[solved] Renpy-launcher (development) - change default storage for screenshots?

[Errilhl]

For some reason, Renpy launcher defaults to saving the screenshots taking while developing in the actual runtime folder... instead of, like... the My pictures folder, My documents/renpy-screenshots or whatever else would make a bit more sense. You don't store anything in program-folders!

Is it possible to change this behavior? A setting somewhere? Or is this hardcoded into the launcher?

[RicharDann]

Screenshots are saved in the sdk folder only if testing (with the launcher), when you build and release the game screenshots will be saved in the same folder where the game's executable is.

Anyways there's this variable called config.screenshot_pattern, wich determines the full name of the image including filepath. So you can add this somewhere in your code, for example, in your script.rpy file, to specify a path yourself:

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define config.screenshot_pattern = "C:\Users\Public\Pictures\screenshot%04d.png"

This would save the image in Pictures folder on Windows 7 onwards, but I don't know what it would do on a different OS or platform.

[Errilhl]

Thanks - I will test it out.

That worked perfectly! Thanks a lot. Still think it would be nice to have a specific setting for the development / launcher console, so that this was kept separate from the in-game logic, but it works. Now I just need to remember to take it out when I'm packaging

[komehara]

Maybe you could check config.developer before setting config.screenshot_pattern? I guess a define won't work in this case, but you could use a Python assignment instead.