Is it possible to turn a scene into an actor?

RockiesInOctober

I looked around and it seems you can't directly take a screenshot of your game directly, but I was wondering if there was a way to take a scene that has actors in it, and "flatten it" (in Photoshop terms), and turn your flattened product into a new actor... sounds complicated, but what I'm really trying to achieve is basically an image of the screen that can be recalled later.

If anyone knows how to do anything like this, please let me know. Thanks!

ozboybrian

You mean set up a Rule that Captures the screen and saves it for later on for the viewer or player to look at later on?

I highly doubt it.

forklift

command+option+3 saves an image of everything you see on your monitor.

command+option+4 lets you drag a window and turn it into an image.

Either way, it saves to your desktop.

ozboybrian

I thought he meant of the screen at first but I thought he meant while playing the game for a feature or something... I think there is a icon you can click to just save what's in the gameplay space also.

RockiesInOctober

Yeah, I meant for the user to be able to capture the screen and then use it later. I have an app where a user can artistically move actors around in a scene and I want to make it so they can save what they've done and can see it at a later time.

simo103

I believe the answer is no however you could be tracking the actors positions, save them based on a trigger and then artificially show a 'snap shot' by using those saved values to recreate the scene.

RockiesInOctober

That sounds like it could work, thanks!

Now to go learn how to track an actor's position...

simo103

I wouldn't track the positions because that would have the processor always running that calculation unless you have to.

What i would do would be to capture the actors x and y position when the trigger event happens .. and maybe rotation or other variable you are changing.