Save pixel perfect screenshots to a folder of your choice within your project!
Choose which keyboard button you use to take screenshots!
By default, the Print Screen button is used to save screenshots, and the screenshots are saved to a "screenshots" folder in your project.
- Make sure you have the plugin installed and active in the Plugin Manager.
- Begin playtesting, then press the Screenshot Button to save a screenshot!
- By default, the Print Screen keyboard key is the Screenshot Button.
- By default, screenshots will be saved to a "screenshots" folder within your project. (If the screenshots folder does not exist, it will be created when you snap your first screenshot.)
When you snap a new screenshot, it is saved in the Screenshots Folder you have chosen. The name of the file includes numbers representing the following components:
| Component | Format |
|---|---|
| Year | YYYY |
| Month | MM |
| Date (Day of Month) | DD |
| Hour | hh |
| Minute | mm |
| Second | ss |
| Millisecond | ttt |
| Timestamp | Timestamp |
When the above components are pieced together, the filename will appear as follows:
YYYY-MM-DD hh-mm-ss-ttt Timestamp
This structure ensures that every screenshot is saved with a unique filename, and screenshots are always organized chronologically, with earliest screenshots first in the folder, followed by screenshots snapped later.
Note: The timestamp is the number of milliseconds since "Epoch time." Epoch time is Jan. 1, 1970, at 00:00:00 Universal Time (UTC). This is a time standard often used in computing, including JavaScript, which is the coding language used by RPG Maker.
This is the folder (directory) where your screenshots will be saved. By default, screenshots are saved in a "screenshots" folder found inside your game's project folder. You can change the name of the folder where screenshots are saved. You can even use subfolders! Examples:
- screenshots
- screenshots/subfolder
- screenshots/subfolder/deeper-subfolder
- screenshots/subfolder/Screenshots From Full Playthrough
- screenshots/subfolder/Screenshots From Playtesting Cheat Mode!
- screenshots/current-year
- Screenshots with Uppercase S
- img/screenshots You may like to use subfolders to organize your screenshots by time or purpose for which they were taken. Note that forward slashes (and backslashes) will be interpreted as dividing between folders and subfolders. You can use spaces, if you like. You can even use special characters (though this is not recommended and may cause bugs on some operating systems).
You can select the keyboard button you want to use to take screenshots! By default, pressing the "Print Screen" button will save a screenshot. Several other button options are available, including the Numpad + key or the p, i, or s key. Or, you can use a keycode to use any keyboard key! To use a keycode, you must select the "Use Keycode" option, then enter in the number of the JavaScript keycode for the button.
List of Keycodes:
8 Backspace 69 E 105 Numpad 9
9 Tab 70 F 106 Numpad *
13 Enter 71 G 107 NumPad +
16 Shift 72 H 109 NumPad -
17 Ctrl 73 I 110 NumPad .
18 Alt 74 J 111 NumPad /
19 Pause/Break 75 K 112 F1
20 Caps Lock 76 L 113 F2
27 Esc 77 M 114 F3
33 Page Up 78 N 115 F4
34 Page Down 79 O 116 F5
35 End 80 P 117 F6
36 Home 81 Q 118 F7
37 Left Arrow 82 R 119 F8
38 Up Arrow 83 S 120 F9
39 Right Arrow 84 T 121 F10
40 Down Arrow 85 U 122 F11
44 Print Screen 86 V 123 F12
45 Insert 87 W 144 Num Lock
46 Delete 88 X 145 Scroll Lock
48 0 or ) 89 Y 186 ; or :
49 1 or ! 90 Z 187 = or +
50 2 or at symbol 91 Left WinKey 188 , or <
51 3 or # 92 Right WinKey 189 - or _
52 4 or $ 93 Select/Menu 190 . or >
53 5 or % 96 NumPad 0 191 / or ?
54 6 or ^ 97 NumPad 1 192 ` or ~
55 7 or & 98 NumPad 2 219 [ or {
56 8 or * 99 NumPad 3 220 \ or |
57 9 or ( 100 NumPad 4 221 ] or }
65 A 101 NumPad 5 222 ' or "
66 B 102 NumPad 6
67 C 103 NumPad 7
68 D 104 NumPad 8
By default, this is false, so that when you take screenshots of the map, the menu button is absent from the screenshot. This helps your screenshots look even better! However, if you want to see the menu button in your screenshots, you can set this to true.
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v1.0 - 9/12/2020
- Screenshot Snapper released for RPG Maker MZ!
v1.0.1 - 8/30/2023
- This plugin is now free and open source under the MIT license.
Tip: You can get screenshots without this plugin, but the screenshots have several idiosyncracies and drawbacks.
How to get a screenshot without using this plugin:
- When you are in a game or window and press the "Print Screen" key on the keyboard, a screenshot may be automatically copied to the clipboard.
- You can then open any image editor (such as Paint or GIMP) and press Ctrl+V to paste the image!
Idiosyncracies and drawbacks of screenshots obtained without this plugin:
- The image obtained this way will include the window, if obtained while the game was in a window.
- If obtained while the game is fullscreen, the screenshot will include the full image (including black side edges, depending on the size of your screen).
- This kind of screenshot often is not pixel perfect.
- This kind of screenshot may require manual cropping with an art program.
- Images obtained this way cannot remove the menu button in the corner of the image.
In nearly all cases, using this plugin will result in the preferred screenshot appearance. However, in cases where seeing the window itself is desired, this alternate method for obtaining screenshots may be useful.
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