Darksiders 3 crucible5/17/2023 ![]() Really at the end of the day, this gave me what I really wanted. For example, it caught a pack in mid-explosion down in delve which looks freaking sweet. There were enough cool screenshots though that I think this is going to be how I handle this going forward. This means that I have a fair number of photos of me showing my inventory in various states of being unloaded. The normal process of me running content is to fill up my inventory, then port to my hideout and dump said inventory before diving back in again. It also captured a good number of completely useless screenshots of me futzing with my inventory. I never could have captured a moment in time with quite so much clarity as I would have effectively had to stop what I was doing, hit the print screen key, and then go back to attempting combat. For example, I was getting attacked by some sort of lightning attack it seems like and you can see my Toxic Rain falling as well as I was clearing my way through a Crimson Temple map. This allowed me to capture some really interesting screenshots of skill effects firing off. So last night while I was running maps and done delve, I had it sitting in the background quietly snapping a screenshot every minute. I wish there was an option to have it capture the active window, but it works well enough for what it does do. I removed the %pn from the beginning of the file name because for fullscreen captures it is not able to determine what program it is capturing. ![]() The default seemed to be “region capture” which was capturing both of my monitors at the same time which is not useful at all. The other thing that I needed to do was manually kick off the auto-capture functionality and set it to full screen. Namely, I needed to change the file naming structure because the default option was simply not granular enough for my needs naming the files a sequence of letters: A, B, C, etc. I did have to configure some overrides specific to that hotkey, and you can access those by clicking on the gear next to the hotkey that I configured. However what it does amazingly well… is just start working and do so seamlessly in the background until I am ready for it to stop working. In order to turn it off you have to click through to your system tray pop up that window and hit stop. However, I noticed that I had available to me a “Start Auto Capture Using Last Region” option which will turn on the auto capture dialog to the left and minimize it. I’ve turned all of that off and I largely just use the “Capture Active Window” task hotkey. It is extremely flexible and even offers the ability to upload screenshots as part of the capture process. This works well for me other than on the first of the next month… when I seem to forget that I will need to start looking in a new directory. I like its default structure of naming the files based on the program that is actively in use and then dumping them into monthly directories. I’ve been using an open-source program called ShareX since 2020 to record my screenshots. I think largely I landed on something that works for me in this fashion and while I hinted at it yesterday, I am going to talk a bit more about it today after having played with it. So instead what I posited is something sitting there in the background snapping a screenshot every minute or so, and then later I could review these and cull the dross. ![]() Then there are moments where I am actively fighting and think a screenshot might be cool… but it is inconvenient to break the action and try and capture it. I get deeply engaged and in a focused state… and forget to mash the screenshot key. Good Morning Friends! Yesterday I talked about how I wished there was a tool out there that would just take screenshots at key moments for me. ![]()
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