Screenshots in renpy

[Deleted member 192234]

I wanted to make screenshot of a scene in a renpy game but I got message in a form of a small line of text in one of the game's window's top corners"Failed to save screenshot as pathtothegame'sfolder\screenshot0001.png.". I am getting this error with all renpy games, no matter how many times I am redownloading them, so I don't think that it's the game problem. Also, I think that it's only my problem, because at the time when I started having this error, I saw other people uploading screenshots in some threads.

I don't know what the problem is , what to do with it or where to ask for help. Is it a problem with the folder? I keep all games that I downloaded from F95 ZONE in my "downloads" folder. I've always had them there and I never had that problem.

I tried to find solution on internet, but I din't find anything. Please, somebody, help me, or point me to some website where I cand find solution or help.

Thanks.

 

[bas]

Are you extracting the games from the zip files before playing them? Sounds like you're just going into the zips with Windows Explorer and playing from there.

 

[Flecc]

I wanted to make screenshot of a scene in a renpy

Create a screen shot


1, Open game when you get to scene you want press prt top row of keyboard.(usually next to f12 )
2, open paint
3 ,paste into paint
4 ,crop borders out
5, save

voila 1 screen shot

 

[Deleted member 192234]

Are you extracting the games from the zip files before playing them? Sounds like you're just going into the zips with Windows Explorer and playing from there.

I am extracting the games from zip folder.

Create a screen shot


1, Open game when you get to scene you want press prt top row of keyboard.(usually next to f12 )
2, open paint
3 ,paste into paint
4 ,crop borders out
5, save

voila 1 screen shot

Thanks. I completely forgot about print screen button. I've always made screenshots of renpy games by pressing the "S" button, and I've never made a screenshot of something else. But when the "S" button stopped working, I got confused.

 

[scrumbles]

Maybe it's actually a problem with the folder (permission or whatnot).
Edit the path where the screenshots are saved and see if anything changes.

- create a new folder. For instance C:\User\YOUR_NAME\Desktop\Test (even better, D:\Test if your hard disk is partitioned)
- open the console (open renpy\common\00console.rpy in a text editor; find "config.console = False" and change False to True; save; launch the game; press Shift+O)
- type (the path depends on the folder you have created, of course):

config.screenshot_pattern = "C:\User\YOUR_NAME\Desktop\Test\screenshot%04d.png"

"screenshot%04d.png" is how screenshots are named (screenshot0001.png, screenshot0002.png, screenshot0003.png, ...)
- press Enter, then press Esc to quit the console

Play the game, press S and see what happens.

 

[I'm Not Thea Lundgren!]

If you are saving the games to a system folder, such as the desktop, you may run into problems; Windows has this thing where if it sees files being created outside of normal processes, it gets a little antsy and stops it.

Try moving the game folder to a different folder and see if you get the same issue.

 

[GioTrev]

Run the exe of the game as an administrator, it worked for me. Sorry for the late response, hope you'll read this