Most of the straight on mugshots people are using are the images generated by the save/load feature of the uniform editor.

For mine, I turned anti-aliasing off in the video settings, then zoomed in as close as I could in the character editor, then typed "/screenshot" into the chat window. That gave me .tga files which are crisper than the default screenshots (.jpg format), which let me take away the background colours. Then I shrunk them down to fit in the squares I drew up.

As far as a good place to grab a picture of your captain out in the world, taking a screenshot in front of the main screen on your ship's bridge is probably the best bet for most skin colours. Obviously if your captain has a monotone dark gray/black skin colour it won't work out as well.

Thanks for those tips! I've been wanting to play around with a sig and now wouldn't mind doing something a little more interesting than just the usual. Well, I certainly have some enjoyment coming

I thought I might've posted my crew here, but, after searching the thread, I couldn't find it.

This is an old image of them [the ship name and registry is different], but the crew is still the same.

[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...="Photobucket"

Yes each boff has a unique story. I will perhaps write a quick blurb about each one.

I wish Cryptic focused more on our boffs and our interactions with them, I always thought that was an important part of all the trek series.

I came up with this idea after seeing the female Andorian on this page. There was just something about a blue Andorian in a blue sciences uniform that just struck me. For a long time now, I've toyed with the idea or creating a crew which is color coded to their uniforms, finding some race that is red skinned for the red uniforms, and yellow or orange for the gold uniforms. A yellow furred Caitian for the gold occured to me instantly, but I figured the big question mark would be finding a Federation species of alien with red skin.

Sure enough, it was pretty tough, but I finally decided on a Saurian, as an option that comes close enough to red. I also used a Rigelian for the gold (the tatoos on her face are yellow, even though her skin is flesh tone) because I want to put off the Caitian until I have more C-store points or Dilithium, or both. And the Orion captain I had to create as an Alien, so I could put her in a Federation uniform. (Plus, only the Captain rank matches the green)

Of course, since this is TOS colors, the gold is Command while red is Engineering. But I like the way this turned out, although it looks something like Ted Turner colorized it.

The crew of the U.S.S. Exeter (23rd century Constitution class cruiser)

As a nod to the original inspiration, I had this crew thrown forward in time, too. I had originally intended to purchase a Benzite, but chose a Bolian for the second Science officer instead. She isn't from the original crew, though, as Bolians never appeared in TOS. Also, I may add some male crewmembers to the crew eventually, but half of the look is the skirt being in that same color.

That's pretty cool!

Here is my crew taken from a work in progress "photo album"

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...JJackson-2.jpg

Commanding Officer - Captain Edward James Smith
First Officer - Commander Corspa
Cheif Science Officer - Lt Commander Umesoi
Cheif Engineer Officer - Lt Commander Tholin
Cheif Security Officer - Lt Commander Syson
Chief Operations Officer - Lt Commander Deneir
Chief Medical Officer - Lt Commander Soras
Chief Tactical Officer - Lt Commander Olinda
Conn Officer - Lieutenant Wally

Seems where to have so many Lt Commanders but the reality is their all Chief Officers so they are the most senior ranking officers.

I was going to ask about the chat window as I didnl;t see it and had tried previously. For me, it shrinks down to an emblem and has to be clicked on to bring it back.

I can work with that but I would prefer using the head and shoulder shot you get when you first get the boff or when you interact with one of them during a mission. There's no way to forse generate that, is there? Or maybe a foundry mission that runs through your bridge crew?