☑ How to get pixel data of application-canvas?

[Leonidas]

If you want to avoid preserving the drawing buffer for performance reasons check this thread on how to render on texture and grab pixel data from there:

Save specific rendered entities to image

@max is it possible to render specific elements to some offscreen canvas? I would like to take a screenshot of the current without GUI elements. With my current code I get a flickering for some milliseconds as I am enabling/disabling entities on the main canvas. I am doing something like this: this.enableGUIEntities(false); window.setTimeout(function(){ this.renderToTexture(function(base64){ this.enableGUIEntities(true); downloadImage(base64); }.bind(this) …