Making textures from screen content

If you want your game or player to take in-game snapshots and apply them as textures, this recipe will show you how. This can be very useful if you plan to implement an in-game photo gallery or display a snapshot of a past key moment at the end of a level (racing games and stunt simulations use this feature a lot). For this particular example, we will take a snapshot from within a framed region of the screen and print it on the top-right corner of the display.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we have prepared the BasicScene Unity package, containing a scene named BasicScene. The package is in the 1362_05_codes folder.

How to do it...

To create textures from screen content, follow these steps:

  1. Import the BasicScene ...

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