PrintScreen will copy the active window, pressing PrintScreen only will capture the whole screen. If the game is fullscreen, it should not have diffrence.
AND if you are using Paint and you convert your screen to a GIF it will look crap! So find your self a better program, Paint is for kids who wants to spend time before Barney starts at the TV. ;D
Paint is good for basic drawing, but when it comes to shading of large pictures or converting to GIF, not good. Photoshop is good
I think a good blast on the ol' MSPaint once in a while is refreshing.
Besides, not EVERYONE can afford photoshop.
Didn't need to afford.... :D
I think paint is pretty cool. I use paint to make the basis of all my backgrounds before I upload the into The Gimp to add special stuff.
Gimp is a cool program. It can do EVERYTHING photoshop can do and it is absolutely FREE!
So what are you waiting for? Open a new browser window and download it at www.gimp.org! IT"S TOTALLY FREE!
... And if you call now you get a free t-shirt! NO CHARGE AT ALL! ;)
Geez i still can't do this thing. lol i obviously don't have enough brainpower.
Quote from: Zor on Sun 18/01/2004 13:50:00
I think paint is pretty cool. I use paint to make the basis of all my backgrounds before I upload the into The Gimp to add special stuff.
Gimp is a cool program. It can do EVERYTHING photoshop can do and it is absolutely FREE!
So what are you waiting for? Open a new browser window and download it at www.gimp.org! IT"S TOTALLY FREE!
Sounds cool, but the windows downloading thing is so comlicated. JUst tell me how in mays that a 5 year old can understand.
Download the installer version then:
http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/stable.html (http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/stable.html)
Download the first 2 files there (and the LZW one if you want to save compressed GIF and don't care about patent issues).
First install the GTK+, then GIMP, optionally the LZW one finally.
Also, where do the screenshots get saved to after you take them?
Do you actually have to HAVE a website to post a pic???
I hope you were just joking , but if not :
Yes , some sort of website ( doesn't have to be your own or whatever...just some page or site online that you upload pics too ) is a must. It would mean more work for you and it'd be more time consuming if you wanted to show off work via attachments by email or some such thing instead of just posting them somewhere and linking to the site. Plus , I think not many people would be interested if you wanted to do it that way.
And it's not like it's hard to find a good free site for pics or anything. *cough100megsfreecough* ;)
I think http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/upload/upload.html can be used for smallish files.
See this thread: http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=4;action=display;threadid=3584;start=0 for details.
??? Do you have to have your own website???
Blane: two people just answered that question. Maybe you could read their replies before asking the same question again?
::) Sorry, it was accident I posted it twice...
Um, can I get a geocities site and put my picks there, and then you could click on on it and choose SAVE PICTURE AS...can I do it that way?
excuse me?
Geocities, if you get an account there, does not allow hotlinking, btw. so you'll need to use anynymizer...
[img]http://invis.free-anonymizer.com/www.yourhost.com/yoursite/pic.gif[/img]
Please give a look at a place where you may upload eg screenshots:
http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/upload/upload.html
Damn! Sorry, that one was already been posted! Sorry for my rush and didn't look at both sides of the street, so I was run over... :-[
Quote from: Scummbuddy on Mon 16/06/2003 18:12:28
with ags, you could
if (keycode==434) SaveScreenShot("scrnshot.bmp"); // F12
usually the same for all games. unless the coder messes with it.
or just play with the printscreen button on your keyboard.
can i change the ("scrnshot.bmp") to ("scrnshot.png")?
Directly from the manual:
Quote
The FILENAME must end in either ".BMP" or ".PCX", as those are the types of files which can be saved.
So probably no, I don't know what would happen if it's ended with something else though.
You can however, always save it as BMP or PCX and convert it to the desired format with all these free and small programmes out there (eg. Irfan View (http://www.irfanview.com)).
/me finds many people are even too lazy to do some small conversion job themselves.
if you do change the filename to .png or something then the editor will simply add a .bmp on the end of it.
So you'll end up with ("scrnshot.png.bmp") when you take the screenshot.
However you can change the 'scrnshot' part to whatever you want.
How do i post screenshots at 2x size?
cause i have seen how post their screenshot at normal, then 2x size but how do i do that?
if you wanted to make a 320 x 200 image twice the size, you would type this:
[img width=640 height=400]www.yourpichere.gif[/img]
you have to decide the width & height of the image yourself (in pixels), so just double the dimensions you already have.
Quote from: Blane on Wed 12/05/2004 02:11:58
::) Sorry, it was accident I posted it twice...
Um, can I get a geocities site and put my picks there, and then you could click on on it and choose SAVE PICTURE AS...can I do it that way?
Quote from: Ishmael on Sat 15/05/2004 16:01:40
excuse me?
Geocities, if you get an account there, does not allow hotlinking, btw. so you'll need to use anynymizer...
[img]http://invis.free-anonymizer.com/www.yourhost.com/yoursite/pic.gif[/img]
how come that i can show all of my pictures??? they are all from geocities and all i do is [ img ]http://www.geocities.com/jnatann/Images/nongame/CHARACTE.gif[ /img ]
would bring up
(http://www.geocities.com/jnatann/Images/nongame/CHARACTE.gif)
but yet you say that you can't do this, then howcome it works?
blackman, just becuase it works for you doens't mean it would work for anyone else, as you would have a geocities cookie in your browser that would enable them for your oiwn pictures.
However, I can see the pic you just posted, so maybe geocities have changed their policy!
Quote from: Bluke4x4 on Mon 16/06/2003 18:10:15
Um, I may be acting stupid here, but how do you take a screenshot?
??? ar as galiu pazaist si zaidima nekaip nerandu))
Sorry, but, because i've got the pics on my pc, and i don't have a site, is it possible to upload images directly from my hard disk?
In the instructions of the BBCode, it says you can browse a picture just specifying the drive where it is. But where is the "browse" button?
The website has to let you upload the picture to the server it runs on and they don't here .
They do let you host pictures here .
http://imageshack.us/
Also, try www.photobucket.com they allow up to 25mb of images for free, and have good features
www.Maj.com is a great place for uploading pictures! It's possible to create your own gallerys there.
And I didn't found limitations.
But ho do i upload animations
Thanks for the .txt trick... It worked great.
:= You could just run your game and press Print Screen (duh!)
Let me try:
(http://img421.imageshack.us/img421/149/backth0.png) (http://imageshack.us)
I notice Neole's thing doesn't work anymore...you should remove it from this guide...
Ben
The upload thing works fine for me, it's just the link in this thread that's broken. This (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=3584.0) is the current link - the first message should probably be updated, not have it removed entirely.
Funnily enough something happened to my version of ags and I cant get screenshots if I either press printscn or with alt...I wonder whats wrong...
Quote from: Eero Ränik on Thu 19/06/2003 15:42:50
Let's take JPG out from recommended filetypes... They look awful.
You can tell most programs what quality the .jpg you're saving should have..
Quote from: Grim Reaper on Fri 17/08/2007 22:08:54
Funnily enough something happened to my version of ags and I cant get screenshots if I either press printscn or with alt...I wonder whats wrong...
yeah,that happened to me too!!
Don't know if anyone is still reading this thread, but here's a quick fix for Windows 7 users:
1 > Open up AGS and run your game (duh).
2 > Go to start, accessories, then double-click on Snipping Tool.
3 > Select Window snip and click on the game window.
4 > There is no fourth step.
Hope this helped :).