I'm attempting to draw many textures onto one texture to create a map for an RTS game, and while I can can draw an individual texture onscreen, drawing them all to a render target seems to have no effect (the window remains AliceBlue when debugging) . I am trying to determine whether or not anything is even drawn to the render target, and so I am trying to save it as a Jpeg to a file and then view that Jpeg, from my desktop. How can I access that Jpeg from MemoryStream?
protected override void LoadContent()
{
spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(GraphicsDevice);
gridImage = new RenderTarget2D(GraphicsDevice, 1000, 1000);
GraphicsDevice.SetRenderTarget(gridImage);
GraphicsDevice.Clear(Color.AliceBlue);
spriteBatch.Begin();
foreach (tile t in grid.tiles)
{
Texture2D dirt = Content.Load<Texture2D>(t.texture);
spriteBatch.Draw(dirt, t.getVector2(), Color.White);
}
test = Content.Load<Texture2D>("dirt");
GraphicsDevice.SetRenderTarget(null);
MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
gridImage.SaveAsJpeg(memoryStream, gridImage.Width, gridImage.Height); //Or SaveAsPng( memoryStream, texture.Width, texture.Height )
// rt.Dispose();
spriteBatch.End();
}
I made a simple screenshot method,
void Screenie()
{
int width = GraphicsDevice.PresentationParameters.BackBufferWidth;
int height = GraphicsDevice.PresentationParameters.BackBufferHeight;
//Force a frame to be drawn (otherwise back buffer is empty)
Draw(new GameTime());
//Pull the picture from the buffer
int[] backBuffer = new int[width * height];
GraphicsDevice.GetBackBufferData(backBuffer);
//Copy to texture
Texture2D texture = new Texture2D(GraphicsDevice, width, height, false, GraphicsDevice.PresentationParameters.BackBufferFormat);
texture.SetData(backBuffer);
//Get a date for file name
DateTime date = DateTime.Now; //Get the date for the file name
Stream stream = File.Create(SCREENSHOT FOLDER + date.ToString("MM-dd-yy H;mm;ss") + ".png");
//Save as PNG
texture.SaveAsPng(stream, width, height);
stream.Dispose();
texture.Dispose();
}
Also, Are you loading Texture2D dirt = Content.Load<Texture2D>(t.texture); Every frame? It looks like it... Dont do that! That will cause massive lag loading hundreds of tiles, hundreds of times per second! instead make a global texture Texture2D DirtDexture and in your LoadContent() method do DirtTexture = Content.Load<Texture2D>(t.texture); Now when you draw you can do spriteBatch.Draw(DirtTexture,...
Do the same with spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(GraphicsDevice); and
gridImage = new RenderTarget2D(GraphicsDevice, 1000, 1000);
You dont need to make new RenderTarget and Spritebatch each frame! Just do it in the Initialize() Method!
Also see RenderTarget2D and XNA RenderTarget Sample For more information on using render targets
EDIT: I realize its all in LoadContent, I didnt see that because the formatting was messed up, remember to add your Foreach (Tile, etc) in your Draw Method
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In Monogame, I'm creating a 2D texture that's a horizontal flip of an existing texture using GetData and SetData like this:
private static Texture2D Flip(Texture2D art)
{
Color[] oldData = new Color[art.Width * art.Height];
art.GetData(oldData);
Texture2D newTexture = new Texture2D(Root.Graphics.GraphicsDevice, art.Width, art.Height);
Color[] newData = new Color[art.Width * art.Height];
// Edit newData using oldData
newTexture.SetData(newData);
return newTexture;
}
This seemed to work on Windows but when running it on Android, although the flip itself works, some other, seemingly random and unrelated, texture gets corrupted: it becomes an amalgam of several textures and partially vertically flipped.
I suspect that my call to SetData somehow overwrites another region of memory or something.
How can I create programatically a new texture without this corruption happening?
I'm trying to access image pixels by position i have been use byte array for accessing but it does not give the correct position of x,y like python image[x][y] is there any better way to access pixels?
i have used opencv plugin in unity,visual studio and cannot access them
public texture2D image;
Mat imageMat = new Mat(image.height, image.width, CvType.CV_8UC4);
Utils.texture2DToMat(image, imageMat); // actually converts texture2d to matrix
byte[] imageData = new byte[(int)(imageMat.total() * imageMat.channels())]; // pixel data of image
imageMat.get(0, 0, imageData);// gets pixel data
pixel=imageData[(y * imageMat.cols() + x) * imageMat.channels() + r]
y and x are pixel values in the code and r is the channel but i'm not able to
access a particular value of x and y with that code
There is no usual way to do it because operation is really slow. But some trick to do it is you can make screen texture from 'Camera' class.
After you make texture, you can use texture.GetPixel(x,y)
public class Example : MonoBehaviour
{
// Take a "screenshot" of a camera's Render Texture.
