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Announcing Entropia Screen grabber v1.6 with new and updated functionality:
- Take screenshots from inside EU with a preset hotkey of your choice
- Organize your screenshots automatically in subfolders
- Automatically screenshot after a global or hof with your name, including timestamp and coordinates (PS: Requires main chat log enabled ingame)
- Smudge ped balance, chats or the area of your choice before upload.
- Select and upload screenshots directly to EF from within the program.
- Help tracking globals for public statistics on entropiauniverse.info (coming soon)
For windows vista and windows 7: When running in fullscreen mode ESG is not compatible with accellerated desktop themes like aero unless you use the experimental dx9 screenshot method available under advanced options. See the bottom of this post for ways to fix this.
Global logging is completely voluntary and all functionality except for AutoScreen is available both with and without it. When active only direct global information like name, size, type etc is uploaded. No chats, no other information.
When specifying the location of your log file keep in mind MindArk moved this to my documents/Entropia Universe. If you select the file in your entropia folder it will not be updated when you global, and so the auto SS will not work. In most cases this folder should be detected automatically.
To verify your log file is working correctly write down one letter in the character name box and then wait for someone starting on that letter to global. The program will then save a screenshot if you set it up correctly.
Downloads available at:
Version 1.7.1 : http://entropiauniverse.info/tracker/ESG1.7.1.zip
Version 2.0.0 alpha :
package: http://entropiauniverse.info/tracker/esg2.0.06a.zip
installer: http://entropiauniverse.info/tracker/esg2.0.06a_installer.zip
No installation required. Just unzip it to a folder and run it.
(Remeber to unpack it though before running or it might cause an error)
If you are using Vista or Windows 7 together with accellerated desktop then normal screenshotting will produce black screenshots when playing entropia in fullscreen.
To get around the problem you need to do one of the following:
1. Inactivate the accelerated desktop somehow, either by completely changing to classic theme, or as sunny wrote, "inactivate visual themes", and "inactivate desktop-composition/assembly" (loosely translated).. I personally don't have windows 7, so maybe someone else could explain exactly how to do this.
2. Reactivate the "advanced" screenshot functionality in ESG. This mode is disabled by default. To do this you should first make sure entropia is running, then activate it (you find it under advanced settings). Then toggle between entropia and ESG a couple of times until ESG changes title to "ESG 1.7.X (Connected to entropia)". You might also have to restart Entropia to get it to work. See the screenshot below:
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This mode is experimental, but once you get it to work it should capture screenshots like a charm, and it will acctually capture screenshots of entropia even if it's in the background of other programs (ie if youre watching a movie while say crafting), but only if it is in the background, not when minimized.
Should you have any feedback or suggestions for improvement please reply in this thread or send me a PM.
Thanks to Butch C, CozMoDan, jod, cindywood and all the other betatesters so far that helped me evolve this product so far.
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