One way of handling this is, rather than taking the screenshot immediately, just flag an "scr_screenshot" qboolean to true, then run SCR_UpdateScreen and if scr_screenshot is true selectively suppress certain UI elements. Finally glReadPixels and capture the screen. 

hmmm... 

yes, taking one screenshot wont display the message in the screenshot.

spam the screenshot key and youll get the message in the screenshot.

some people implement real world photography concepts into screenshots and one of those concepts is to take a quick series of images to then pull the best one from.

Think of skateboarding where they use shutter speeds to capture the whole trick then pick one of the pictures to use on the cover. 

heres a GIF with this in action:

https://i.imgur.com/Xe2Jd1U.gifv 

http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/rrp_start5.gif 

yup, now I see it 

are these last few posts just one big troll?

you know the "clear" command is a thing yeah? clears the console?

bind F12 "screenshot;clear"

does what you want I think? 

metlslimes suggestion of "con_notifytime" is better than using clear, imo. 

reading that back again sounds a bit patronising, but I think it's a valid solution for now.

Maybe the fact it clears the console history doesn't make it a perfect solution. 

lol, I skimmed past that.

Yeah that's even better. 

yeah, i changed the binding now too.
no trolling intended. 

that rrp gif is 5 yrs old now, i just remembered making it was such a chore not knowing how to disable the message. 

It would be neat if QS allowed for changing the actual layout and functionality of the hud. I think stuff like that would be very cool esp for big mods like AD. 

That requires support for CSQC hud code - I think QSS has this supported, but I haven't had time to check it out yet. 

I always get warnings when I try to get QSS. 

the website? It's fine FYI.

http://triptohell.info/moodles/qss/ 

j/k i get the same warnings, idk what windows doesn't like about qss, it is annoying. 

more info re: hud

http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=61351&start=142 

Yeah, getting a virus warning from that. From the zip as well. Wonder why that is exactly. I reckon it is some funky code which gets picked up by heuristics? 

How hard would it be to get temporal dithering, similar to that of Inside, into a quake engine?

The banding that the fog generates, esp in dark areas is pretty harsh. With good temporal dithering, that is limited to the fogged areas, things would look a lot nicer. Obvs this is not important as it is not a gameplay thing at all, but it would be neat. 

Also, thanks Kinn for the hud linkage :) 

The main roadblock for Quakespasm is the renderer is not fully converted to shaders; mdl and lightmapped faces are, but water, sprites, sky and anything else are still using fixed-function OpenGL.

Dumping some links on dithering I found:
http://loopit.dk/banding_in_games.pdf
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MslGR8 

Ah, I see.

Here's a good talk about what they did in Inside here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdN06E6Xn9E

I also think they gave away the plugin, or whatever they wrote for Unity to do this stuff for free. Not that that would help a lot with QS. 

 

On any hardware from the past 15 or so years, fixed function OpenGL no longer exists: it's emulated with shaders in the driver.

Maybe "fixed function is faster" was true in the GeForce FX era, but time and technology have both seriously moved on since then.