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Thumbnail creation

WarHorse47

WarHorse47

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I was just wondering if there was an easy way to create a thumbnail for individual aircraft.

I have created thumbnails by converting a screenshot using Paint Shop Pro which works fine one at a time, but I'm looking for a more efficient way.

Yesterday I tried a utility called 'AutoThumbnail', but couldn't get it to work so I uninstalled it. I noticed there was a newer version called 'AutoThumbnail2', but have yet to try it. The instructions are somewhat vague so I thought that before I tried it out I'd ask if anyone has another method.

Thanks in advance
 
A bit off topic, but thumbnail references can be any size. I'll guess you take poser shots while flying? Any screenshot gives you the opportunity to pose said aircraft as you like, and all you have to do is drop that image into the particular repaint folder and name it "thumbnail"
 
Actually, not too far off topic.

What I'm thinking of trying is capturing multiple screenshots with different textures using the 'V' key, then using BatchConverter to change them to *.jpg format and reduce to the appropriate size.

The challenge comes with relocating them to the appropriate texture folder and renaming them to thumbnail.jpg. That's a manual process that may take awhile with a lot of files.
 
Thanks for the responses. I'm happy to report that the patient survived. :jump:

In addition to AutoThumb2, there was a fix for Windows 7 users. Since I'm running Win8 I installed the original plus the fix and got it working this time. :running:

I had 29 textures without thumbnails, and it took me almost an hour to get them all. I'm not sure if there was a memory leak or perhaps I had something running in the background because initially I could only do five aircraft before getting an "out of memory" error. I've got 16 Gb Ram and a 2 Gb video card, so I found that somewhat unusual. Anyways, after stopping (or getting a CTD) FSX and restarting, I eventually got them all.
 
WarHorse47 said:
Thanks for the responses. I'm happy to report that the patient survived. :jump:

In addition to AutoThumb2, there was a fix for Windows 7 users. Since I'm running Win8 I installed the original plus the fix and got it working this time. :running:

I had 29 textures without thumbnails, and it took me almost an hour to get them all. I'm not sure if there was a memory leak or perhaps I had something running in the background because initially I could only do five aircraft before getting an "out of memory" error. I've got 16 Gb Ram and a 2 Gb video card, so I found that somewhat unusual. Anyways, after stopping (or getting a CTD) FSX and restarting, I eventually got them all.
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Try this one
I like it..
http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/?Easy Thumbnails=3000

Rick
 
Thanks, Rick.

I'll give EasyThumb a try.

I had to uninstall the latest AutoThumb. Although I did create the needed thumbnails as I mentioned, the program was giving Out of Memory errors.
 
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