Taking a screenshot

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  July 2012 edited July 2012

  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.

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• Nascode Guru

  July 2012

  @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

  have fun with our games~
  http://www.nightspade.com

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• Teranth Member

  July 2012

  @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.

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• bowerandy Guru

  July 2012

  @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

  tweets: @ insidebowerhaus blog: http://bowerhaus.eu/blog/blog.html

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• Nascode Guru

  July 2012

  @bowerandy wow thank you for your plugin!

  have fun with our games~
  http://www.nightspade.com

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• Teranth Member

  July 2012

  @bowerandy very cool of you to share

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• GregBUG Guru

  July 2012

  @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... !

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• Scouser Guru

  July 2012 edited July 2012

  @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

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  https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Castlegate+Interactive
  

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• GregBUG Guru

  July 2012

  @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.: )

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  July 2012

  and anti-aliasing for everything

  Likes: Teranth, jack0088

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• Teranth Member

  July 2012

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

  ThumbHurt Games / FB: ThumbHurt Games / FB: Eli/Teranth | Skype: teranth37

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• keszegh Member

  September 2012

  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.

  Longtitle Productions, creator of
  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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• unlying Guru

  December 2012

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

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• Scouser Guru

  December 2012

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

  Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/scouser
  Website: http://www.castlegateinteractive.com
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Castlegate+Interactive
  

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