Texture2D RTImage(Camera camera)
{
// The Render Texture in RenderTexture.active is the one
// that will be read by ReadPixels.
var currentRT = RenderTexture.active;
RenderTexture.active = camera.targetTexture;
// Render the camera's view.
camera.Render();
// Make a new texture and read the active Render Texture into it.
Texture2D image = new Texture2D(camera.targetTexture.width, camera.targetTexture.height);
image.ReadPixels(new Rect(0, 0, camera.targetTexture.width, camera.targetTexture.height), 0, 0);
image.Apply();
// Replace the original active Render Texture.
RenderTexture.active = currentRT;
return image;
}
}
Hi I have the issue that when I use ScaleTransform(zoomFactor,zoomFactor) the image saved on disk is the original version always, while on screen in the picturebox the image is distorted in proportion to the zoomFactor.
Why this could be happening ? Shouldn't I have the final result as applied from e.Graphics on disk written image ?
My code is the following which is a version with matrix. but the instead of matrix I have used the ScaleTransform as well. Result is always the same:
g=e.Graphics;//inside picturebox_paint()
g.ScaleTransform(ratio * zoomFac, ratio * zoomFac);
e.Graphics.DrawImage((Bitmap)bmp, 0, 0);
int seed = Convert.ToInt32(Regex.Match(Guid.NewGuid().ToString(), #"\d+").Value);
String destinationFile = #"C:\tmp\photoid\" + new Random(seed).Next() + "_conv.jpg";
//Here I get always the original image back!!!!
bmp.Save(destinationFile);
I have used as well the following idiom but with same results:
//Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
//matrix.Scale(zoomFac, zoomFac);
//e.Graphics.Transform = matrix;
You need to make the PictureBox draw the things it shows on screen into a new Bitmap, which you then can save!
As it is the Image will be saved in the original form and nothing you did in the Paint event, which actually painst onto the surface of the PictureBox will be saved.
So to save everything, i.e. The Image, possibly a BackgroundImage and all you draw in the Paint event you would call DrawToBitmap somehwere.
Somewhere means somewhere else, not in the Paint event, as it will call the Paint event to create the new Bitmap, causing an endless loop..
To call it you would do something like this:
Bitmap bmpSave = new Bitmap(pictureBox1.ClientSize.Width, pictureBox1.ClientSize.Height);
pictureBox1.DrawToBitmap(bmpSave, pictureBox1.ClientRectangle);
But maybe this is not really what you want? Maybe you actually want to modify the Image? In that case do not use the Paint event at all!
Instead do something like this:
Bitmap bmpSave = new Bitmap(yourNewWidth, yourNewHeight);
using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bmpSave))
{
g.ScaleTransform(ratio * zoomFac, ratio * zoomFac);
g.DrawImage((Bitmap)pictureBox1.Image, 0, 0); //
pictureBox1.Image = bmpSave;
bmpSave.Save(...);
}
You could call this from somewhere where the scaling is being triggered from.
Note that doing the scaling repeatedly and each time from the previoulsy scaled version will degrade the quality rather fast. For this always scale from a saved version of the original!!
Btw: Using a Matrix for scaling doesn't really make a difference over ScaleTransform.
But if you want to do a direct scaling why not use the DrawImage overload which takes two Rectangles? This is the most common solution if all you want to to scale and maybe draw other stuff additionally..:
int newWidth = 100; int newHeight = 100; string yourFileName = "D:\\xyz123.jpg";
Bitmap bmpSave = new Bitmap(pictureBox1.ClientSize.Width, pictureBox1.ClientSize.Height);
Rectangle newRectangle = new Rectangle(0, 0, newWidth, newHeight);
Rectangle oldRectangle = new Rectangle(Point.Empty, pictureBox1.Image.Size);
using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bmpSave))
{
g.DrawImage((Bitmap)pictureBox1.Image, newRectangle, oldRectangle, GraphicsUnit.Pixel);
bmpSave.Save(yourFileName, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
}
And there there is the scaling Bitmap constructor:
Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(pictureBox1.Image, newWidth, newHeight);
Which I would recommend if all you want is to scale the Image. As the other solutions it will not change the Image displayed until you assign it back into the PictureBox..:
pictureBox1.Image = bmp ;
Don't forget to dispose of the old Image..
Been a while since I messed with GDI but I think you need to copy back to the Bitmap here.
g.DrawImage(bmp, scaledwidth, scaledheight);
Try something like that before bmp.Save
Edit
Apologies for not seeing that you were copying back to the bitmap. Perhaps the overload which specifies the output rectangle is what you need. Try a DrawImage overload which has the destination Rect. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms142040(v=vs.110).aspx
I'm creating an XNA game that creates random islands from multiple sprites. It creates them in a separate thread, then compiles them to a single texture using RenderTarget2D.
To create my RenderTarget2D I need a graphics device. If I use the automatically created graphics device, things work okay for the most part, except that draw calls in the main game thread conflict with it. Using lock() on the graphics device causes flickering, and even then the texture is sometimes not created properly.
