How do you take a screen shot?

[Rainbow_Brite]

Hi.
Does anyone know how to take screen shots of your game?

I am sure it can be done from viewing the Galleries.
The function I am looking for is the equivalent of F9 in ToonTown.

Thanks.

[artofwot]

Press the “Prnt Scrn” (Print Screen) key on your keyboard. Then, open any image editing application and click the paste button (Ctrl-V).

The Print Screen key copies what’s on your screen to the clipboard.

I’m not sure if there’s a shortcut to take a screenshot built into Panda.

[Yellow]

I supose you could render everything to 2d, then save the image. But I have no idea how that would look like exactly.

[Rainbow_Brite]

Thanks a millions Artofwot.
It works fine.
For some reason I have never been able to get PrtScr to work … till now.
(so the trick is the screen shot is kept in the clipboard, Ahhh I see)
slaps the head
Cool.

[russ]

I have always used the printscreen key, but ShowBase does have a screenshot function. You can call base.screenshot(‘namePrefix’).

This in turn calls a GrpahicsWindow saveScreenShotDefault function, which uses parameters that you will need to define in the config file:

The default filename is generated from the supplied prefix and from the Config variable screenshot-filename, which contains the following strings:
// %~p - the supplied prefix
// %~f - the frame count
// %~e - the value of screenshot-extension
// All other % strings in strftime().

You could also use base.win.saveScreenshot(Filename). Make sure that Filename is an actual Filename() instance. You will probably need to include the file extension in that, but I am not sure what graphic file types panda supports.