[RESOLVED] In game screenshots?

[mylesb]

Hey guys, I searched the thread but nothing really answered my question. Bascially I have created a create a character flash app, it works great except I don't know how to export the finished character as an image file. Basically the games characters will only be portraits of faces. I want to use my create a char as a design tool to create the characters for the game, I want to export those created characters as image files and then have those images load when I call them in the actual game itself. I will be using the same create a character system in the actual game itself for when the player creates his character at the start. Is it possible to also save the character in game so that I can use the portrait throughout the game without having it called externally.

cheers,
Myles Blasonato.

[Ray Beez]

OHHH! Your name is Myles! :-)

There is no built-in way to do what you're asking for. There is a complicated way that involves "bitmapdata", and streaming the data to a PHP script which then saves the data as a JPG or PNG file.

[mylesb]

Yeah thanks for the answer but I found a way to do it.
You store a movieclip symbol with the created character to a bitmapData object and then attach it to a blank symbol to show it again later on. Works great. To save my image for designing I could just use a screencapture program and make the bg transparent in photoshop. It's still quicker than redrawing all characters.

Cheers,
Myles Blasonato.
The Threads solved by the way.

[T1ger]

If your characters are made up by predefined movieclips/sprites (as opposed to drawing in flash), you can just save which sprites are used, and the x, y, rotation and scale properties of them to a database, and then load them into the game later

Then you also could make people use or even rate other people's characters

[mylesb]

That's right, that's a way that I was going to do it but I wanted a more sophisticated way to do colour as well which of course can't be saved to a database that easily.