How to take a snapshot in-game

[dbuske]

The printscreen function of my Dell Inspiron notebook apparently doesn't work.
I have searchedeverything in AGS and the forums and the AGS website and can't find info.
How do I take a snapshot inside the running game?

[Gilbert]

If you're using the default game template you can use F11 or F12 (I couldn't remember which one, just check it in the global script) to take a screenshot.

[Khris]

It should be F12.

You can change the key to another one, all pressing F12 does is call the SaveScreenShot command.

The screenshot ends up in "My Documents/My Saved Games/Game_Name/" (or the game dir with older games).

[dbuske]

Thanks guys

[dbuske]

Afraid that F12 or F11 are not working.  I cannot find a sceenshot bmp file anywhere in the game directory or in documents.

[tzachs]

Open your GlobalScript.asc (in your scripts).
Search up the word "SaveScreenshot", is it there?

If not, then enter inside the on_key_press function:

Code: ags

function on_key_press(eKeyCode keycode) 
{
     .....
     .....
     if (keycode == eKeyF12) SaveScreenShot("scrnshot.pcx");  // F12
     .....
     .....
}