MTM2 Snap "Screenshot Utility" by METH

METH · Post by **METH** » Thu May 27, 2004 8:55 am

MTM2 Snap was designed and made to be able to take more than 1 screenshot at a time and save them in a folder as .BMP files. Unlike the games "GOLD" mode, which saves them as a .RAW file. Now you dont have to mess with the .RAW sizes or any of that.

Just start MTM2 Snap, Start your game and press your PrintScreen key. Take as many screenshots as you want. They will all be saved in the utilities ScreenShots folder. Thats all there is to it.

This utility was first thought of by me when I saw all the guys that put coverage up for Racing leagues. These guys have to take tons of pics. So I decided to create a utility that would make there jobs alot faster.

I hope all you guys like my first program, ALOT of time and testing went into it.

I cannot take all the credit for this program though. These guys helped me out with alot of testing,designing and worst of all, putting up with me.
A BIG Thanks to,
Phineus
CH_2005
Malibu350
WinterKill

Thanks, and Enjoy
METH
METH@MTM2.Com

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NIR_PitBull · Post by **NIR_PitBull** » Thu May 27, 2004 9:39 am

AWESOME AWESOME, as my boy Hank Hill would say {I'll tell ya what}. Thats about as easy as it gets people. That boy IS right, all most what Hank would say. LoL. Meth you Da' man. Thank you and your posse.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 11:45 pm

Glad you like it.
Version 1.1 is in the making. A bunch of new features added so far and a bunch more to come.

METH · Post by **METH** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 11:47 pm

Ooops, that was me. ^^^
Not sure how that happened,,lol

RobbyH14 · Post by **RobbyH14** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:39 am

I am real late in checking this and Trackview out, but hey, today's the day

. Thanks for the utility, this may actually make me get off my butt and do NTNT coverage if it's as easy as everyone says.

Is there any way for version 1.1 to save them as .jpgs instead of .bmps? I know I'll have to re-save all the files as .jpg so I can upload them to my site for coverages...most don't take the .bmp extension. 'least mine doesn't.

**EDIT** After doing some testing, the only other cool thing to see would be to be able to shoot sequences...say, of a cool rollover or something. I keep having to rewind the replay to do that because it doesn't shoot quite quick enough to catch a sequence. Either way, I can't wait for version 1.1, and you've still made it a bit easier on us coverage guys. Thanks.

ZOtm_BigDOGGe · Post by **ZOtm_BigDOGGe** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 4:43 pm

Is there any way for version 1.1 to save them as .jpgs instead of .bmps?

I've always taken BMP snapshots myself, since I nearly ALWAYS do some post-processing of my snaps before displaying them, and shooting JPGS right off the bat means less picture quality due to compression....I save the jpg conversion for the very last step.

I haven't tried this utility out because I've used Hypersnap DX4 all these years. It lets you take snapshots in different formats (like jpg) and it will do rapid-succession shots as well. I paid $30 long ago to register it, but the investment proved well worthwhile.

METH · Post by **METH** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:07 pm

As far as JPGs go, I dont see that being added any time soon, if at all. I looked into it, but there is 2 much stuff that I dont understand about converting pic formats.

I might be able to fix the the delay problem, Ill look into that.

ZOtm_BigDOGGe · Post by **ZOtm_BigDOGGe** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 12:05 am

Is there any way for version 1.1 to save them as .jpgs instead of .bmps? I know I'll have to re-save all the files as .jpg so I can upload them to my site for coverages

I may have a solution for Robby....would a batch converter for converting several BMPs into Jpegs all in one shot help?

http://atlantic.photoisland.com/photosharing/jpgconv.html

PhotoIsland JPG Batch File Converter

In a single click, you can automatically convert all your images into web-ready JPEG format.
Batch converts: bmp, tif, gif, jpg, tga, pcd, pcx & flashpix file types.
You set the compression ratio.
You decide on the image resolution for the result.

Post by **Phineus** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 12:26 am

PSP has a built in batch converter.

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Of course, if you don't use psp, then something like PhotoIsland would probably work fine.

RobbyH14 · Post by **RobbyH14** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 3:30 pm

Neat-o, you learn something new every day. Yes, I use PSP and even used to use Hypersnap. I actually used PSP's capture mode for the screenshots before I started using this, and it's usually very good with sequences, but the problem was that you had to re-save everything into one folder and it took longer. Boom, with the nifty utility METH here created, it's simplified one more step.

Batch conversion sounds real good as a solution to that part of the problem...had never known what it was for or bothered to look.

As for the other part, METH...if you could fix the delay as you said, it'd be PERFECT. I did a few 2:00 freestyle runs with your program from replays and it yielded around 3-6 shots each time, when in reality I took around 15 or so, just to give you an idea. Not meaning to knock it at all, but merely suggest that if this were to be fixed...it'd be even better. Hope you understand, and I'll be ecstatic if something like this can be worked out...

who knows, may even help me get off my butt and finish a few hundred coverages I have lying around for NTNT

. Thanks a lot, to everyone.