Guild Wars 2

Hello there,

I was wondering if in the future (hopefully the not-to-distant future) if perhaps the game could support PNG screenshots rather than JPG or BMP. I know that you can add the command -bmp to the properties and it takes them in BMP but those are enormous files and JPG just aren’t aesthetically as attractive as a BMP or PNG.

PNG’s are crystal clear, without being enormous files and if given the option I’d definitely like to use that for screenshots.

So I don’t know if there is already a way to do it, but if there’s not, I would definitely suggest that it become an option in the future.

I’ll +1 on this, I much prefer png files to jpg.

I’m shocked more people don’t want PNG. As someone who works a lot on the web (I run a gaming blog) not having PNG’s blows and yeah I can change them in photoshop but that is an extra, unnecessary step, if they can just make it PNG-enabled.

A 5 MB BMP is still going to be around a 2-3 MB PNG whereas it’ll only be a 200-500 KB JPG. As for getting it implemented, I’d imagine it’d only be done if one of the devs had some free time and was bored.

If you want PNGs though, you could just BMP them then batch convert them using something like IrfanView.

Healix.5819:

A 5 MB BMP is still going to be around a 2-3 MB PNG whereas it’ll only be a 200-500 KB JPG. As for getting it implemented, I’d imagine it’d only be done if one of the devs had some free time and was bored.

If you want PNGs though, you could just BMP them then batch convert them using something like IrfanView.

I’m saying it would be nice to have an option to do it via the command line like we have currently with -BMP.

That being said, the batch convert is currently the only option I have and what I plan to do until they, hopefully, give us the option.

JPG is meant for pictures not graphics and often makes game screenshots look like crap, which is why I’d like PNG support.