Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone,

I’d like to ask for some statements about an idea I just had.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could customize the filename of the screenshot? E.g. with variables?

Currently it’s a plain boring gwxxx.jpg (or .bmp). I’m one of those who saves screenshots for different things. But with the name it’s near impossible to find a specific screenshot, if you don’t rename them on the spot.

Now imagine you could give the filename a variable which makes the Zone you’re currently in into the filename. E.g. “Bitterfrost Frontier xxx.jpg” or even better “Bitterfrost Frontier – Black Ice Pass xxx.jpg”

In the option settings, one would be able to set up the filename. Either entering nothing, where it stays with gwxxx.jpg then or using variables like Zone, Area, current Charakter or some more things.

What do you think?

If you’re a screenshot aholic yes. But I don’t take that many so renaming via file manager works for me

I’m not sure what OS you’re running or whatever, but why not find the screenshot you’re looking for by setting the preview icon size to extra large. Then it’s fairly easy to just scroll through looking at images for a certain background or character. When set to extra large, you can easily see whether the shot was taken in a zone with a snowy background, desert, trees, etc, and what character is in the shot. In Windows, it’s under the View menu>Layout in file explorer.

I take a lot of screenshots also, and this always works fine for me. I actually like them being named sequentially because I remember things chronologically and can find the right screenshot folder (I number them sequentially once each one is full) and image by just scrolling through them and looking at the images.