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Posted by erbetal on Sun Jul 20th at 9:52pm 2008

how can we take screenshots in half life 1????



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Posted by ReNo on Sun Jul 20th at 11:48pm 2008

If you head into your options on the main menu, then go to your controls page, you should be able to bind any key you like to screenshot. I can't recall which button it is by default. Once your screenshots have been taken they'll be saved to your "...SteamApps<username>half-lifevalve" directory as a .BMP file. You'll then want to open it up in some image editor (paint, photoshop, whatever) to turn it into a .JPG if you're gonna post it online anywhere.



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Posted by Le Chief on Mon Jul 21st at 12:10am 2008

By default, the screenshot key is [F5].


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Posted by wil5on on Mon Jul 21st at 11:06am 2008

I thought they used another less common format like .tga or .png but I could be wrong.



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Posted by erbetal on Mon Jul 21st at 1:25pm 2008

Im talking about half life 1, its usually in the sierra file, but i'll try with f5 or something.



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Posted by Gwil on Mon Jul 21st at 2:14pm 2008

The directory structure is still the same for Steam or old school Sierra copies, just on the "vanilla" version you can ignore the steamid@blahblah.com rubbish and jump straight to valve directory.

Incidentally I had a run out on doublecross earlier and took a screenshot of my half decent performance, that came out as a .bmp



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Posted by erbetal on Mon Jul 21st at 2:19pm 2008

Thats ok, my pictures are stored directly in my half life file.



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Posted by G.Ballblue on Tue Jul 22nd at 4:12am 2008

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I thought they used another less common format like .tga or .png but I could be wrong.
Just for the sake of clarity, Half-Life can. If you simply type "screenshot" into the console, HL will spit out a poorly named .tga file rather than a .bmp.

I'm not entirely sure about the origins of this, but I do believe this dates back to the days of the original Quake engine. I know I've seen a beta screenshot of Half-Life in which the words "quake001.tga" were even being printed at the top of the screen!


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Posted by erbetal on Tue Jul 22nd at 12:27pm 2008

srry, unable to delette this post.





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Posted by Gwil on Tue Jul 22nd at 12:52pm 2008

That's fine.. may as well leave it on now. I love how one of our most active topics in days has been about screenshots for the original Half-Life. I no less than demand someone jigs things up by releasing a high quality TF2 map in the vain of "gravelpit" so that we may laud praise and scantily clad women (or men!) upon them.




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