Changing SS's back to TGA files

This is more for my own reference later, when I remember to change my default back to TGA and if anyone else wanted to know too. (Higher quality)

 

I prefer higher quality SS's. =D

 

The default screenshot option was indeed changed to JPEG, and the reason mainly being because people didn't know what the hell a TGA was. Windows wouldn't open it, if they didn't give up right then and there they would need to find a viewer that could even open them and then probably need to find out how to convert them so they could upload them somewhere or share them. It was just kind of a pain for a lot of people, and we don't want to make screenshots a painful issue.

 

We did however, as mentioned earlier in the thread, provide a way for players to change back to the TGA format if they want to take the higher quality screenshots.

 

Open your config.wtf file found in your \World of Warcraft\WTF\ folder (default C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WTF\) with WordPad and add the below line at the bottom of the file. Save it, close it, and then you're taking TGA screenshots again. You'll need to do this without the game running of course.

 

SET screenshotFormat "tga"

 

You can go back to jpg by deleting the line or using "jpg". (Apparently "png" does work, but only on Macs.)

 

You can also change the quality of a screenshot by using the below line, with a value between 1 and 10. 10 being the highest quality but also the largest file size.

 

SET screenshotQuality "10"

They were never TIF, Matt

 

TGA is for the win. screw compression. JPG is FTL. Anyone that doesn't have PS to view them in .... well... forget them.

Oops yeah, I was working with TIF files today, I meant to say TGA. Still, needed to mark this down so I can remember how to change it later. Skrew JPG's for our Front page updates! =P

 

Nvm thats what I end up saving them as... >>

 

Save as PNG instead then =p

 

but either way, I'd rather convert the raw image to jpg myself then have wow save it as that. Who knows how much they're compressing. I guess I could just compare it for myself though. /lazy

/bump for Miharu