Recent troubles taking screenshots

Bright Red Nipples

This is something that's happened within the past couple of weeks and now it's finally ticked me off. I can't take screenshots anymore for some reason. Now I checked my config folder and it's set like this bind "F10" "snapshot". Is that the correct setting or does it need the "+" symbol in front of snapshot?? Or could it be because there is some weird config with the F10 key now so we can't use it?? Any help would be appreciated. Thx in advance.
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PondScum007 · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 6:23 pm Post subject:

hm thats teh command i have, did you try bingin to another key in case a later execed bind i overwriting F10?
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Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 6:50 pm Post subject:

I just bound it to the 0 key but haven't tried that yet. I had a late thought to try that. Thx for the response.

*uses Hoaxies edit button* OK that didn't work. Still need some help if there is any out there.
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Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 8:25 pm Post subject:

help?? vi$it??
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Whatever · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 8:34 pm Post subject:

Sounds like you have the syntax right. Are you binding it by editing your config.cfg or are you doing it in the console. Could it be that your config.cfg is read-only?

I have mine set that way and I have to remember to uncheck that if I want to change my bindings.
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JuVaNiLe · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 8:41 pm Post subject:

i have mine set for F5

Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 8:43 pm Post subject:

I do all of my changes, name, binds, etc.. in my sierra/halflife/tfc/config folder. The thing is that I never changed anything with the snapshot or the F10 key. I just noticed that it wasn't working all of a sudden. Now when you take a screen shot it just saves it in the sierra/halflife/tfc folder right?? There isn't any other folder that it saves it in. It's been awile since I looked at my screen shots and I can't remember.

Whatever · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 8:49 pm Post subject:

I am afraid I don't know a lot about snapshots. I did find this real quick:

How can I take / view / convert screenshots or snapshots in Half-Life?

Use the screenshot console command -- it's bound to the F5 key by default. Every time you press F5, the game saves a numbered bitmap picture of the current view to the half-life directory (so that you can take many without overwriting the previous ones). These are very large files, so you'll probably want to convert them to JPG format to make them smaller (try Paint Shop Pro). To take better shots, you may want to disable the weapon crosshairs and model. The console commands r_drawviewmodel and r_crosshairs turn these on and off when se to 1 or 0. You can make F5 turn off crosshairs and the weapon model before taking the shot and turn them on again after with: bind F5 "r_drawviewmodel 0; r_crosshairs 0; screenshot; r_drawviewmodel 1; r_crosshairs 1"
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Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 9:15 pm Post subject:

OK, this weeks winner of the Charlie Dumb F*** award is ***Drums start playing***, Bright Red Nipples for not seeing that he was actually taking screenshots all along but just had new symbols in front of the files so he didn't recognize them. Thx Pond, Whatever, and Juvanile for putting up with my ignorance.
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`RaphX · Registered User Joined: 24 Mar 2002 Posts: 1556

I use:
bind "6" "snapshot"
and I have to put that in again in another part of my config. The bit where keys 1-9 are changed by Bada's 1337 spy script. Half of my keys are redundant just now - maybe I'll look at it soon.
Always change it back to read-only once your finished, as the game seems not to like that spy script, and will remove it, if possible.

bobins · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 9:55 am Post subject:

where do the snapshots/screenies get saved... i cant find em....

believe it or not... i never knew the snap shot button thingy existed... lol

and i duno where the shots get saved... i just had a lil look tryin to find em.. but i can..

[EDIT: dont worry i've found them... i was lookin in the tfc directory and not in the half life section...

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Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 2:25 pm Post subject:

I feel your ignorance Bobins. Hell, I even posted a thread to show it, heheh

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Gurrg · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 7:42 pm Post subject:

hey nipples instead of opening your config files, open up the actual game half life and set you screenshot in "Controls" to what you want. I had your prob. that fixed it with me. Never did figure out what was wrong though?
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PondScum007 · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 9:50 pm Post subject:

Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 10:34 pm Post subject: