How does one... Take a screenshot?

[redmario14]

I've been trying to for a while, but I can't seem to take a screenshot. If anyone has any info on how taking a screenshot works, it would be much appreciated.

[Spartwo]

press f1 then transfer them from the screenshot subfolder in ksp to your picture library.

[Rune]

On windows, it's F1. To make the UI go away, F2. To make the target's off the HUD, F3. There's a key map in the wiki.

Rune. Wish someone had shown me this page when I started.

[redmario14]

press f1 then transfer them from the screenshot subfolder in ksp to your picture library.

Ok. Thank you for the information. I was really confused because I couldn't figure out how to take screenshots.

[Custard Donut (In Space)]

F1 to send a screenshot to yuor Kerbal folder, F12 if you are on Steam and would like to upload it to the community hub.

[not-a-cylon]

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Edited June 15, 2013 by not-a-cylon
posted to wrong thread! oops

[shamil]

thank you:sticktongue:

[Iansoreta]

thank you:sticktongue:

If some newbies are new to game and don't know everything, please do not close this thread. Instead, keep this open to newbies, because nobody knows everything and nobody's perfect.

[Vanamonde]

You brought up a 10-month-old thread just to ask us not to lock it? Though as it happens, there's no need to since the info in it is still current. So, wish granted!

[Tim_the_Plumber]

Hi,

I'm playing in steam and F1 or F2 or F3 don't work. At least not in the situation I am currently in.

I have flown my first plane around over Kerbal. Done it for an hour or so of real time. Splashed down and it won't allow me to finish the mission and recover the craft. I would like to take a screen shot for you but no joy. Won't abort, go to space center or anything. Just bobs about looking sad.

Is steam totally new to you and have you loaded a very old copy of the game into steam or something?

P.S. F12 takes screen shots, it says, but I am now locked in the IVA mode which seems to be utterly useless and un-exitable so no real help and I can't get to the files because I'm lock in.....

Edited February 22, 2015 by Tim_the_Plumber

[GiantTank]

Hi,

I'm playing in steam and F1 or F2 or F3 don't work. At least not in the situation I am currently in.

I have flown my first plane around over Kerbal. Done it for an hour or so of real time. Splashed down and it won't allow me to finish the mission and recover the craft. I would like to take a screen shot for you but no joy. Won't abort, go to space center or anything. Just bobs about looking sad.

Is steam totally new to you and have you loaded a very old copy of the game into steam or something?

P.S. F12 takes screen shots, it says, but I am now locked in the IVA mode which seems to be utterly useless and un-exitable so no real help and I can't get to the files because I'm lock in.....

Press "C" to get out of IVA.

[Tim_the_Plumber]

Thanks.

[Starwhip]

You brought up a 10-month-old thread just to ask us not to lock it? Though as it happens, there's no need to since the info in it is still current. So, wish granted!

That's not something you see every day!

Useful things to know for taking screenshots:

V: Switches camera. There are several modes which might please you.

The arrow keys work for rotation.

"+" and "-" zoom in and out.

Holding down the mouse wheel pans the camera when you move the mouse. (Why is there no key to reset this? )

"M" goes to map view, and comes back if you're already there.

"C" goes to IVA and back.

Changing to map view, or IVA and back, might fix the panned camera. I have not tried it, nor noticed it before, but I haven't been paying attention to that in particular.

[TheMoonRover]

You may also have to hold Fn or FN to use the F1, F2 etc. keys. This is dependent on your keyboard layout and not the game itself. On laptops, you will generally need to.

[Starwhip]

You may also have to hold Fn or FN to use the F1, F2 etc. keys. This is dependent on your keyboard layout and not the game itself. On laptops, you will generally need to.

Yes, I used to have to do this. But there is a solution: Go into your computer's BIOS on startup, generally F2 or F10 (Really spam these the moment you hit the power button!), and there's an "Action Groups" option. Turn it off to switch the functionality: Now, F1 will do what the program running says F1 will do, and Function + F1 will do whatever the computer says it should do, in my case, bring up Windows Help. Totally useless.

[Pecan]

In fact, more usefully than keeping an old thread alive, all the keybindings are listed on the wiki and people should look there: http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Controls