Need tips for a CYOA!

[Crimsonbird]

Hello, I'd like to do a CYOA thread, but I need some advice. I noticed that many characters in CYOAs have pelt colors that don't exist in the game, or hold postures that can't be seen in-game (like in Zombiecat Apocalypse), how do I can make that? I'd also like to know how to make all these "extras" who don't alwys have a Clan symbol and normally can't be where they are? And how do you take screenshots?

[❄🐾Luna🐾❄]

I can answer this
For the pelt colors and postures you usually can use paint being as the models are pixel and Paint fills colors in pixel by pixel
For the clan symbols there is two ways, ONE as a rogue you can make a clan and change your symbol when talking to another cat, TWO again you can use paint
Screenshots are easy. On a Windows(The only computer I've ever used) you can just press Print Scrn SysRq, or as I say Print Screen. I do not know how to for a mac or a phone

[Crimsonbird]

1) Just WHAT in Print Screen SysRq!?Is it a key on the keyboard? Where is it?
2)HOW do I use Paint? I don't only know if I've got that on my PC! What are these "models"?

[❄🐾Luna🐾❄]

Print screen indeed is on your keyboard for Windows, look next to Scroll Lock and F12

Paint only appears on Microsoft Computers, just searching Paint will find it.

[Crimsonbird]

Uh...I've got an Acer laptop, so I probaly haven't got paint. But maybe I can install it? And what is "Scroll lock"?(if you say me "it's written on the key", it won't help me, the key names are written in french on my PC). Yeah, I know what you're thinking. You're talking to a big, big, big noob.

[❄🐾Luna🐾❄]

Okay, so at the top of the keyboard there is Esc, then next to it is F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F8, F9, F10, F11 and F12 and next to them is Print Screen and next to that is Scroll Lock and Pause Break

[Crimsonbird]

Uh...I think my keyboard isn't the same AT ALL than yours,after F12, there are keys named "Impécr Syst", "Pause Attn", "Inser", and "Suppr", I pressed these four ones AND all the "F number" keys, and nothing happened that looked like taking a screenshot...

[Citrine]

No, your keyboard is pretty much the same, just in French. The top row with the keys shouldn't be different at all, just some of the actual letters on the keyboard are switched (I died while writing on a French keyboard in France because I kept pressing 'q' instead of 'a' pfft). It should be "Impècr Syst" that you have to press to get a screenshot. You dont get any notification that you took one, though.

Instead, just head over to paint and see if you can paste anything. You'll probably end up pasting the screenshot if it worked.

I have an Acer laptop, too, so yeah.

[Crimsonbird]

YEAH! IT WORKS! Thanks so much! Actually, I found that Impécr Syst was the screenshot key by searching on Internet, but I believed it didn't work. All that I want to know, now, is how to take my WC:UT screenshots and turn them into CYOA pictures, because I just discovered I had Paint on my computer, and did understand almost nothing of what Luna the reindeer explained about that. If you know, explain me, PLEASE!

[Citrine]

I mean, it's a little hard-ish to explain over text pfft.
Either way, it depends on how you want to set your cyoa up. You could either just use the screenshot you took of the game and use that (in which case, you just have to cut it down to the size needed in paint) or you edit it. Basically, a picture is made up of pixels, which is why it was suggested that you use paint, because it's easy to color pixel by pixel on it (though, it's certainly possible on other programs as well, but I also use paint when I edit sprites or such things).

Though, of course, there's also the possibility to just select some of the grass, trees, whatever, copy it, and paste it onto a new picture to make something completely different from what you can find in the game. (Which is what Nav's doing with their cyoa, I'm pretty sure).

I'd say editing is a learn by doing thing, so just play around with paint a little?

[Crimsonbird]

Yeah! I'll try! I just take a screenshot on my game and I try!

[❄🐾Luna🐾❄]

Also, my ways weren't wrong and confusing, you just have a different keyboard then mine. And no, I didn't take what you said offensively (Though my friend would have)

[Crimsonbird]

Sorry, I did not realize this was offencing... Just another question, now, when I'll have got the pictures on my PC, how do I post them on the forum?

[Citrine]

Well, after you've saved the picture, you need to upload it somewhere. You could use Ezimba, Tinypic, or something like Imgur. There are other sites you can upload it to too, of course.

Basically just follow the instructions on the site to upload it, then get the link of the picture and put it between these tags.

[img]Picutre url here![/img]

[Crimsonbird]

I mean, I've got my screenshot saved on my laptop, how can I post it, if it's not on Internet?