In game photo booth?

[Hexapuss_Steve]

Is it possible via Unity script to trigger the Oculus save screenshot function so the player can save pictures with an in game button? 

Ideally the saved image will be from a separate pre-framed camera.

[MikeF · Accepted solution]

I dont think oculus has an API for this but you can just do it through unity
it would look something like this

RenderTexture rt = new RenderTexture(RES_WIDTH, RES_HEIGHT, 24);
RenderTextureCamera.targetTexture = rt;
Texture2D screenShot = new Texture2D(RES_WIDTH, RES_HEIGHT, TextureFormat.RGB24, false);
RenderTextureCamera.Render();
RenderTexture.active = rt;
screenShot.ReadPixels(new Rect(0, 0, RES_WIDTH, RES_HEIGHT), 0, 0);
screenShot.Apply();

Then to save it

byte[] bytes = screenShot.EncodeToJPG();
System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes(filename, bytes));

[Hexapuss_Steve]

Thanks @MikeF , I will give your solution a go!

DM me if you'd like a free game code for my game Metal Multiball.

Cheers! 

[Anonymous]

I have scripts doing this in my app - Unity, let me know if you need them.

[Hexapuss_Steve]

Thanks @lukeskywatcher , I hope you're doing great.

Do you use the same technique MikeF recommends?

[Anonymous]

Hey Steve, doing grand thanks, hope same for you. Using similar method as MikeF, I switch briefly to a 3rd person camera to take the shot. You can tweak to take pictures at current user resolution, or at fixed game resolution etc. Best luck!