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Aug 13^th, 2003 at 5:52pm

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This is gonna be a really stupid question for most of you here, BUT, I've taken alot of screen shots of my flights; I cannot find them anywhere!? What am I doing wrong? I looked through the help menu in the game, It says nothing about it... Got some cool shots!!!

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Reply #1 - Aug 13^th, 2003 at 5:54pm

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What program are you using to catch them??

Brad

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Reply #2 - Aug 13^th, 2003 at 6:01pm

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What do you mean, like Paint shop or something? I have Paint shop Pro 8. If that is what you mean, that's all I have... I've never tried to capture any screen shot with any of the micro- fs series, but this is too cool to not try to...
Dano...

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Reply #3 - Aug 13^th, 2003 at 6:44pm

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If you don't have a screenshot program then I think the best that you can hope for is one screenshot at a time. Unless you do the Windows (logo key) and "D" keys or the Alt and Tab keys to save each screenshot by interupting your mission or campaign for each one. When I'm flying and I want to capture a screenshot I just hit the Print Screen key or the Alt and Print Screen keys. Then when the mission is over and I quit CFS3 and go back to my desktop. I then have to paste it into MS Paint which I do by .....

Start/All Programs/Accessories/Paint. Then Open a new window and select Paste. It will then paste your screenshot there for you to see, usually in a smaller window that you can maximize if you want too. Then hit "Save As" and entitle it....name it and then choose whatever format you want to use. Bitmap (.bmp) is the highest quality but most people just save it as a .jpeg to save space and this will enable you to post them back here (if you want to) after you crop them to size. 100KBs is the limit and 800 pixels across is too. Or there abouts.

When you use MS Paint it should save them to your "My Pictures" folder by default unless you have otherwise set the destination path to a different folder/location.

After you name them and for some reason you lose them you can always search for them by name and file type. Go to Start/ then Search and put in the exact file name in the appropriate box and search for them.

I hope this helps. If you want to take alot of screenshots in a mission or campaign there are quite a few programs that you can download for free that will enable you to do this. Hopefully someone here can give you a few names and URLs to get you on your way.

Umm, now that I think about it there may be another way inside of CFS3 to do this....but if there is I can't recall what it is.

Good luck.

Bob

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Reply #4 - Aug 13^th, 2003 at 6:55pm

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I no longer have CFS3 installed. As I remember the CFS3 screenshot key command is Shift + ; ( or Ctrl + ; ). The shots are saved to something like My Documents/Combat Flight Simulator 3.

You can also use the Print Screen key in the usual way. MW's MultiGrab works fine with all M$ sims. http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm

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Reply #5 - Aug 13^th, 2003 at 8:34pm

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Thanks for the return, I'll be trying that as soon as I finish writing back with the thank you. Hopefully I'll be able to return the same favors. Happy flying, I'm planning on getting on the zone tonight, HOPE to see you guts there...

Dano...
9:20 AM: Went to zone, no CFS-3? What's up??? I thought for sure it would be there, All I saw was CFS-1 and CFS-2. Am I looking in the right place?

« Last Edit: Aug 15^th, 2003 at 9:18am by The_Danoman »

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Reply #6 - Aug 13^th, 2003 at 9:38pm

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Thanks you two... I did what you said, and Boom! there it was...
that's so cool...

Dano! Grin

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