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Set the Camera to save screenshots

Jonnan

Jonnan

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Just a thought.
A ) if the camera could save screenshots (seems easy, says man with no idea how to do it),
B ) if the screenshots were saved in such a way that you could frame them in game (seems ... Less easy, says man with even less idea how to do it).
Torture your settlers. Fix Starlight Drive-in to show one long slideshow.

"And here's Preston and Piper at the Castle, and this is a group photo of Curie, Ada, Codsworth, and Jezebel, at Greygarden, you can see Jezebel flipping me off... Now this one is Hancock at that Ghoul settlement with the tarberries. He's flipping me off too but he grins too much to mean it..."
 
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What you are suggesting is not possible vanilla. Therefore its unlikely the SS2 team would do this.

It would be difficult to have the camera "take" a screenshot. There is no method I am aware of to know when the player "fired" the camera. It may be possible with a F4SE plugin, but I do not know of any existing plugins that do this.

Displaying the captured screenshot is most likely not possible as it needs to be converted to .dds first. There may be a programmer with the skills to make a F4SE plugin to do this, but I wouldn't count on it.
 
Now I'm trying to remember, but the photography quest in New Vegas, the actual 'Photos' showed up in game I think. I wonder how they got it to work?
 
I'm pretty sure those are static photos of the landmarks that are part of the quest. But my memory is a bit fuzzy too...
 
As luck would have it, I'm just now working on that quest in FNV... decided to visit Willow for a bit.
The camera is in your inventory as a weapon (Codac R9000).
The file is in your inventory as Ammo.
The photos themselves are NOT added to inventory, you only see them onscreen as your zooming in with your mouse with the camera equipped (as seen thru a camera lens)
 
Jonnan said:
A ) if the camera could save screenshots (seems easy, says man with no idea how to do it)
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I think I figured out a way to do this. Are you willing to be a test sub... guinea p... err... help me test it?
 
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I found a way to make this camera a little deadly... I did find a way to capture a screenshot, but I haven't figured out how to get the player out of the pic.
:todd:

Edit: I think that flash is a little strong...
 
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Did you take a look at Photo Mode to see how the player is removed when in First Person?
 
msalaba said:
I think I figured out a way to do this. Are you willing to be a test sub... guinea p... err... help me test it?
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So... Should I just start calling myself Clem and start gathering 'a staggering quantity of radioactive material'?
 
GuardianMF said:
Did you take a look at Photo Mode to see how the player is removed when in First Person?
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I did. All the magic in that mods takes place in the F4SE plugin and swf file (menu). I do not have any knowledge of those systems. :( Unlike Reg2k's other mods, there are no Papyrus hooks in this one. I'm basically limited to what can be done with the CK, xEdit, Papyrus and a little nif hacking.
 
:rofl
Once I figured out how to get a trigger that "the player fired the camera" the rest was pretty simple. One the plus side, the knowledge I gained will be useful in another mod I have on the back burner. :)

I'm pretty sure I saw a flash mod for the camera. I'm gonna try to add a flash effect next.
 
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