If I create my own Graphics device, there are no conflicts but the islands never render correctly, instead coming out pure black and white. I have no idea why this happens. Basically I need a way to create a second graphics device that lets me get the same results, instead of the black / white. Anyone got any ideas?
Here's the code I'm using to try and create my second graphics device for exclusive use by the TextureBuilder:
var presParams = game.GraphicsDevice.PresentationParameters.Clone();
// Configure parameters for secondary graphics device
GraphicsDevice2 = new GraphicsDevice(game.GraphicsDevice.Adapter, GraphicsProfile.HiDef, presParams);
Here's the code I'm using to render my islands to a single texture:
public IslandTextureBuilder(List<obj_Island> islands, List<obj_IslandDecor> decorations, SeaGame game, Vector2 TL, Vector2 BR, int width, int height)
{
gDevice = game.Game.GraphicsDevice; //default graphics
//gDevice = game.GraphicsDevice2 //created graphics
render = new RenderTarget2D(gDevice, width, height, false, SurfaceFormat.Color, DepthFormat.None);
this.islands = islands;
this.decorations = decorations;
this.game = game;
this.width = width;
this.height = height;
this.TL = TL; //top left coordinate
this.BR = BR; //bottom right coordinate
}
public Texture2D getTexture()
{
lock (gDevice)
{
//Set render target. Clear the screen.
gDevice.SetRenderTarget(render);
gDevice.Clear(Color.Transparent);
//Point camera at the island
Camera cam = new Camera(gDevice.Viewport);
cam.Position = TL;
cam.Update();
//Draw all of the textures to render
SpriteBatch batch = new SpriteBatch(gDevice);
batch.Begin(SpriteSortMode.BackToFront, BlendState.AlphaBlend, null, null, null, null, cam.Transform);
{
foreach (obj_Island island in islands)
{
island.Draw(batch);
}
foreach (obj_IslandDecor decor in decorations)
{
decor.Draw(batch);
}
}
batch.End();
//Clear render target
gDevice.SetRenderTarget(null);
//Copy to texture2D for permanant storage
Texture2D texture = new Texture2D(gDevice, render.Width, render.Height);
Color[] color = new Color[render.Width * render.Height];
render.GetData<Color>(color);
texture.SetData<Color>(color);
Console.WriteLine("done");
return texture;
}
Here's what should happen, with a transparent background (and usually does if I use the default device)
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n81/taumonkey/GoodIsland.png
Here's happens when the default device conflicts and the main thread manages to call Clear() (even though it's locked too)
NotSoGoodIsland.png (need 10 reputation....)
Here's what happens when I use my own Graphics device
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n81/taumonkey/BadIsland.png
Thanks in advance for any help provided!
I may have solved this by moving the RenderToTarget code into the Draw() method and calling it from within the main thread the first time Draw() is called.
I need to render a sprite in a texture2d so that this texture can later be render on the screen, but at the same time I need to access the pixels of this modified texture so, if I add let's say a sprite in the texture and I call a get pixel function in a coordinate where the sprite was then it should give me the new pixel values that correspond to the sprite (that has been blended with the texture2d).
I am using xna 4.0 not 3.5 or less.
thanks.
the equivalent of Graphics.FromImage(img).DrawImage(... in GDI
I tried this and failed
public static Texture2D DrawSomething(Texture2D old, int X, int Y, int radius) {
var pp = Res.game.GraphicsDevice.PresentationParameters;
var r = new RenderTarget2D(Res.game.GraphicsDevice, old.Width, old.Height, false, pp.BackBufferFormat, pp.DepthStencilFormat,
pp.MultiSampleCount, RenderTargetUsage.DiscardContents);
Res.game.GraphicsDevice.SetRenderTarget(r);
var s = new SpriteBatch(r.GraphicsDevice);
s.Begin();
s.Draw(old, new Vector2(0, 0), Color.White);
s.Draw(Res.picture, new Rectangle(X - radius / 2, Y - radius / 2, radius, radius), Color.White);
s.End();
Res.game.GraphicsDevice.SetRenderTarget(null);
return r;
}
Res.game is basically a pointer to the main game form and Res.picture is a random texture2d
Use a RenderTarget2D: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.xna.framework.graphics.rendertarget2d.aspx
If possible, avoid creating a new render target every time. Create it outside of the method and reuse it for best performance.
Here some pseudo-code:
public Texture2D DrawOnTop(RenderTarget2D target, Texture2D oldTexture, Texture2D picture)
{
SetRenderTarget(target);
Draw(oldTexture);
Draw(picture);
SetRenderTarget(null);
return target;
}
If the size changes frequently and you cannot reuse the target, at least dispose the previous one, like annonymously suggested in the comments. Each new target will consume memory, unless you release the resource in time. But dispose it after you used it in a shader or did whatever you wanted to do with it. Once disposed it is gone.