Taking a screenshot

Nascode

Hi guys, we want to implement ability to take a screenshot (or bitmap representation) of our game when the game is being played, just like Jetpack Joyride on the result screen. Even better would be to take a screenshot from certain sprite hierarchy

Is this possible in Gideros, or we must any plug-in workaround to achieve it?

ar2rsawseen

There was a render to texture feature on the way (I hope ), which will do what you want.
But for now, plugin is your only option, although as I understood creating this kind of plugin, could be pretty difficult, since you do not have access to Gideros Sprite hierarchy.

Nascode

@ar2rsawseen thanks for your reply, i hope @atilim or @gorkem could look at this feature

I dont see any kind of render to texture feature in the roadmap though http://bugs.giderosmobile.com/projects/gideros-studio-sdk/roadmap

Teranth

@ar2rsawseen I too am waiting on the render to texture feature as I think it would be awesome to be able to render the textures on the fly at the correct resolution

@Nascode as far as I understand @ar2rsawseen is right on the money with this. Currently the feature is not in Gideros but planned as far as know. Plugin wise, I suppose you could make a simple function that just grabs the Gideos view surface and saves it out as a bitmap, but you would get the whole screen etc since Gideros isn't directly accessible in Java as far as I have been playing with it.

bowerandy

@Nascode, I too hope the render to texture feature makes it into the Gideros engine. In the meantime there is possible solution using a plugin I wrote but only if you are on IOS. Here's the link:

http://bowerhaus.eu/blog/files/gideros_snapshot.html

Best regards

Nascode

@bowerandy wow thank you for your plugin!

Teranth

@bowerandy very cool of you to share

GregBUG

@all
i think render to texture will be very very very useful for my tntanimator studio
so i can use cocos2d texture format (sprites sized and rotated) in texture atlas to reduce memory usage...

pleeease @atilim... !

Scouser

@GregBUG: I know everybody seems to want Render To Texture but I think TNTAnimator Studio would benefit more from TextureRegion of a TextureRegion so you can have multiple animations in one texture and access them using regions of that texture.

The same would also work with fonts, tilemaps and other uses I haven't thought of yet

@atilim: squeak, squeak

GregBUG

@GregBUG: I know everybody seems to want Render To Texture but I think TNTAnimator Studio would benefit more from TextureRegion of a TextureRegion so you can have multiple animations in one texture and access them using regions of that texture.

The same would also work with fonts, tilemaps and other uses I haven't thought of yet

@atilim: squeak, squeak

The "top" for me should be to have textureregion and rendertotexture functionality.: )

ar2rsawseen

and anti-aliasing for everything

Teranth

@ar2rsawseen gawds yes....I would be happy with anti-aliasing for shapes alone but yes!

keszegh

Hi guys, we want to implement ability to take a screenshot (or bitmap representation) of our game when the game is being played, just like Jetpack Joyride on the result screen. Even better would be to take a screenshot from certain sprite hierarchy

Is this possible in Gideros, or we must any plug-in workaround to achieve it?

Hi, it may be slightly off the topic but wanted to say that there is an old game i like which is similar to your idea: http://www.saitogames.com/battlepainters/index.htm
It may be even more playable this way then when everybody can paint wherever wants (that would end in a broken tablet i think, except if it is online and everybody has his own device to paint on). Let us know if you make the game anytime.

unlying

I want to have possibilitie to take screenshots on Android too:)

Scouser

Have you tried looking at this to see if it fits your bill.