noob question .... how to make an ingame screenshot?

[JanHovius]

Well ... the subject says it all.

Do I need a 3rd party tool or is it some built-in keystroke I should use for this.

Thanks for the feedback

Jan.

[zoolpool]

a very simple way is to press the PRINT SCREEN button on your keyboard and paste it into paint or word etc

zoolpool

[Gunn]

Shift + F clears all text and HUD from the screen.
Shift + U activates user cam so you can set up your shot nicely. Try to get the sun shining on the facing view. Spacebar hides/unhides the controls.
Print Screen on your keyboard copies the image to your PC's clipboard.
Shift + F4 minimises LFS to a window.
Open your graphics program and create a new image the same size as your screen resolution, 1024 x 768 for example.
CTRL + V (paste) pastes the clipboard contents into the new document.

*To get rid of those yucky jagged lines make sure you have Anti Aliasing set on at least 2X in your graphics card's advanced properties before taking the screenshot.

[JanHovius]

Gunn and zoolpool,


This "noob" says "thank you very much". This was the piece of information I needed.

Thanks again.

[Huru-aito]

If you plan to take more than one screenshot at a time, it's easier to use an external program to save the screenshots, so you don't have to alt+tab or shift+f4 out of LFS every time you take a shot :)

I use Fraps (http://www.fraps.com), but surely there are other programs aswell.