Friday, October 4, 2013

Taking Screenshots in Skyrim

Every wonder how people take those mesmerising shots within Skyrim? I did, which is why I poked around Skyrim's .ini files, which led me to these steps:

  1. Navigate to your documents folder, then my games. You should see a Skyrim folder - click it.
  2. Here, you're looking for Skyrim.ini.
  3. Within this file, you'll see a slew of categories ranging from display to water and general. We're looking for display. Insert a line break after your SD3DDevice and input bAllowScreenshot=1. In this case, 1 is a boolean where 1 signifies on and 0 signifies off. This line will allow in game screenshots through use of the print screen button. Save this document and load up Skyrim.
 You may also want to remove the HUD. To accomplish this, hit the tilde key '~' and type: tm and press enter. Hit the tilde key again to resume gameplay. When finished, hit the tilde key again but note that the console menu won't display. This is because we've disabled ALL menus. Type tm again to restore the original display.

**All screenshots will save in Skyrim's root directory (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\skyrim), i.e. the folder with SkyrimLauncher and TESV.

 Have fun!

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