Automatic Screenshot Renamer

[JohnnyLeven]

So, I take a lot of screenshot and I mean a lot (or I used to at least). The only problem with that is it's a pain to go back and rename those screenshots to keep track of scores. So, I decided to make a program to automatically rename your sm screenshots for you to something useful.

I thought of trying to make my own build of SM and changing it there, but I've had issues trying to build sm in the past and I wasn't looking forward to trying again, so I went with a different approach.

I made a new lua file that can be added to any theme that essentially creates a barcode on your screenshots with the relevant information and then I created a program that monitors your screenshot folder and renames any new screenshot that comes in (assuming it can find the barcode in your screenshot).

This just works with SM-SSC (and probably SM 5 but I haven't tried it). It should work with any theme, but I guess it's possible that some themes could have some sort of graphic that would appear on top of my bar code on the very right which would cause issues. Also, if you have the fps showing that can get in the way and prevent it from working.

I've set it up to rename screenshots the way I've always done it, but I'd like to make it customizable at some point so that people can define their own rules for renaming screenshots.

Although I probably won't be making a new version in the next two weeks due to school stuff, I'd love to get feedback and suggestions on how to improve this.

Screenshots:

(You can see the "barcode" on the very right of the screenshot)





v0.01 Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?q1t00bxg003f6xg
(You may need to download the most recent .NET framework to run this as well)
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Installation
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1) First, back up your theme. I don't want to be blamed for something breaking.
2) Second, go to:
<stepmania directory>/Themes/<themename>/BGAnimations
where <stepmania directory> is where you installed stepmania and <themename> is the theme you want to add this to.
3) Check if there is an existing "ScreenEvaluation overlay" folder
If there is not a "ScreenEvaluation overlay" folder:
3a) Copy the "ScreenEvaluation overlay" folder from the zip file into the BGAnimations folder

If there is a "ScreenEvaluation overlay" folder:
3b) Does the folder contain a default.lua? If not, simply copy over the default.lua from the zip file.
If the folder does contain a default.lua file, you may want to consider using a different theme if you're going to use this. The other option is to simply replace the existing default.lua, but that could cause some major issues with your theme. The other option is to try to paste the contents of the included default.lua into the existing default.lua, but that probably won't work without some tweaking.

4) Now place screenshotNamer.exe anywhere you'd like and run it (you may need to run as administrator). Select your screenshots folder (usually C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\sm-ssc\Screenshots) and then click Start Renamer. From there you can just play SM and take screenshots. The program with take care of the rest.



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You may have noticed that the 2nd results screen has some various timing stats on it. I added those awhile back plus I changed the gameplay screen to match the 3.95 theme gameplay screen. Here's the sm-ssc default theme mod if you'd like it:
http://www.mediafire.com/?wzvmtfv53gm0mcq
It also already includes the "barcode" theme mod, but you'll still need the auto renaming exe from the zip above.

[who_cares973]

this is probably the greatest addition to an sm theme ever wow. only wish it was for sm 3.9 but i guess its about time i upgrade anyhow

more people need to know about this

[krunkykai22]

This is amazing!

[Shikari]

Great job, John. Seriously, great job.

[flash dualist]

Awesome! It actually works!

[Ziergdsx18]

Pretty nice. Good job.

[you love i]

Holy shit now this is something really amazing

[Emithith]

Pretty useful.
Not worth switching SMs for, but pretty useful indeed.

[samurai7694]

REALLY nice idea!

[jimerax]

looks great!

[JohnnyLeven]

Thanks guys! I was starting to think no one took screenshots lol.

Also, regarding switching to sm-ssc/sm5, I had trouble switching as well. The gameplay screen for the default theme in sm-ssc totally threw my timing off. So, I edited the default theme to look identical (pretty much) to the sm3.95 gameplay screen. If anyone is interested in trying it to see if that helps, I'll upload it.

[icontrolyourworld]

yes please johnny

[JohnnyLeven]

Here's my sm-ssc default theme mod. I haven't tried it with sm5. It already includes the theme changes for the screenshot renamer (but you'll still need the exe from the zip in the first post). It also includes the various timing stats shown in the 2nd results screenshot in the first post.
http://www.mediafire.com/?wzvmtfv53gm0mcq

I haven't tried it with sm5, but I'd guess it would work.

[Patashu]

this is a great idea

[TheNoSoMan]

i would download the mod, but i would like a screenshot of the gameplay screen before i would use it.

[JohnnyLeven]

Originally Posted by TheNoSoMan

i would download the mod, but i would like a screenshot of the gameplay screen before i would use it.

Good point. Here's the gameplay screen:


Differences between this and 3.95:
- The score doesn't show in game. I played around with it, but I couldn't get it to show above the bottom pane for some reason.
- In widescreen there are black bars to the left and right.
- The difficulty icon is not the same in the bottom left, but it is in pretty much the same place.
- The combo doesn't pulse and is always the same size (I changed that intentionally for myself). It's not to hard to add back in if you want it.
- The combo is behind the notes by default. This can be changed by opening
sm-ssc\Data\UserPrefs\_fallback\UserPrefComboUnderField.cfg and chaning it to false. If there is another folder in the sm-ssc\Data\UserPrefs directory you might have to change it there instead.
- The song artist/title is shown at the bottom.

[TheNoSoMan]

huh, this reminds me of staiain's version of ultralight.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/jybcfb

I'm not sure if this is it.














wait you're john11

[JohnnyLeven]

Yep. I'm John11. John11 was taken on FFR so I'm JohnnyLeven here. Thanks for the link. I didn't know someone tried doing that before. I like my gameplay screen better though since it has the combo numbers and position from 3.95 too.

[TheNoSoMan]

But just to make sure, did you make the infamous chik habit?

Also, does that staiain theme work just like yours because i havent tested it out?

[qqwref]

Oh man, awesome addition there. This seriously makes me want to switch to sm-ssc.