Saving out RenderTexture contents

Unity Engine
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I created a script to automate taking a snapshot of an object to make a billboard, however I can not save out the render texture contents it seems - it’s a shame you can not access its pixels.

Also if I just draw it to the screen with GUI.DrawTexture it renders somewhat transparent (looks 50% see-through) which is weird! - edit: probably that’s because my camera had alpha background!

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Did u figure out a way to save out (PNG) a RenderTexture?
I’d like to get that too.

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What you need to do to save out a render texture is

  1. Hook it up as render texture of the active cam
  2. Use ReadPixels and read it into a texture2d
  3. use EncodeToPNG on that texture2d and save :slight_smile:

you can’t save a rendertexture itself because it does not exist (rendertextures exist on the gpu only, they don’t exist on the RAM where they need to exist to even touch them with code)