Gimp Chimp!
 

Sergei (or anyone else that may know),

I tried the Gimp program and opened up one of the 4 shots I took last night but now there is an odd 'checkerboard' pattern over the image seen mainly in the sky section and the bow spray.And when I finally saved this image in .jpeg format the 'new' image seems to be a negative of the original,because these shots were taken at night and now the sky is pure white with this silly checkerboard still visible.
I am NOT happy and will probably give up trying to take screens for my reports now,it seems more trouble than its worth,SH3 USED to be able to take screenshots normally (AND in jpeg format I think) and then I could simply uploaded the image/s to the Imageshack server,but after the higher res fix? seems it has screwed that basic function up beyond repair! :x:damn:

Any advice as to what I may be doing wrong within the Gimp program would be well recieved! I will give this one last shot.

Thanks :yawn:

The Print Screen key on it's own does it for me with the hi-res screen mod installed.

Nemo

I don't think the problem is with GIMP.
I am pretty sure that on some peoples systems the Res Fix FUBARS the screenshots.

I am re-installing SH3 today (threw too many mods at it and broke the sucker!)

So, I did a little experiment.

Shot 1. Stock Install. Stock resolution.

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/8454/without1.jpg

Shot 2. Stock install. Res fix applied.

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/667/with1.jpg

Sorry Paul. If this is happening to you too, then I would say the only way you are going to get decent screenshots is with an external 3rd party screenshot app.

Dont suppose you know of any 3rd party screenshot apps out there? and how exactly would that work OUTSIDE of the game :hmmm:
Thanks for the reply by the way,looks like it is a universal problem with the rex fix (damn)
Lastly,how exactly did you break your game,what mods do you suspect where causing the problem,and can you tell me what was happening? (for my own reference of course,even though I dont use that many mods,say about 10 or so and thats including 4 or 5 of the default ones within GWX)

The only one I found that worked to my satisfaction was one called Screenshot Utility. But as I said (some other thread I think) it's not free.
Haven't found a decent free one yet.
It worked by running in the background. Yeah sure, that took up system resources, but we're talking k here, rather than meg. I didn't notice any degredation in SH3's performance. And the hotkey I assigned to take a shot remained active, regardless of what application I was using at the time.

Don't know for sure. I would be cruising along and just CTD.
I'm not even sure that Mod Soup was the cause of my problem.
I have been experimenting with cloning ships recently. So to make sure I didn't break anything, would copy the relevant ship files from the SH3 directory into a folder on my desktop.
I suspect (but don't know for sure) that I ended up moving some instead of copying them. Then the SH3 engine went to render a ship that had just wandered into my view, but couldn't because it was missing a file (or files). CTD.

Seeing as I was just starting a new career, so therefore had nothing to lose, I just figured I'd do a reinstall, rather than trying to track down the cause of the problem.