I know on windows Print screen apparently records the screen to a series of images. Is there some corresponding key for OSX?

Since there is no Print Screen button in the sense of for Windows, I would assume this is not the case. If you are trying to make a GIF, I would suggest using a screen recorder, beause the only screenshots you are going to get are Command + Shift + 3.

I know. I was just thinking that since the key serves a different purpose on windows than usual (it takes a series of snapshots as you hold it, right?) that there might be some key on mac too.

And screen recorders don't generate the full quality images, you get blurring and compression. And of course the frames would be out of sync.

Command Shift 3 does the same thing on Mac PrntScrn does on Windows, afaik.

I know Windows can remap system hotkeys/shortcuts, can OSX?

As explained in this topic, the problem is that it doesn't do the same thing. it just records a single screenshot, instead of recording a stream of them, even if you hold the key down.


Yes, remapping system hotkeys is easy, but it doesn't really help much when there isn't a system key that would do what is is needed in the first place.

The stream of screenshots is a function coded into the game when the Print Screen key is pressed. While Command Shift 3 serves the same purpose, it does not execute this purpose in the same fashion.

The screenshot capturing behavior is a product of Cortex Command, not an operating system. The core question here is whether or not there is an accessible function that can be instantiated to create screenshots in a similar manner.

This is something Data really ought to resolve. It's a pretty serious incongruousness that could be fixed.

In theory, given the fact that the function is built into the game, it's just looking for a keypress of PrtScrn. Because the Mac doesn't have that, of course you can't push it. There must be some way to simulate that keypress, though; they're just numbers that the game is taking in.

Exactly, they're must be a function somewhere. I wonder if this can be emulated using lua? I know nothing about any potential image output thingie-bobber in Lua though, so I am just speculatin'

CC's Lua implementation doesn't allow for us to emulate keys, unfortunately. I'm sure there's a way to do it outside of Cortex Command with some other piece of software, though.

We also cannot directly dump the screen, unfortunately. Data hasn't exposed the screen he actually DRAWS to, which kills both drawing primitives and dumping the screen.

We're talking about emulating a PrntScreen keypress on a Mac, FYI.

A function to simulate prntscrn would just be a longcut around directly using a screendump function actually

EDIT heyo can someone with a mac put this into the console real quick for me:
FrameMan:SaveScreenToBMP("mactest");

and then check wherever CC is installed for a file named "mactest000.bmp"

edit again

okay ♥♥♥♥ it because I am such a nice guy

have a screenshot brain
make sure to buy it
press T to take screenshots
99% sure this'll work btw

AWESOME!! That works!! Could you make it some inexpensive prop though, like a bomb that gibs the moment you place it? Sort of like the psy implant, rather than a brain, since I prefer to be able to use a stronger brain case :p

Just use ScriptPath = ScreenShot.rte/Screenshot.lua on whatever brain you want to use (add it anywhere in the .ini code for the brain)