I did some quick searches on this, and I can't seem to find this anywhere else, but if I am wrong, don't hold back on correcting me.
In addition, this suggestion isn't merely for CK2, but basically all of Paradox's games. But since CK2 is the next one in line, I am going to suggest it here. Though, hopefully it may be picked up for one of your other games soon afterwards.
Because, if I have to brutally honest, taking screenshots in Paradox games is a hassle. It's well established that the games simply uses Windows' screenshot feature and slaps it in a file. Go ahead, use F11 while in windowed mode. You get the desktop too!
While not entirely inconvenient, Paradox games enjoys a heavy dose of AAR writing (and yes, screenshot'ing), something which the forums are not holding back on supporting. But the games themselves, however, aren't really the biggest supporter of this.
Therefore, I propose an AAR mode. It basically grants you a better screenshot environment, like taking quick screenshots of popups, menus and other specific areas on the screen, that you can define and are of course missing on the end results. In addition, you could assign an AAR screenshot folder for each one, which the game would gently fill up as you went along.
That is not to say the game itself should rid you of the good old fashioned F11 function, but perfect it a little. And also being able to take a big screenshot of more map than you can actually see (I am not talking worldmap dump a la F12, but more when you want to see a country that spans the screen and still want it all in the in-game beauty).
I realise - of course - that all these features would do would simply be erasing the classic hours spend in Paint, GIMP and/or Photoshop for cropping and sizing the screens. But generally speaking, I would rather have the writers focusing on writing than on tireless work.
In addition, the games could also quickly save to more suitable screenshot formats than BMP or whatever for internet usage.
So that's my suggestion, I wouldn't be surprised if old Paradoxians are going to get out their canes and shout 'get off my lawn' as the entirety of cropping screenshots and reformatting into suitable formats is the entire fun of writing AARs.
'Back in my day, we caved it in bronze!'
In addition, this suggestion isn't merely for CK2, but basically all of Paradox's games. But since CK2 is the next one in line, I am going to suggest it here. Though, hopefully it may be picked up for one of your other games soon afterwards.
Because, if I have to brutally honest, taking screenshots in Paradox games is a hassle. It's well established that the games simply uses Windows' screenshot feature and slaps it in a file. Go ahead, use F11 while in windowed mode. You get the desktop too!
While not entirely inconvenient, Paradox games enjoys a heavy dose of AAR writing (and yes, screenshot'ing), something which the forums are not holding back on supporting. But the games themselves, however, aren't really the biggest supporter of this.
Therefore, I propose an AAR mode. It basically grants you a better screenshot environment, like taking quick screenshots of popups, menus and other specific areas on the screen, that you can define and are of course missing on the end results. In addition, you could assign an AAR screenshot folder for each one, which the game would gently fill up as you went along.
That is not to say the game itself should rid you of the good old fashioned F11 function, but perfect it a little. And also being able to take a big screenshot of more map than you can actually see (I am not talking worldmap dump a la F12, but more when you want to see a country that spans the screen and still want it all in the in-game beauty).
I realise - of course - that all these features would do would simply be erasing the classic hours spend in Paint, GIMP and/or Photoshop for cropping and sizing the screens. But generally speaking, I would rather have the writers focusing on writing than on tireless work.
In addition, the games could also quickly save to more suitable screenshot formats than BMP or whatever for internet usage.
So that's my suggestion, I wouldn't be surprised if old Paradoxians are going to get out their canes and shout 'get off my lawn' as the entirety of cropping screenshots and reformatting into suitable formats is the entire fun of writing AARs.
'Back in my day, we caved it in bronze!'
