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Level Editing Support => Knytt Stories Level Previews => Topic started by: delii on December 11, 2010, 17:01:06

Title: showing level screenshots?
Post by: delii on December 11, 2010, 17:01:06
It may have been answered before, but I really tried to find it and couldn't. I want to show some pictures of my level(not finished yet) and I was wondering how to go about doing that. Also when the time comes, how to upload it. I promise I tried looking for it so don't get all mad and tell me to go look it up.
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Title: Re: I have a question
Post by: yohji on December 11, 2010, 17:51:32
To make a screenshot, load your level, get Juni to the screen you want to capture, then press Alt-PrtScr while the KS window is active. That puts an image of the window in the clipboard. You can now load some graphics editor - even MS Paint will do. If you have Photoshop or something similarly advanced, then I assume you know how to create files from clipboard there. In MS Paint just press Ctrl+V, which will paste the image, then go File->Save and save it as a PNG file.

Then you create a topic in this board, KS Level Previews, and attach said image to the message by using Additional Options->Attach. As for uploading the level, you can use knyttlevels.com (choose "Upload New Level" at the left), or any filesharing service such as Mediafire, Sendspace, etc.
Title: Re: I have a question
Post by: egomassive on December 12, 2010, 05:49:19
There are more details in the Forum FAQ (http://nifflas.lpchip.nl/index.php?topic=30.0). Scroll down to where it says, "I've finished my level! How do I get it to other people?"
Title: Re: I have a question
Post by: delii on December 23, 2010, 17:56:40
When I click alt printscrn nothing happens, am I doing something wrong or is it different for different computers?
Title: Re: I have a question
Post by: Miss Paula on December 23, 2010, 20:14:06
When I click alt printscrn nothing happens, am I doing something wrong or is it different for different computers?
you're probably not doing anything wrong, you just don't see any result...yet; you still have to follow the second part of the instruction:
That puts an image of the window in the clipboard. You can now load some graphics editor - even MS Paint will do. If you have Photoshop or something similarly advanced, then I assume you know how to create files from clipboard there. In MS Paint just press Ctrl+V, which will paste the image, then go File->Save and save it as a PNG file

Title: Re: showing level screenshots?
Post by: minmay on December 24, 2010, 21:02:14
Note that this advice assumes you're using Windows.
Title: Re: showing level screenshots?
Post by: delii on December 25, 2010, 00:08:46
oh dang I feel like an idiot haha
yeah I was looking for a clipboard somewhere on my computer. But thanks that worked(:
Title: Re: showing level screenshots?
Post by: variad on December 25, 2010, 01:05:45
It took me a while to figure out that you couldn't SEE the clipboard  ;) But on very old versions of Windows, like 3.1, I think it was possible.
Title: Re: showing level screenshots?
Post by: LPChip on December 27, 2010, 15:59:31
Technically, you could install a clipboard manager like ClipX which, due to it being a multiple clipboard items manager, allows you to see the clipboard content at any time and paste anything that goes in (up to a certain amount).