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How to take good screenshots  

Postby Mohamed » Sat Nov 07, 2020 5:51 pm

So I wanted to know how some Flightgear users take great screenshots

Can you give some advices

Please ? :oops:
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Re: How to take good screenshots

Postby erik » Sat Nov 07, 2020 10:37 pm

That question has come up before. So there is a wiki page about it:
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:Make_nice_screenshots

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Re: How to take good screenshots

Postby erik » Sun Nov 29, 2020 9:12 am

Oh, maybe not everyone knows it but FlightGear comes with a built-in screenshot function: the F3 key.

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Re: How to take good screenshots

Postby Johan G » Sun Nov 29, 2020 12:58 pm

It might be of help that you can select the screenshot directory with Main Menu > File > Screenshot Directory.
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