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show player names and hide context messages on screenshot

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 5:24 pm
by _Bluestone_
This is pretty much 2 suggestions but they both address the take_screenshot command.
TL;DR
Add an option to the take_screenshot command to display player names and hide context messages.
show player names
What?
There's currently no way to display and render the player names on a screenshot.
How?
Add a font size option to the take_screenshot command which renders the player names on top of the screenshot in the given font size (default is 0/off).
Why?
To show where people are on a screenshot.
hide context messages
What?
If you mine anything, move items, or get an error, it gets displayed as a little pop-up text.
The take_screenshot command still renders these messages. (See screenshot below)
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There's currently no way to hide context messages on a screenshot.
How?
Disable these messages from being rendered by the take_screenshot command.
Why?
To get clear screenshot without these messages.

Re: show player names and hide context messages on screenshot

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 8:41 pm
by ssilk
https://wiki.factorio.com/Console -> screenshot command

This feature is also very modable (can print anything in before screenshot) - so that I'm sure this will not be changed for vanilla.