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CGMZ Screenshots
🕑 Added 2021-05-12 16:29:28 +0000 UTC
Hi all,
This plugin adds a screenshot functionality to the game. When pressing the Print Screen button on the keyboard (or plugin command), the plugin will automatically save a screenshot of the current game screen to the users hard drive. It will automatically create the screenshot folder in the game directory and save the image there in the format of "Screenshot_year-month-day_timestamp".
This could be used either for development in getting images of the game screen or by players once your game is released so they can easily create screenshots of your game!
**Note** that due to security issues with saving files directly to user hard drives on web-hosted games (you wouldn't want random websites to be able to save files to your hard drive), the plugin will instead prompt the user to download the file rather than automatically saving it behind the scenes.
For future developments, I am considering adding in the ability to take a screenshot of the entire map. However I am not sure on this since that feature would probably be restricted to only the developer as a development tool and might be better suited for its own plugin. RPG Maker also includes the ability to save maps as images via the editor, so this feature might be redundant. I am also considering adding in an on-screen confirmation that a screenshot was taken, though this is difficult due to allowing screenshots in all scenes. Let me know if you would like to see some additional features for this plugin or if you would use the mapshot/confirmation features.
Update 11/25: This plugin is now in beta. I have decided to make the mapshot feature written about previously its own plugin since its more of a developer tool while this is meant to be used by players. With beta, this plugin now allows you control over the background of the screenshot (by default it is black). This is the color you will see in the screenshot if your screenshot would have any transparency (such as a tile that has no image on the map).
