How to create a screenshot in Defold?
I believe that Defold has a built-in screen recorder, but for a screenshot I think you’d just use your OS’s way of capturing the screen. What OS are you running?
I’m interested in generic solution (iOS, Android, Windows…). I would like to create a screenshot (png/jpeg format) in my game and send the screenshot to photo application.
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Oh, that’s a more difficult case. You might be able to modify your render script to render the screen into a buffer and convert that into a .png, but hopefully there’s an easier way. @sicher, is there a built-in screenshot function? I looked around in the documentation and wasn’t able to find anything on one.
No, unfortunately there is not. I’ll check the backlog if we have that planned.
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It would be useful able to make screenshot of current state of game. For example to sharing game result in social network.
@britzl has made a screenshot native extension. Although I think it’s only been tested on iOS or Android, it should be fairly easy to port for other platforms, since it relies on glReadPixels()
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It works on Android and OSX. It doesn’t work on iOS (black screenshots). Haven’t tried on any other platform. I’ll send some Defold swag to whoever fixes the extension on iOS.
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