Help:Screenshots

   = Get rid of extra windows =

Oftentimes, you want to take a screenshot of the whole screen or a very large part of it, and you may have a window or even several windows blocking the view. Since those windows may include irrelevant or private/confidential information, it's a very good idea to get rid of them before making a screenshot you can post on Wikia. There are two ways you can go here to get rid of the extra windows.

== Use Next UI Mode == 

There are three ''UI modes'' in Everquest II: transparent, opaque and no-windows mode. By default, you toggle the next UI mode by pressing the F10 key. No-windows mode is best for taking screenshots, unless you want to have titles and names on top of NPC or PC heads.

== Toggle off all windows ==

The problem with the no-windows UI mode is that it also hides things like NPC and player names, titles and the like from top of their heads where they usually appear. If you're unhappy with this, you might simply want to hide all of your windows.

To hide all of your windows, you can use the default toggles - See the Controls menu on your Options window, and, further, the Window Keys submenu to see how to hide your windows). The default is the F10 key, which cycles through transparent windows, opaque windows, and no windows.

An alternative is to use ''slash commands''. Slash commands can be typed from your chat window preceded by a slash. Their main benefit is that you can enter them as macro commands or type them in a file and then call the commands in the file file from a macro or your chat window.

=== Using a file macro to hide all of your windows ===

One typical configuration to hide all of your windows could be as follows:

First, make a file, called ''C:\Program Files\Sony\Everquest II\macros\hide_windows.txt'' (for example). In the file, enter the following commands:
 hide_window MainHUD.Character
 hide_window MainHUD.Player
 hide_window MainHUD.Target
 hide_window MainHUD.ImpliedTarget
 hide_window MainHUD.ConnectionStats
 hide_window Journals.ActiveQuest
 hide_window MainHUD.GroupMembers
 togglechat
 hide_window MainHUD.DetrimentalEffects
 hide_window MainHUD.Maintained
 hide_window MainHUD.Effects
 hide_window MainHUD.Clock
 hide_window MainHUD.Experience
 hide_window MainHUD.Compass
 hide_window MainHUD.Pet
 hide_window MainHUD.StartButton

After this,
# Make a macro that executes the command ''/do_files_command C:\Program Files\Sony\Everquest II\macros\hide_windows.txt''
# Drag the macro to your hotkey bar if you like.
# Execute the macro to hide most of the typical windows you may have on your screen. You will need to manually hide your hotkey bar (Alt-H is a common key binding for this). You will also need to drag your Chat Window off-screen or nearly off-screen. The Chat Window will always reappear when you take your screenshot to tell you that is's taking a screenshot.

=== Using a file macro to show all of your windows again ===

To get your windows to show again, make a file that might be called ''C:\Program Files\Sony\Everquest II\macros\show_windows.txt'' (for example)
 show_window MainHUD.Character
 show_window MainHUD.Player
 show_window MainHUD.Target
 show_window MainHUD.ImpliedTarget
 show_window MainHUD.ConnectionStats
 show_window Journals.ActiveQuest
 show_window MainHUD.GroupMembers
 togglechat
 show_window MainHUD.DetrimentalEffects
 show_window MainHUD.Maintained
 show_window MainHUD.Effects
 show_window MainHUD.Clock
 show_window MainHUD.Experience
 show_window MainHUD.Compass
 show_window MainHUD.Pet
 show_window MainHUD.StartButton

After this,
# Make a macro that executes the command ''/do_files_command C:\Program Files\Sony\Everquest II\macros\show_windows.txt''
# Execute the macro.
# Manually toggle your hotkey bar again.
# Drag the show windows macro to your hotkey bar if you like.
# Drag your main chat window back on-screen.