How to take a screenshot and save to file as jpg?

Anonymous User 2757 16 Oct 2014

I am trying to Take a screencapture and save it to a file in jpg format.

This is what I have so far:

    string jpgFile = Application.persistentDataPath + "/scrn-1.jpg";
    Texture2D tex = new Texture2D (Screen.width, Screen.height);
    tex.ReadPixels (new Rect(0, 0, Screen.width, Screen.height), 0, 0);
    tex.Apply ();
    var bytes = tex.EncodeToJPG();
    Destroy (tex);
    System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes(jpgFile, bytes);

I have found that running this in Unity on iOS gives me:

JPEG parameter struct mismatch: library thinks size is 372, caller expects 360

However if I change the conversion to tex.EncodeToPNG(); and change the file name to .png everything works fine. I am not sure how to proceed any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks.

Ask by Anonymous User

Updated 16 Oct 2014

1 Answers

marcel ethan 16 Oct 2014

I found this, which lets you save it as .jpg. I normally just use capture screen and save as .png.

Here you go:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class HiResScreenShots : MonoBehaviour {
    public int resWidth = 2550; 
    public int resHeight = 3300;
    private bool takeHiResShot = false;
    public static string ScreenShotName(int width, int height) {
        return string.Format("{0}/screenshots/screen_{1}x{2}_{3}.png", 
                             Application.dataPath, 
                             width, height, 
                             System.DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss"));
    }
    public void TakeHiResShot() {
        takeHiResShot = true;
    }
    void LateUpdate() {
        takeHiResShot |= Input.GetKeyDown("k");
        if (takeHiResShot) {
            RenderTexture rt = new RenderTexture(resWidth, resHeight, 24);
            camera.targetTexture = rt;
            Texture2D screenShot = new Texture2D(resWidth, resHeight, TextureFormat.RGB24, false);
            camera.Render();
            RenderTexture.active = rt;
            screenShot.ReadPixels(new Rect(0, 0, resWidth, resHeight), 0, 0);
            camera.targetTexture = null;
            RenderTexture.active = null; // JC: added to avoid errors
            Destroy(rt);
            byte[] bytes = screenShot.EncodeToPNG();
            string filename = ScreenShotName(resWidth, resHeight);
            System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes(filename, bytes);
            Debug.Log(string.Format("Took screenshot to: {0}", filename));
            takeHiResShot = false;
        }
    }
}

If you just want any kind of picture I highly recommend this:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour 
{
    void OnMouseDown() 
    {
        Application.CaptureScreenshot("Screenshot.png");
    }
}

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