Elwood
New Member
Per Drysc:
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"
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"
