General screenshot thread

[Wolf]

I have an interesting screenshot of just now. It's not of the game but of the forum. I liked it anyway!
Just look at the last 2 numbers.

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[Avago-Earo]

When you write a new post, there's a tab labelled "Upload attachment" below the text input box. Click on that. Then click the "Choose File" button, select the image, and click the "Add the file" button, which will upload the file to the server. Finally, when this is done, there's a "Place inline" button that will put a tag into the text box to insert the image.

Where is the place inline button? What does it look like (icon)?

[Flip]

Where is the place inline button? What does it look like (icon)?

Here it is:

Screen Shot 2014-12-17 at 18.45.02.png (12.42 KiB) Viewed 3355 times

@Wolf: nice catch, mate!

[Avago-Earo]

Where is the place inline button? What does it look like (icon)?

Here it is:

Screen Shot 2014-12-17 at 18.45.02.png

@Wolf: nice catch, mate!

@but I don't see that. All I get is Preview and Submit. I get red writing saying the file is too big but it's a game screenshot so how do I do it?

Sorry, I don't know much about this sort of thing

[Flip]

Well, the "place inline" button only appears after you uploaded the file. If you can't upload the file, you can't display it.

A screenshot from the game is too big to be displayed on the forum (both in terms of image size and in terms of file size). So you have to reduce it first. What you can do if you don't have Photoshop or some similar image editor is to open it in Windows' pictures viewer (or what it's called), zoom out to reduce the size of the image to something suitable for the forum, make a screenshot of that, and crop the screenshot.

Personally I do all this kind of stuff on Mac (I use Windows only for gaming) so I'm not really qualified to help you further, here, but if you need more assistance I'm sure lots of people can suggest easy ways to do it on Windows.

[Forked]

There are mods for phpbb to autoresize user posted images, however phpbb.com appears to have been hacked, so ..

[Avago-Earo]

Flip and Forked, thanks for the replies.

I have some screenshots I want to share so now I have some info on how I can do it.

Before I used a PC for recording and editing music and left everything else alone until I found out about ED and built my first gaming PC so I'm a noob to even the most basic things that most people take as second nature. It took me about two weeks to get FaceTrackNoIR to work with a 3 point LED head clip, taking the IR filter out of the PS Eye camera, adjusting exposure and gain, adjusting translation curves, and dropping a .csv file into the software for ED to be 'seen'. Two weeks head scratching and teddy bear tantrums but I'm glad I did.

So cheers. Any basic info like that is welcome my end

[Walter]

Can I suggest that this thread is raised to the level of topic on the index page, with instructions as a sticky post?

[Zarkon]

Here's a little gem I ran across while exploring the edge of civilized space. I was approaching Jacquard Vision and dropped out of SC in the shadow of the planet. This makes the second time I'd ever seen this type of station.



BIG version:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/ ... g~original

[BinaryBrewWorks]

Running rares and saw this poor NPC stuck in the slot.

"Type 9's don't go in sideways"


"I've made a horrible mistake"


"Full throttle! That'll fix it!"


*Boom*


"Clean up on aisle 1"


RIP CMDR Perrins