panda Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018  Screenshots! Feb. 17th 2018  News and Updates After several months away from actively working on Intersect JC and I are back doing some work on the engine. We've released Beta 4.8, and are actively working on Beta 5 (if you've been watching JC's stream). Jsonification is close to completion, and next on JC's plate is animations. I've put a full overhaul on database reworking on hold for now (it's really hard to write and write well, and I only have so much patience and concentration at the moment), but that won't prevent the database from being legible.  Screenshots It took me a while, but I noticed in the last day or so that I couldn't take screenshots directly with Intersect, so that's what I've been working on today; and good news! It's already finished! There are a few constraints on the screenshots at the moment. In the future I'd like there to be a configurable screenshots directory, but at the moment they are just being stored in the <Client>/screenshots directory. In addition to this, screenshots are of the game only -- which means no cursor, and no window frame in the screenshot. I know I occasionally like having the window frame in the screenshot for some applications I write, but ultimately this is not in the cards based on how screenshots are being created right now, but I don't think it will be missed. What will probably be missed, is the fact that the cursor will not be present in any of the screenshots (at this time) due to the cursor being rendered by the operating system, and the screenshots only include what is rendered by Intersect. If in the future we enable custom cursors, or if I come up with a way to render a fake cursor only for screenshots (this likely will not be the native cursor though, be forewarned), the cursor will also be visible. One constraint that doesn't exist is the keybind: I've already gone ahead and added a configurable screenshot key, and this comes with a default F12 binding (similar to Steam and several games). People are free to change it to Print Screen if they so choose, but as to not conflict with ShareX, or the actual print screen key I opted to use F12 as the default instead. Some examples of the new screenshot key at work:   What's Next While adding the screenshot key, I also added 8 other keybindings that I still have yet to write the code for. The first keybinding, opening the menu, will default to Escape, and introduce a new menu to the client through which you will be able to access the Options/Settings, the future Exit to Character Selection button (which will be a server-controllable feature), the future Logout/Exit to Main Menu button, and the existing Exit to Desktop button. The icon buttons for Options/Settings and Exit to Desktop will be removed. The next six all have default keybindings, and they are Open Inventory (I), Quests (Q), Character Info (C), Parties (P), Spells (X -- unless someone has a better suggestion since S is already tied to Down by default) and Friends (F). When I implement these 6 I will also introduce a user-configurable setting that defaults to automatically closing any of the other windows when a different one is opened. The last one I think some people may like, but I don't see most people needing it so it doesn't have a default keybinding, is an Open Options/Settings key. This will skip the Menu and open the Options window directly. Other features that I personally have in mind to add soon are import/export capability for keybindings, and configurable MySQL capability to the server, so keep your eyes peeled.  As always, feel free to post comments and questions below! We are excited to hear your thoughts on our progress!  -The Intersect Development Team Weylon Santana, Beefy Kasplant, italo and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khaikaa Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 You two are doing a great work, also I'm so happy watching your streamings, it's so cool to have the possibility of seeing what are you doing. Congrats!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Refur Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoCry Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 2 hours ago, panda said: and configurable MySQL capability to the server, so keep your eyes peeled.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gallighanmaker Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 good job guys
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