Taking Screenshots in Tabula Rasa

Posted by Stropp on September 27, 2007

The last few times I have been playing the Tabula Rasa beta, I’ve attempted to take some screenshots of the action. It’s always nice to put something up to show everyone what you’re talking about. Alas, nothing seemed to work. Since there was no manual, I was left scouring the keybindings to see if there was some magical key combo required to work.

Seeing as that didn’t work I checked the forums. If all else fails…

It turns out that pressing the Print Screen (PrtScn) key does actually take a screenshot, but doesn’t save it to a the disk. Instead, the image is saved to the clipboard. So once you’ve hit that Print Screen key, you need to alt-Tab out of Tabula Rasa and paste to a graphics program. I use Paint.Net, but any paint program will do, including Windows Paint.

Once you’ve pasted into the paint program, it’s then easy to save it to where ever you like.

Here are a couple of images from the game.

I created a new character this evening to check out the Specialist branch of the the class tree. Her name is Angel Stropp and she was created on the second US server. After running through the recruit missions, she landed in the Wilderness Zone.

Please forgive the quality of this image, the map was cutoff because I made a mistake in pasting the image. Anyway, the starting area is Alia Das in the top right of the map. BTW, see that red spot in the middle right at the bottom. That’s the Landing Zone and it’s currently controlled by the Bane. The players will have to mount an assault to bring it back under control.

Anyway, for one mission I needed to take Angel into the caverns under Pinhole Falls.

There she met a bunch of lovely tentacled floaty Miasmas who just wanted to have her over for dinner. Unfortunately, Angel had to decline their offer. In fact she declined dinner so many times with her trusty Shinobi Shotgun that she ran out of ammo.

So there you have it. Unfortunately, taking screenshots at the moment is a real pain since you can really only take one at a time. I did read one forum post that indicated that the devs are going to implement a proper screenshot facility which saves to a file. Hopefully that will be soon.

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