Taking Borderless Screenshots and Videos of the Game

[Tsukihime 1,489]

For the longest time, I’ve been taking screenshots (and more recently, videos) with window borders. What I mean is this:

 

 

Notice how it shows the border and title. This is undesirable for me when I’m taking screenshots. It just isn’t clean. In this tutorial I will show you a way to get rid of it easily without having to edit it out separately.

 

There is a script called Fullscreen++ written by Zeus81, which provides a number of useful window-related functions for the game player itself.

 

The function that I’m interested in is the ability to hide the window border, which the script uses to emulate full-screen mode. You can get an add-on that achieves this here.

 

By using these scripts, you can hide the border and the title of the game window by pressing F8, which results in something like this:

 

 

Now you can hit alt+prnt scrn to capture your game window, and use window-based video capture without having to worry about the border/title.

 

One problem with borderless mode is that you can’t move the window around. Simply press F8 again to show the borders again and re-position your window as needed.

 

Summary

 

If you find yourself using an image or video editor to remove the border and title from the game, it might be useful to just hide it before working with it.

 

(originally posted at HimeWorks)

Edited January 4, 2015 by Tsukihime

[Kayzee 4,033]

You can also just get a screen capture software that let's you only capture the window area... lots of image editing programs have one built in I think. That is a interesting script though!

Edited January 4, 2015 by KilloZapit

[Tsukihime 1,489]

You can also just get a screen capture software that let's you only capture the window area... lots of image editing programs have one built in I think. That is a interesting script though!

Do you have any suggestions?

CamStudio and Windows decided that the "window area" includes the window title and border.

[+ Glasses 606]

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) does it pretty nicely.

[Tsukihime 1,489]

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) does it pretty nicely.

Watched a few videos and I like how it works.

Will likely switch to it since it seems like it will allow me to show the editor and in-game footage at the same time.

[Kayzee 4,033]

It might be called something else too, I haven't really used a lot of screen capturing software. I thought you were just talking about screenshots at first.

[Tsukihime 1,489]

Now that I read the article again, yes it does seem to be focused on screenshots since I only mention video twice and there aren't any examples of any videos.

[+ Retired 274]

Camtasia can only record the 544x416 area if you click inside the box will grab a screenshot at some point

[Radiant Arin 412]

The program "puush" also allows you to drag a portion of an area and screenshot only that area. Clunky, but still effective regardless.

[Tsukihime 1,489]

The program "puush" also allows you to drag a portion of an area and screenshot only that area. Clunky, but still effective regardless.

I don't think I could ever go back to "fixed region" selection when I could just click on my window lol