screenshots

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

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-life\valve" 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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By default, the screenshot key is [F5].

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

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

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

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

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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Breaking the laws of mapping since 2003 and doing a damn fine job at it

srry, unable to delette this post.

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.