Photos

[PO45080]

Hi.
I'm trying to find on the forum some information on how you can take a photo of the work you have done (ie own route), so it appears in the preview menu in CM.
Need an idea as where to look.
PO45080.

 

[dnevans8]

In game go to the place you want to appear as your preview picture.
Press Prt Scr on your keyboard.

The jpg file will be in TS2010/Userdata/Screenshots.

Open this in a photo editor and resize it to 240 x 180 and save.

In CM open your route for edit in explorer.

Copy your saved image to this folder.

Double click on the config.txt file so that it opens in your text editor (not Word or similar wordprocessor).

Insert the following lines into the config.txt file:

thumbnails
{
0
{
image "$screenshot$.jpg"
width 240
height 180
}
}

Where $screenshot$ is the name of the file you saved above.

Save and close the config.txt file.

Close the explorer window.

Edit/Commit you asset.

The image should appear in the asset window in CM and in game.
This can be repeated for any sessions to provide a view in the Edit Session page.

 

[ray_whiley]

To add to the above -

Use 'alt+U' to enter 'fly' mode and use your controls (mouse wheel, arrows, page up and down, etc) to compose the shot as you want to take it.

To resize the screenshot and avoid distortion, when you open it in an image editor, select an area the full width of the shot but only 960 pixels vertical* (to get the correct proportions), move the selected area down to cut off any view of the top of the Surveyor screen, copy and paste as a new image, then resize this to 240 x 180.

*This is necessary because the original screenshot is not in the same proportion as the 240 x 180 image required.

To show the same shot in the forums, resize instead to 640 x 480 and upload to an image hosting website, then paste the 'forum code' you are given into your post.

Ray

 

[Dermmy]

.....
Open this in a photo editor and resize it to 240 x 180 and save.


thumbnails
{
0
{
image "$screenshot$.jpg"
width 240
height 180
}
}

The image should appear in the asset window in CM and in game.
This can be repeated for any sessions to provide a view in the Edit Session page.

240 x 180 was the old DLS $screenshot$ size, preview pics in later versions better 512 x 512...

 

[ray_whiley]

240 x 180 was the old DLS $screenshot$ size, preview pics in later versions better 512 x 512...

Thanks for this information - that's my one new thing learned daily for today!

Ray