narodgaming / ffxv-screenshot-grabber

A simple screenshot converting utility for FFXV.

Narod's FFXV (Final Fantasy 15) Screenshot Grabber

Narod's FFXV Screenshot Grabber is a utility which converts the .ss files output by the game, in to usable .jpg files.

Find it on NexusMods

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Background

In FFXV (Final Fantasy 15), Prompto (an in-game character) will take in-game photos of what your party has gotten up to. These are saved by the game in a format which a regular photoviewer does not support. This utility can convert these .ss files in to .jpg files for you.

Overview

Requirements

• .NET 6.0

Supported Systems

• Windows: 7, 8.1, 10, 11
• Linux: SteamOS, & any other distro where Wine works
• macOS: 14.0+ (Sonoma)

Features

• See a live preview of what the .ss file contains before exporting it
• Export a single photo, or an entire folders worth in one go
  • Compared to the most popular FFXV Screenshot Utility, this utility is incredibly fast
• Automatic multi-platform detection of your screenshot folder, with the option to browse to a custom one
• Realtime mode, which can be activated to save a copy of the screenshots as they are taken in-game.
• Automatic version checker, you will be notified of future updates.

Limitations

• Images are saved with the same file name as their .ss counterpart, which is just a string of sequential numbers.
• This utility doesn't reset your snapshot in-game file, so you need to sit there and remove all the blank files if you clean out your 'snapshot' folder.
• SteamOS setup is complicated, instructions on Nexus (link above)

Helping Narod's FFXV Screenshot Grabber

This utility is fully open-source under GPLv3. Right now, we're looking for help with:

• Any issues/bugs found
• Improvements to features and functionality
• Better Linux/SteamOS support & setup

ffxv-screenshot-grabber's Issues

ProgressBar does not theme for Dark Mode

As of V1.2.0, the ProgressBar does not correctly theme itself when Dark Mode is activated.

This is likely because WinForms ProgressBar does not properly support theming (as per several Stack Overflow questions I found), and as such a workaround may be needed.

Stack Overflow suggestions for this involve suggestions that may break this feature on Linux/SteamOS, and therefore implementation of this function & testing specifically on Linux would be welcome.

Tooltips don't function on disabled buttons

When Realtime Mode is enabled, the buttons to change folder and auto find the folder are disabled as these won't work correctly at this time.

However, the tooltips are supposed to change to inform the user that the reason for this is due to Realtime mode, this does not appear to work correctly on my system (Windows 11).