Can a Lens screenshot itself, and use it as a texture

yc

Can a Lens screenshot itself, and use it as a texture? (If so, how?)

Or, what is the Snap Lens Studio equivalent of Unity's CaptureScreenshotAsTexture?

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ScreenCapture.CaptureScreenshot.html

عماد مراد | خبير عدسة وفلاتر

Yes you can

yc

How?

yc

@عماد مراد | خبير عدسة وفلاتر said:
Yes you can

How?

Joshua Beckwith

There is a method for taking a snapshot... but I can't find the API method for it now. Anyway, I had problems with crashing when I tried using that method.

There is another way to do it with shaders and render targets, which seems to be more performant.
https://sugar.popul-ar.com/product/snap-lib-freeze-frame

yc

@Joshua Beckwith said:
There is a method for taking a snapshot... but I can't find the API method for it now. Anyway, I had problems with crashing when I tried using that method.

There is another way to do it with shaders and render targets, which seems to be more performant.
https://sugar.popul-ar.com/product/snap-lib-freeze-frame

interesting! i did not know there was a third party version of a Unity asset store for this stuff

yc

Finally figured it out. Sorta wish someone will have a Unity -> Lens Studio migration guide. Really just needed this one line -

var textureCopy = script.deviceCameraTexture.copyFrame();

عماد مراد | خبير عدسة وفلاتر

Here is how to make a screenshot shown in the explanation via the link below from the 18th minute to the end of the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82L9zDH2lxU&t=1s

yc

@عماد مراد | خبير عدسة وفلاتر said:
Here is how to make a screenshot shown in the explanation via the link below from the 18th minute to the end of the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82L9zDH2lxU&t=1s

Are you sure it is the right video? Also, do you happen to have your explanation in English - the subtitles are not available for transcription in the Farsi (?) video you sent. (Sorry, I do not understand middle eastern languages)

Joshua Beckwith

@yc said:

Finally figured it out. Sorta wish someone will have a Unity -> Lens Studio migration guide. Really just needed this one line -

var textureCopy = script.deviceCameraTexture.copyFrame();

Yeah, this is the method I was thinking of. It crashed iOS every time, but worked on Android. Might be OK if you are just using it sparingly.

yc

@Joshua Beckwith said:

@yc said:

Finally figured it out. Sorta wish someone will have a Unity -> Lens Studio migration guide. Really just needed this one line -

var textureCopy = script.deviceCameraTexture.copyFrame();

Yeah, this is the method I was thinking of. It crashed iOS every time, but worked on Android. Might be OK if you are just using it sparingly.

I got it to work in the last Lens Studio release. iOS.