All window backgrounds become transparent when using camera

[Beat Imako]

Not sure what I clicked on, but when I wish to take a photo and click the button in the tool bar, all my windows (chat, inventory,etc.) become transparent and difficult to see.  Any ideas what to 'unclick'?  Thanks for reading this, Beat Imako

[Cinnamon Lohner]

The default setting for snapshots is to hide all the windows, titles, huds, etc.  If you wish to see those in your photo, click on the snapshot button and when the snapshot preview window appears, click on the More button.  Now you can choose to Show Interface in snapshot and Show HUD objects in snapshot.

Hope that helps!

--Cinn

[Beat Imako]

Thanks for the response Cinnamon-

 

I understand what you say, but maybe further clarification is needed:  All I need to do is press the snapshot button in the lower toolbar to cause this - I'm not actually taking a shot (sort of like getting your camera ready, but not pressing the shutter release button)  Once I press the button (before taking the picture), all backgrounds go away.  In the hopes of resolving this, I switched back to the original color interface (Gray vs Silver) and it doesn't happen anymore.  Solved the problem but still I wonder at what I did to cause it in the first place.

[Ellla McMahon]

Hello Beat, see this similar Question Re: Taking pictures for a possible cause.

pJIRA Snapshot to disk causes UI backgrounds to disappear

Please see Dawn Memorial added a comment  - 31/Jul/09 08:39

    Inoticed this yesterday when I was trying to take a snapshot, Iremembered that I had enabled Show Color Under Cursor in the Advanced-> UI menu, I disabled it and after that it worked like a charm.

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..I switched back to the original color interface (Gray vs Silver) and it doesn't happen anymore.  

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[Beat Imako]

That took care of it Ellla - I had been using the "show colors" readout to adjust some wardrobe items, and the 'Show Fullscreen Preview' button was the culprit.  Thanks so much!

-b