Taking screenshots?

[The Space Core]

I just landed a station on minimus and I wanted to post an image of it, but my steam key for screenshots isn't taking screenshots.

Does ksp use a different key for screenshots or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

Edited October 25, 2015 by The Space Core

[Van Disaster]

F1. They'll go in the KSP directory under Screenshots.

F2 toggles the gui.

[The Space Core]

Ah thanks.

[Alshain]

The steam key should still work, but it will also turn on the aerodynamic overlay. So, there aren't many screenshots on Steam these days that don't have the yellow text "Aerodynamic Overylay Enabled" on it. (Way to go Squad)

[The Space Core]

AS a followup question, how do you find the KSP directory on a mac, Im in application support...

[Just Jim]

The steam key should still work, but it will also turn on the aerodynamic overlay. So, there aren't many screenshots on Steam these days that don't have the yellow text "Aerodynamic Overlay Enabled" on it. (Way to go Squad)

Yeah, I'm on steam, and F12 works, but I re-assigned the Aerodynamic Overlay Enabled real fast...

[PnDB]

AS a followup question, how do you find the KSP directory on a mac, Im in application support...

Screenshots in OSX are saved under /Applications/KSP/Screenshots and are numbered sequentially.

[paul23]

Uh are you all missing the "print screen" button on your keyboard?

It copies the screen to the clipboard and can hence be pasted wherever you want.

[StarStreak2109]

Yeah, but then you'll have to pause KSP, ALT+TAB to the image editing program of your choice, save the screenie and the ALT+TAB back to KSP. I find it quite annoying. But then again, I found out about that F1 key only a few weeks ago myself (*feelsdumb*), so before I did it just the same. Shame only that my MacBook doesn't have a PrtScr key (running it under Windows...).

[Starhawk]

Obligatory link to the Wiki Page of Stock Controls.

Learn it. Know it. Play it.

Happy landings!

[klesh]

Yeah, I'm on steam, and F12 works, but I re-assigned the Aerodynamic Overlay Enabled real fast...

I did the opposite, and moved my steam screenshot key to Pause/Break, which is the most upper-right key I have available. Works like a charm across all games.

[Alshain]

I did the opposite, and moved my steam screenshot key to Pause/Break, which is the most upper-right key I have available. Works like a charm across all games.

I did that with F1 for KSP for a while, it would then take screenshots in both locations at the same time. Problem is, all the other Steam games expect it to be F12 and play nice with Steam by not assigning crap to F12. If Squad wanted to do it right, since Steam is the only platform the release on that does that, they should change their own default screenshot key to F12 too. Not a lot of harm in taking screenshots twice, unless you are low on drive space, but really hard drives are cheap.

[Snark]

By the way, if you're using F1 to take screenshots, you may want to become friends with F2 as well. That toggles all UI elements (navball, staging UI, altitude display, etc.) on/off, so you don't have them cluttering your screenshots if you don't want them.