Camera.Render

Description

Render the camera manually.

This will render the camera. It will use the camera's clear flags, target texture and all other settings.

The camera will send OnPreCull, OnPreRender & OnPostRender to any scripts attached, and render any eventual image filters.

This is used for taking precise control of render order. To make use of this feature, create a camera and disable it. Then call Render on it.

You are not able to call the Render function from a camera that is currently rendering. If you wish to do this create a copy of the camera, and make it match the original one using CopyFrom.

See Also: RenderWithShader.

	// Take a "screenshot" of a camera's Render Texture.
	function RTImage(cam: Camera) {
		// The Render Texture in RenderTexture.active is the one
		// that will be read by ReadPixels.
		var currentRT = RenderTexture.active;
		RenderTexture.active = cam.targetTexture;
		
		// Render the camera's view.
		cam.Render();
		
		// Make a new texture and read the active Render Texture into it.
		var image = new Texture2D(cam.targetTexture.width, cam.targetTexture.height);
		image.ReadPixels(new Rect(0, 0, cam.targetTexture.width, cam.targetTexture.height), 0, 0);
		image.Apply();
		
		// Replace the original active Render Texture.
		RenderTexture.active = currentRT;
		return image;
	}

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour {
    Texture2D RTImage(Camera cam) {
        RenderTexture currentRT = RenderTexture.active;
        RenderTexture.active = cam.targetTexture;
        cam.Render();
        Texture2D image = new Texture2D(cam.targetTexture.width, cam.targetTexture.height);
        image.ReadPixels(new Rect(0, 0, cam.targetTexture.width, cam.targetTexture.height), 0, 0);
        image.Apply();
        RenderTexture.active = currentRT;
        return image;
    }
}

import UnityEngine
import System.Collections

public class ExampleClass(MonoBehaviour):

	def RTImage(cam as Camera) as Texture2D:
		currentRT as RenderTexture = RenderTexture.active
		RenderTexture.active = cam.targetTexture
		cam.Render()
		image as Texture2D = Texture2D(cam.targetTexture.width, cam.targetTexture.height)
		image.ReadPixels(Rect(0, 0, cam.targetTexture.width, cam.targetTexture.height), 0, 0)
		image.Apply()
		RenderTexture.active = currentRT
		return image