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How To Post Custom Screenshots For Any Game (Usually!) [Cortex Command]
By Beeps!
This piece will hopefully correctly guide you through taking and posting custom screenshots in steam, including games without an in-game steam access option - through my own steps specifically!

[Note: May require some tweaking or may not work, but I'm 98.25% sure it should.] :/]
   
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] --- UPDATE 2/25/2018 ~~

This is just a disclaimer that this guide REALLY needs some cleanup, and I haven't done that yet honestly. I need to look over and replicate how this all works, because it's been some years since I've tried this again, and the process may not work the same anymore with Steam Updates.

STILL, it seems it works for at least some people at this time, if not most. If you need help, message me or comment and I'll try to get back into the swing on this process and help out however I can. Take care and good luck my friends!





~~ UPDATE 7/19/2013 ~~ [/b]

" I made an important step in terms of being more informative with this guide, and took a note from my "Binding of Isaac" guide example here [http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=119331255], and decided to finally include screenshots of my own folders of successfully uploaded snaps to possibly clarify and help people having problems with this process.

* 1) The first snap is of my remote folder - {LINK REMOVED}

*2 ) This one is of my screenshots folder, along with the Steam screenshot uploader, for 'Cortex Command' - {LINK REMOVED}

* 3 ) This last one is of my thumbnails sub-folder along with the uploader again - {LINK REMOVED}

That's all! ;D "

Hey, this is just a write-up of my own personal steps through the process of posting screenshots from other's examples. I hope this is helps as guide material for some folks. Please forgive any spelling errors or just things that might be lacking here, not much of a guide writer probably haha. Feel free to check my personal Cortex Command screenshots or look up other's steps to this.

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I had to go through a bit of work for it myself, but it's pretty much all in this post:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2764260


----- Basically though, you need to:






--- 1) create a "Cortex Command" folder using it's game ID; 209670, in your steam directory, like this:



[ You can find the game ID from either: 1) - The store web address app html line, (i.e "Cortex Command" being http://store.steampowered.com/app/209670/)

or 2: {Specifically for custom added games} - You can go to your Steam Library and find your game there, and right click on it to "Create Desktop Shortcut"; from there, you can go to the shortcut's properties, and you should find the game's ID in the "url" string line there ]




F:\Steam\userdata\[random number]\760\remote\209670\screenshots


[after the "remote" directory in which you create the new folder, then create the screenshots folder]








--- 2) Within that NEW screenshots folder, THEN create a new folder, named "thumbnails"








--- 3) Now, using whatever screenshots you want to use, put them in them in this new screenshots folder, [For a "Cortex Command" screenshot, you can use "prntscreen" and a paint program to paste images in the screenshot folder.]




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[IMPORTANT!: I believe that your screenshots all-around need to be both in the .JPG format, ALONG WITH the standard file name template -------- [That being this: " 2012-04-26_00001 ", with the first string of numbers corresponding to the date, and the last string to the screenshot taken's personal number; this is how other games that use the default overlay system with screenshots file screenshots, and to be safe and sure you should do the same. ] ------- since Steam uses this format by default, and only my screenshots that are in that .jpg format seem to work honestly, (still having problems myself too haha). So try that and see if it works for you]


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--- 4) After you put them screenshots in, THEN take your exact screenshots, and change their dimensions to (200x125), and then place them in your thumbnails folder; this is in order to have them appear in your screenshot manager when you want to upload them to them steam cloud.




[Note: Other thumbnail screenshots may show AND work with 200x112 dimensions or others for example, but my screenshots ONLY worked after I used 200x125 dimensions for the thumbnails, having then removed the maintained aspect ratio. DO THAT 200x125 yo!]









-- 5) So after THIS, you MAY have to restart The "Cortex Command" in order for it to appear in your screenshot manager "last session". You MIGHT NOT have to do this for them to appear in your screenshot manager, but I did anyway for surety.








--- 6) Restart Steam after this, then open your screenshot manager, perhaps through the library. Look through your screenshots, and you should hopefully see your new screenshots there!



********************************* [NOTE! : I noticed that even after doing ALL OF THIS, my screenshots did not appear in the screenshot manager still! Why?! I DON'T KNOW! But, about a month or so after doing these steps, they just appeared in the cloud of out nowhere, so who knows what might have happened; I think the last factor in all this working might have to deal with your own steam settings or even just an update from Valve with Steam. You might have to play around with things and just wait it out for your screens, but if anything, just follow these steps, and eventually your screenshots should come.] *****************************





That should be it! Enjoy your new screens sonnnnn!



[Also: This should work with any game, all you need is the GAME ID, and create the folder in the remote directory the same way with Isaac, and Voila! You've got screenshots yo.]



- Here's my own example!:











Thanks and have an excellent day! Have a Fishy Stick!
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Beeps!  [author] 25 Mar, 2018 @ 12:33pm 
@commandoby : Thanks for the comment!
commandoby 25 Mar, 2018 @ 10:48am 
Спасибо за руководство! :broflex: Скриншоты действительно появились, но при загрузке их в облако происходит ошибка. :denied:
P.S. ID игры можно посмотреть и в самом клиенте steam в центре сообщества, если отображается строка браузера.
Beeps!  [author] 25 Feb, 2018 @ 7:25pm 
] --- UPDATE 2/25/2018 ~~

This is just a disclaimer that this guide REALLY needs some cleanup, and I haven't done that yet honestly. I need to look over and replicate how this all works, because it's been some years since I've tried this again, and the process may not work the same anymore with Steam Updates.

STILL, it seems it works for at least some people at this time, if not most. If you need help, message me or comment and I'll try to get back into the swing on this process and help out however I can. Take care and good luck my friends!


Posting in comments too in case anyone that even still plays this occasionally needs help haha. Take care!
Beeps!  [author] 19 Jul, 2013 @ 10:07pm 
UPDATE [7/9/13] :

- "Added images links to the top of the guide for quick reference and help concerning what a (mostly) successful output of shots should look like."
Beeps!  [author] 23 May, 2013 @ 4:15pm 
Oh man, you're right haha, the overlay would just be terribly in your face and chopped up haha; if only there was a way to implement this still man without the need for overlay possibly.
Someone64 23 May, 2013 @ 5:20am 
With the way the game renders stuff, you'd need to rewrite the game's rendering engine to get that to work. Also, i play in the lowest resolution possible. Just imagine how overlay would look at that res.
Beeps!  [author] 18 May, 2013 @ 10:31am 
I wonder if any support for this game for steam overlay might be possible in the future with updates to either Steam or Cortex Command? In the mean time, guess this will just have to do.
Someone64 9 Apr, 2013 @ 7:17pm 
Well, it would be hard to make steam overlay when the game doesn't use a certain rendering method. It would be especially hard to make an overlay for a game with such a low resolution, assuming you play in a low resolution.
Beeps!  [author] 9 Apr, 2013 @ 12:26pm 
Tell me about it lol; I have to admit that doing this can be a very tedious process, this took me almost 2 hours I think to even understand what was happening since I learn so slow haha.

But honestly, this is the only way I can think of for uploading for Steam, but that's if you really want to upload to Steam bad, you can always do some way to just get the image out there, but if Valve released support for games like Cortex Command, this would be a more pleasant experience haha.

But I feel you on this one bud ha.
Someone64 9 Apr, 2013 @ 12:57am 
I'm reffering to the method that you put up. I don't wanna have to type the date of each and every one of my screenshots and then restart steam (which takes long as hell).