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Guide to sharing kill pics


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Kill pic sharing

Ever since the auto-save kill pics feature was released and my kill-shot image folder started to rapidly grow, I wanted to show some to my friends and I figured there needs to be a better method than uploading them manually for them to see - so I looked for a better solution, which I will now present to you.

Step 1: Cloud storage

There are many cloud storage services available, e.g. One Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. Personally, I will be using One Drive, purely because it comes pre-loaded on newer versions of Windows, it's provides up to 5GB free storage, and it's owned by Microsoft. The last 2 points are important because, I noticed the average screenshot is about 200KB(ish) so 5GB is room for up to 25k kill pics - which is a lot, over the years only a few people reached that! And since Microsoft is a big company, you know they have reliable servers that won't go down and they won't close down so basically your images are extremely safe (I use it to back up important data). You could use Google's service if you prefer, my point is just don't use websites like freecloud4u (made-up) or funny names like that because they never last and aren't reliable.

OK, so you'll want to open your One Drive folder (if you don't have it, go download it now!) and in there you should see a "Public" folder. Remember: anything you put in this folder can be viewed by anybody online so only put stuff you wish to share with others. You could use separate MS accounts for personal/business/gaming up to you. Anything outside that folder can only be viewed by you (or anyone with access to your MS account). 

Now copy and paste your screenshots folder (in Windows you'll find it at: "C:\Users\yourname\roatpkz_screenshots") and put it inside this "Public" folder we discussed. Voila! Your images are now uploaded to the cloud and you can start sharing your cloud's public link right away! (just-right the folder and choose "share link")

Step 2: Synchronisation

I wish Gretar let us choose the path of the folder for screenshots to save (if that is even possible?), it would have saved this step because we could have set them to be saved direct to the cloud! Anyway, there is a neat little kit called "SyncToy" - it's by Microsoft, download it and it will ask you to enter 2 folders to keep sync'd, which will be: "C:\Users\yourname\roatpkz_screenshots" and "C:\Users\yourname\OneDrive\Public\roatpkz_screenshots". Name this pair "roatpkz_screenshots". Why do we need to do this step? Because, so far the cloud only has the kills that are already saved so far... it won't copy and paste new kill pics you make from the home directory to the One Drive so you would have to do it manually which is why I made this guide to prevent you doing that!

Step 3: Schedule a task

This is the last step, it basically forces the above SyncToy program to run everyday (or everytime you turn on your PC). Just open "Task Scheduler", also known as "taskschd.msc" - it's on every Windows computer. Click create basic task on the right side, then follow the wizard, when it asks which program to set a task for choose "C:\Program Files\SyncToy 2.1\SyncToyCmd.exe" and in the arguments box below type -R "roatpkz_screenshots" 

Step 4: URL Shortening (optional, but recommended)

Now that all of the above crap is set-up nicely, we are ready to share our One Drive Public link to the world, but problem is it's very messy and long because cloud services needed to encrypt shit for security so you can't just have e.g. onedrive.com/user1/1/youdied.png, no it's got to be a long string of random letters/numbers and we want to avoid that so use any URL shortening service you like, I like the Google one, just because it's nice and simple so feed it your long link and it will spit out a tiny one!

All done, put your feet up! That's it for this guide, I know it looks like a stupid as fuck method to accomplish something so easy but if you know a better way of automatically sending all your kill pics to the internet everyday without you having to do it yourself ('cuz I get so many kills you see :p) then please do tell me below. There is one possible solution using a basic batch file to do the job of synchronization which basically does the same as SyncToy without a nice looking interface so I didn't choose that method. 

*Note: I know this looks like a lot but it literally takes 5 minutes to do and once it's done you're set for life. The guide was sort of rushed so if you need me to go into more details for anything please do ask, I can and am willing to take screenshots of the steps if you guys wish, I just didn't bother to put that much effort in case no one cares for this.

Finally....

Here is a link to my kill pics folder, it will be updated daily at 12:00PM (GMT+1, London) with new pics if I have been playing:

PK Guy kills: https://goo.gl/CyP7ip

Edited by Game Support II
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1 hour ago, desert ship said:

Support.

It's not a suggestion mate but thanks, this is just something that might benefit players if they want to add it themselves. It automates the process of uploading literally every kill you do and organises in a neat folder in date order (latest at the bottom by default) so you can share your victories with anyone quickly and easily!

@Ahmash Why quote the whole thing..? Don't be silly

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1 hour ago, Game Support II said:

It's not a suggestion mate but thanks, this is just something that might benefit players if they want to add it themselves. It automates the process of uploading literally every kill you do and organises in a neat folder in date order (latest at the bottom by default) so you can share your victories with anyone quickly and easily!

@Ahmash Why quote the whole thing..? Don't be silly

I mean i support the idea like incourging ppl 2 do it

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