drobson Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Maybe I'm just gettin' old, but I've forgotten how to add a thumbnail pic to my add-on aircraft. I have both FSX disc and FSX Steam. Steam edition will automatically take a thumbnail when pressing the F12 key, but I can't make them show in the aircraft selection menu, even though I've copied them to the particular aircraft. Probably something simple, and I'm just flat missing it. Thanks, Darrell [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Name file thumbnail.jpg [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Just curious, is F12 "take a screenshot"? Same as "v" is in the box edition? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Actually, igf the renaming doesn't work, have a try with autothumbnail. Here's the starter post of a thread about it. (plus link) jandjfrench Default Autothumbnail with FSX Steam and disc versions Hi, Prior to installing FSX:SE Autothumbnail worked correctly with FSX disc version. After installing Steam and enabling Autothumbnail by editing EXE.xml it works in Steam but not in FSX disc. When I try to capture an image in FSX disc there's the normal, fraction of a second freeze but no thumbnail is created. Anyone else run into this? And if so....? Jim F. https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?289222-Autothumbnail-with-FSX-Steam-and-disc-versions (in the thread also a way is found to use Autothumbnail for fsx box, and alternating for fsx steam, by swapping out the screenshot folder before starting the game. In case you would want it for Box as well) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Don't expect you forgot this part, but they need to be in the correct texture folder.;) (Or maybe two copies of the same aircraft installed in steam. Different folder name, but same aircraft? Thinking you are flying one, actually flying the other, and therefore putting thumbnail in wrong folder?) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Oops, I should have added something. The original version of Autothumbnail (here or simviation) does not work in win7 and above I think. There is a version in the Avsim library that does. .exe only. I think I installed the original version and them replaced the .exe with the one from Avsim. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StringBean Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Windows 7 and later comes with the perfect answer in an app called the Snipping Tool. Pause the sim in Windowed Mode and position the Spot View as you want it. Open the Snipping Tool and draw a rectangle around the airplane. The optimum width to height ratio is 2:1, the further you get from that the more distorted it will look in the sim. Save the snip as thumbnail.jpg to your Desktop. Move the thumbnail to the appropriate texture folder. Move on with life. peace, the Bean WWOD---What Would Opa Do? Farewell, my freind (sp) Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drobson Posted March 25, 2016 Author Share Posted March 25, 2016 Thanks for the replies. I think what I'm missing, is the renaming part. I'll have to check that. Lately, I've only been flying steam, as it seems to work best with my system. I like the function of pressing the F12 key for the screenshots, too. I used to use PSP with fs9 for screenshots, but can't get it to work with Win10. Steam is best for me right now. Darrell [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScatterbrainKid Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 My FSX Gold is on 8-year-old disks and the default screenshot key is 'V', I hit it again only recently to put a thumbnail.jpg into a vintage Cessna AW freeware download. After putting the screenshot into my PC 'Pictures' folder I resized it with 'Paint' to pixel width 435 x height 249, named it 'thumbnail.jpg' and put it into the Cessna AW texture folder in Sim Objects> Airplanes like below, http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub2/FSX-thumb1_zps5ul2wdgu.jpg~original and bingo it also appears in the a/c Selection screen and the rotating screen- http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub2/FSX-thumb2_zps5tceffze.jpg~original http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub2/FSX-thumb3_zpsrkusxcyv.jpg~original PS- and no, it's not missing any colours, the real-life livery really was black! The reason I resized the thumbnail to 435 x 249 is because that size has always worked for me in the past and I dare not change a winning team..:) (PS- are my three screenshots above displaying okay? Photobucket recently did some "maintenance" on their site and it seems to have buggered it up for a lot of customers including me, i've been onto them about it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub2/FSX-thumb1_zps5ul2wdgu.jpg~original and bingo it also appears in the a/c Selection screen and the rotating screen- http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub2/FSX-thumb2_zps5tceffze.jpg~original http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub2/FSX-thumb3_zpsrkusxcyv.jpg~original (PS- are my three screenshots above displaying okay? Photobucket recently did some "maintenance" on their site and it seems to have buggered it up for a lot of customers including me, i've been onto them about it) Yes Sir! As I just mentioned on your Autogen post, I'm seeing three shots here and I saw three there. They look fine to me.;) Still wondering, where were the autogen posting screenshot examples taken? Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScatterbrainKid Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Yes Sir! As I just mentioned on your Autogen post, I'm seeing three shots here and I saw three there. They look fine to me.;) Still wondering, where were the autogen posting screenshot examples taken? The autogen shots were taken in America, can't remember exactly where. I know I'm English but can still get around..:) The Pbucket thing is intermittent, sometimes my pics display and sometimes not, it's weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 viewed it on my phone, not logged in, saw one screenshot only. Below line: " and bingo it also appears in the a/c Selection screen and the rotating screen." Image is of selection screen, with all the different aircraft. -----# Now looking at it in pc, Firefox, not logged in. see no screenshots at all. Not in Ruperts post (the Quote), nor in yours. -----# In IE11, not logged in, one shot again only. again below: " and bingo it also appears in the a/c Selection screen and the rotating screen." Image is of selection screen, with all the different aircraft. -----# Logging in, standby, Firefox. Weird! Now again one shot. Still below line: " and bingo it also appears in the a/c Selection screen and the rotating screen." But this time image different. It is now a high wing prop plane, tiny plane, in the "preview window" Very black plane, with prop sitting vertical and wheels grey. -----# Logging in IE11, standby. Now I see two images. -Aircraft selection. (Cessna Aircraft Company Cessna A...) -And The same plane in the preview image. -----# Refreshing page on Firefox. Even weirder. Now again two images. But this time one is: -a shot of the texture.1 folder the other: -The preview window. ----# Refreshing page in IE. There we go, all three images there now. ------# Refreshing page in Firefox again still logged in in both IE and FF. all three Images there. ----------------- Were you working on it behind the scenes perhaps? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Last test. Logged out of both. Still all three images there. May be PB is getting slow? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScatterbrainKid Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Thanx, it's still a mystery, I've just sent this e-m to PB support- Hi, ever since you recently did maintenance at your site, many of my images are not displaying in forums any more, there's just a small empty "placeholder" icon there instead of the image, and sometimes there's not even the placeholder icon, just a completely blank space where the image should be. The trouble is intermittent, as sometimes images will display fine in a forum, but a few hours later they've vanished, then after a few more hours they're back again, then later they've gone again and so on! Other people tell me they intermittently can't see many of my images either, so the fault lies at the Photobucket end, and not with our computers. Even images I posted in forums years ago are affected as well as images I'm currently posting. I've done nothing at my end that causes it, as I know better than to mess with my albums. Can you give me any advice? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Scatterbrain, Now I can only see two images in my post but still three in yours.:confused: This is too weird.:confused: I hope they straighten it out soon! Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Just went back again, they're all there in your and my posts!!?? Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScatterbrainKid Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Haha yes it's a mystery for Mulder and Scully..:) If Pbucket don't get it sorted soon I'll have to switch to another image host. What method do Flightsim members use to post pics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 What method do Flightsim members use to post pics? I'm still a pretty much newbie on posting photos on this site. But all I do is click on the Insert Image button on the menu button for each post and then click select from computer, click on the image and then if it's not too large & it is a jpeg, that link sends it out to you and yours. I've never used another method to post shots & I've never had a problem. Except when I try to send a BMP or too big a shot. So I use "Paint to set the size of my shot and then Save As to make it a jpeg. I know others use fancier stuff but other than the PrtScn link which I've had no success with, this procedure has worked for what I've wanted to do so far. Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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