Generating texture on runtime with Screen elements?

[mariogarranz]

I want to render a 2D texture and export it as an image (base64). Is there any built in to do this from existing UI elements (texts, images, etc.) or do I have to render these myself on an offscreen canvas element using standard HTML5 functions?

[Leonidas]

Hi @mariogarranz,

No there isn’t any built-in method to do that. @Sachet has done something similar, to render a texture from UI Elements and render it on to of a model.

Take a look at this post:

Write text on Model

Hii Guys, I wanted to write text on model. I am doing so by writing render layer to texture and then applying that texture to model.I don’t want any background color(background of text would be transparent) to text(draw text only).But text color is getting dull. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!!

[mariogarranz]

Thanks a lot.

[yaustar]

This project I did a while back may help where I take screenshots that could be downloaded from several camera angles: https://playcanvas.com/editor/scene/719944

[mariogarranz]

That will also help with encoding the texture. Thanks @yaustar!