Render to Texture

marty

Can you render to texture for things like monitor screens and billboards in 3D in Godot 3?

Calinou

It is possible in both 2D and 3D, see the GUI in 3D demo.

marty

Thanks! I'll check that out pronto!

marty

Thanks, C. But is that demo really rendering to a texture. It looks to me like this demo shows a viewport being used to encapsulate a set of GUI controls. Which is pretty neat for sure.

But what I'm looking for is how you can point a camera at something in the scene and have what that camera 'sees' rendered to a texture.

Does Godot not support that?

Thanks again for your feedback!

Calinou

You can render a 3D viewport to a texture; I believe this is what the 3D in 2D demo does.

marty

Oh, I just fogured it out. You need to set the texture to a Viewport type. That part was buried in the UI.

Thanks!

marty

For future generations, this feature worked in the editor but not in builds until Godot 3.0.1 and is now fixed.