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spooq -> silly trick to make screenshots and seeing the whole game easier (1/22/2012 11:46:03 AM)

Hi,

I've been trying to figure out how to take very large screenshots without having to paste everything together.

So far I've tried to make the window larger than the desktop, which hasn't worked, even when using a utility like ScreenSpace. Other programs can be made larger, just not WitE.

Then I found Microsoft Image Composition Editor, which is better than having to line up pixels in MS Paint. You just crop off the menu at the top of each screenshot, and drag the whole lot into the ICE, and it takes care of the rest. Great time saver.

But then I found the really useful trick. I have a wide-screen monitor, like most people nowadays. But this is a game about a long north-south front, and most of the screen shows empty space. So why not put the monitor into portrait mode and turn it sideways? It has made a huge difference to the number of units I can see at a glance!

It also means there are fewer screenshots to composite and crop, which is great. I've attached a single unretouched screenshot to show what is possible after doing this.

Hope this helps

Luke

[image]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Q9OvtQ3UmBs/Txv2e9N_k4I/AAAAAAAAN9A/vqvBvTEXNq0/s800/ss.png[/image]



Emx77 -> RE: silly trick to make screenshots and seeing the whole game easier (1/22/2012 12:38:24 PM)

Excellent tricks. Only, is there a shortcut key for switching between portrait and landscape mode? It is very hard to navigate mouse arrow in portrait mode.



spooq -> RE: silly trick to make screenshots and seeing the whole game easier (1/22/2012 12:54:17 PM)

That depends on your videocard driver, not Windows itself. If you go into the settings, you might be able to find somewhere to set the shortcut. It will be different for different videocard manufacturers.

Might suggest you try ctrl-alt-arrowkey first, and if that doesn't work, download iRotate



Texasgrunt -> RE: silly trick to make screenshots and seeing the whole game easier (1/23/2012 2:59:31 AM)

Interesting. In fact having the front run L-R instead of up-down would be more like playing the old board game.

Hated it when a losing opp would roll the dice across the front line and scatter the divisions.



gradenko2k -> RE: silly trick to make screenshots and seeing the whole game easier (1/24/2012 3:56:21 PM)

Paging larryfulkerson to the thread! What a fantastic discovery.



stone10 -> RE: silly trick to make screenshots and seeing the whole game easier (1/30/2012 11:14:32 PM)

very interesting, how do you enter portrait mode?



Apollo11 -> RE: silly trick to make screenshots and seeing the whole game easier (1/31/2012 12:38:53 PM)

Hi all,

You can also fire up the Virtual PC of your choice and set the resolution you want (for example I can use 2560x1920)... [:)]


BTW, I usually do the following (I have 1600x1200 resolution on my workstation at home):

#1
Make screenshoots

#2
Use IrfanView in "Batch Mode" with saved ".ini" files tuned for specific task - cropping of menus for example.

#3
Stitch the screenshoots in Adobe PhotoShop CS5


Leo "Apollo11"



larryfulkerson -> RE: silly trick to make screenshots and seeing the whole game easier (2/2/2012 5:28:24 PM)

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ORIGINAL: gradenko_2000
Paging larryfulkerson to the thread! What a fantastic discovery.

Yeah, I know...........I'm looking into this. I created 4 screenshots and dragged them into ICE and voila` I had my front lines automatically. This is a really great time saver. Plus I don't have to line up any pixels anymore to get them to look right. It's all done for me by magic.

The resulting file is too big to post here but I've created a "thumbnail" of the result and here it is:



[image]local://upfiles/16287/4FC7B281F7AA4CE893D75ADA6536215E.jpg[/image]



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