How to set texture of Sprite to viewport

AAcoAlex · Aug 2, 2023

My goal is to implement a screenshot feature in my game. I need to capture the current viewport as a Texture and assign it to my Sprite. However, the method I tried did not work as expected. The image kept changing whenever the viewport changed, which is not the desired behavior.

fatalox · Aug 2, 2023

The captured viewport after an input (on_CaptureButton_pressed) should be store inside a variable (img).
Then converted as texture (ImageTexture.create_from_image(img)), stored in another variable (texture)
Last, set the variable (captured_image) with the prev converted texture (captured_image.set_texture(texture).

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/rendering/viewports.html#capture
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_imagetexture.html#imagetexture

extends Node

@onready var captured_image = $CapturedImage

func _on_CaptureButton_pressed():
	# Retrieve the captured image.
	var img = get_viewport().get_texture().get_image()

	# Create a texture for it.
	var texture = ImageTexture.create_from_image(img)

	# Set the texture to the captured image node.
	captured_image.set_texture(texture)