How would you take a screenshot of scenery without the player's screen switching

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#1

Right so I was trying to make it so that I could place a camera down and take a screenshot and request the player to save this. Examples are in games such as Dead Rails.

Basically what I have created is the same as this lad, but instead I do not want you to see the camera teleporting for a split moment.

How would I go about taking a screenshot for the player, which is positioned somewhere other than the player’s camera is?

I have tried to set the CFrame of the player’s camera just before the screenshot is taken and set it back. This sadly still shows the camera getting moved.

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local CaptureService = game:GetService("CaptureService")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

local player = Players.LocalPlayer
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera

local customCameraCFrame = CFrame.new(Vector3.new(0, 50, 0), Vector3.new(0, 0, 0)) -- Position at (0,50,0) looking at (0,0,0)

local function captureScreenshot()
    if not player or not camera then return end

    local originalCFrame = camera.CFrame
    local originalType = camera.CameraType

    camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
    camera.CFrame = customCameraCFrame

    CaptureService:CaptureScreenshot(function(contentId)
        camera.CFrame = originalCFrame
        camera.CameraType = originalType

        CaptureService:PromptSaveCapturesToGallery({contentId}, function(results)
            if results[contentId] then
                print("Screenshot saved successfully.")
            else
                print("Screenshot save was declined.")
            end
        end)
    end)
end


local ContextActionService = game:GetService("ContextActionService")

local function onScreenshotRequest(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
    if inputState == Enum.UserInputState.Begin then
        captureScreenshot()
    end
end

ContextActionService:BindAction("TakeScreenshot", onScreenshotRequest, false, Enum.KeyCode.P)

Would I instead need to set the CFrame of the camera when CaptureBegan is called and set it back when CaptureEnded is called?

#2

After messing about with these 2 functions they never get called, honestly no clue why they shouldn’t seen as I call everything as it is supposed to. There is a possibility this is due to me testing it in roblox studio instead of roblox.

local CaptureService = game:GetService("CaptureService")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera

local originalCFrame = camera.CFrame

local customCFrame = CFrame.new(Vector3.new(0, 50, 0), Vector3.new(0, 0, 0)) 

local function onCaptureBegan()
	print("Began!")
	camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
	camera.CFrame = customCFrame
end

local function onCaptureEnded()
	print("Ended!")
	camera.CFrame = originalCFrame
	camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Custom
end

CaptureService.CaptureBegan:Connect(onCaptureBegan)
CaptureService.CaptureEnded:Connect(onCaptureEnded)

local function captureScreenshot()	
	CaptureService:CaptureScreenshot(function(contentId)
		CaptureService:PromptSaveCapturesToGallery({contentId}, function(results)
			if results[contentId] then
				print("Screenshot saved successfully.")
			else
				print("Screenshot save was declined.")
			end
		end)
	end)
end

local ContextActionService = game:GetService("ContextActionService")

local function onScreenshotRequest(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
	if inputState == Enum.UserInputState.Begin then
		captureScreenshot()
	end
end

ContextActionService:BindAction("TakeScreenshot", onScreenshotRequest, false, Enum.KeyCode.P)
#3

Try setting the Camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable to Scriptable before capturing.

EDIT: Didn’t see you already have sorry

#4

Yeah so in both of the code examples I provide that is what I am doing.

What I want to accomplish is making it so that you do not see your camera jumping from your player to the actual screenshot. Like the game Dead Rails

Or even understand how this lad made his code. If you look at the video, the photo’s CFrame is in front of the player’s head unlike what I am doing (either you notice the camera jumping, or the camera does not jump and it takes a screenshot of what the player is seeing instead of the position I applied).

Edit: Just realized I was doing the same as the lad, but what I instead want is the player not to notice the camera changing.