# Adding Screenshots to Your Level

By : Matt Murphy utcity@planetunreal.com

UT City

FOREWORD:

I am suspecting that you have some sort of level ready.

DIRECTIONS:

Start up the Unreal Tournament. Once you've done that go to Player Setup and choose play as spectator. Once you've got that settled start a practice session and choose either 1 or 0 bots. Now start the game and fly around until you find a good spot for a picture. Once there press the F9 key. Now close Unreal Tournament and start up UnrealED. Also start up an image program you have such as Paint Shop Pro, Adobe Photoshop, etc, (NOT MsPaint!). Now, in your image program create a new image that's 256x256 and 72 resolution. Now open up the most recent screenshot you've taken in your UnrealTournament/System directory (Files are named "Shot0001.bmp" for example). Choose the one with the highest number because that's your most recent one. Open that file and copy it to your new file. Now it's going to be larger than 256x256 so either scale it down or resize it in MsPaint. Once you've done that save it as "screenshot.bmp" (or "screenshot.pcx")<--(Without the quotes). Save it in your UnrealTournament/Textures directory. I prefer saving it as a bmp file because it looks better on my computer. Now go to UnrealED and click on the import button on the bottom right side of the screen. Open up your file in the textures directory. Now in the name box put "screenshot" (without the quotes), in the group put "None" (without the quotes), in the package box put "MyLevel" (without the quotes) and uncheck Generate Mipmaps in the Properties section. Then press Ok. Now in the texture viewbar you should see a smaller version of your screenshot. Good. Now press the F6 button to bring up the level properties dialog. Go into LevelInfo, then select your screenshot on the right and then where it says Screenshot as one of the LevelInfo properties, select it. Then press use and it should say something like this: Texture'MyLevel.Screenshot' . If it does then save your map and test it out in the pracitice session dialog in the game to see if it's there.

CONCLUSION:

You should now be able to make a screenshot image for your level.

OTHER:

Questions/Comments email me at utcity@planetunreal.com

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