Make a texture from front or back buffer
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Hi, I actually works on a port for an emu to xbox but I have a problem, I really don t know anything in direct3d, what I need is to get the frontbuffer from
IDirect3DDevice8 *g_pDevice;
and to copy it in a new texture (let s call it LPDIRECT3DTEXTURE8 PgTexture; )
I think I must use a D3DLOCKED_RECT Rect; and copy every pixel from backbuffer to the texture, but I really don t know how it works, if someone can help me :) .
Hope it is clear enough :D .
why copy the front (or back) buffer to a texture? instead just render to the texture instead of the back buffer. See SetRenderTarget(), as well as search for samples on render to texture. Also if you need to display the scene, either render the texture on a quad to the backbuffer, or rerender the scene depending on which would work better (you dont specify why you need render to a texture).
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Quote:Original post by qazlop
why copy the front (or back) buffer to a texture? instead just render to the texture instead of the back buffer. See SetRenderTarget(), as well as search for samples on render to texture. Also if you need to display the scene, either render the texture on a quad to the backbuffer, or rerender the scene depending on which would work better (you dont specify why you need render to a texture).
I need to get it on a texture, to display a little image of the game in the background, I have a render fonction to do that but it needs a texture, that s why :) , hope it is clear enough, or I ll post a screen :) .
// i dont know if this will work because i havnt tried it// i made it using info i found on the netLPDIRECT3DTEXTURE9 createTextureFromRT(){ LPDIRECT3DSURFACE9 surface; D3DSURFACE_DESC surfDesc; LPDIRECT3DTEXTURE9 texture; LPDIRECT3DSURFACE9 texSurface; // get the back surface and its description device->GetRenderTarget(0, &surface); surface->GetDesc(&surfDesc); // create a texture the same as the back surface device->CreateTexture(surfDesc.Width, surfDesc.Height, 0, D3DUSAGE_AUTOGENMIPMAP, surfDesc.Format, D3DPOOL_DEFAULT, &texture, NULL); // get the textures surface texture->GetSurfaceLevel(0, &texSurface); // copy the back surface to the textures surface D3DXLoadSurfaceFromSurface(texSurface, NULL, NULL, surface, NULL, NULL, D3DX_DEFAULT, 0); // release both surfaces texSurface->Release(); surface->Release(); // and your left with a a d3d texture containing the back surface return texture;}edit:
I have tried it now and it doesnt appear to work
edit:
It works now but its showing the image flipped
[Edited by - eFoDay on March 28, 2005 6:34:28 PM]
To use the back buffer for anything you need to specify D3DPRESENTFLAG_LOCKABLE_BACKBUFFER at device creation -- this will slow things down.
You can copy from one surface to another using D3DXLoadSurfaceFromSurface. Use the SurfaceLevel(0) of your texture as the target.
DX9 and your hardware may support multiple render targets. If this is the case, you can render to the screen and a target at the same time -- there are a lot of restrictions (sizes and such) on use though and it simply may not work for your application. see: SetRenderTarget (as qazlop suggested).
You can also simply render all of your stuff twice, once to the screen and once to a target (your texture).
You can copy from one surface to another using D3DXLoadSurfaceFromSurface. Use the SurfaceLevel(0) of your texture as the target.
DX9 and your hardware may support multiple render targets. If this is the case, you can render to the screen and a target at the same time -- there are a lot of restrictions (sizes and such) on use though and it simply may not work for your application. see: SetRenderTarget (as qazlop suggested).
You can also simply render all of your stuff twice, once to the screen and once to a target (your texture).
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Hello, I just tried the code above, it works perfectly well (with some changes as xbox supports only directx8), thank you guys :D .
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