capture picture in irrlicht

Kairu · Post by **Kairu** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:50 am

hi everyone

i am making sort of 3d graph, in irrlichti may have post earlier about the meshing and i hv solve that. now i want to export the scene to an external picture (jpg,gif) because i need to print it out for reporting. Is there anyway to do it?

thanks alot

abhishekdey1985 · Post by **abhishekdey1985** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:19 am

You must go through the Last tutorial of Quake 3 Map Shader. There's a whole class declared for that purpose. I guess there's no provision of saving screen shot as GIF.

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video::IImage* image = Device->getVideoDriver()->createScreenShot();

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:08 am

Yes, after that call writeImageToFile on one of our image writers, jpg, png, bmp, pcx, ppm, and maybe even more are supported.

Kairu · Post by **Kairu** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:01 pm

thanks and sorry for wasting post since i haven't go through all the tutorial
thoroughly