Making Screenshots at Runtime

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Unigine;

[Component(PropertyGuid = "AUTOGENERATED_GUID")] // <-- this line is generated automatically for a new component
public class ScreenshotMaker : Component
{
	public enum Format
	{
		tga = 0,
		png,
		jpg
	}

	public enum State
	{
		STATE_START = 0,
		STATE_WARMUP,
		STATE_SAVE,
		STATE_DONE,
	};

	[ShowInEditor]
	private string namePrefix = "screenshot";

	[ShowInEditor]
	[ParameterSlider(Min = 1)]
	private int width = 640;

	[ShowInEditor]
	[ParameterSlider(Min = 1)]
	private int height = 480;

	[ShowInEditor]
	private Format format = Format.png;

	[ShowInEditor]
	private bool alphaChannel = false;

	private Image image = null;
	private Viewport viewport = null;
	private int count = 0;

	private State state = State.STATE_DONE;
	const int warmup_frames = 30;
	int warm_up_count = 0;

	private void Init()
	{
		image = new Image();
		viewport = new Viewport();
		viewport.SkipFlags = Viewport.SKIP_VISUALIZER;

		Unigine.Console.Onscreen = true;
		Unigine.Console.OnscreenMessageLine(vec4.GREEN, "Screenshot component is initialized.");
	}

	private void Update()
	{
		Player player = Game.Player;
					
		if (player == null)
		{
			state = State.STATE_DONE;
			Unigine.Console.OnscreenMessageLine(vec4.RED, "No active camera.");
			return;
		}

		if (state == State.STATE_DONE && Input.IsKeyDown(Input.KEY.T))
		{
			warm_up_count = 0;
			state = State.STATE_WARMUP;
			Unigine.Console.OnscreenMessageLine(vec4.GREEN, "Trying to take a screenshot...");
		}

		if (state == State.STATE_WARMUP)
		{
			viewport.Mode = Render.ViewportMode;
			
			if (warm_up_count == 0)
			{
				// First frame we render with velocity buffer turned off to avoid temporal effects artifacts
				viewport.AppendSkipFlags(Viewport.SKIP_VELOCITY_BUFFER);
				viewport.RenderImage2D(player.Camera, image, width, height);
				viewport.RemoveSkipFlags(Viewport.SKIP_VELOCITY_BUFFER);
			}
			else
			{
				// We temporarily set exposure adaptation time to 0, otherwise the image may be too dark
				float exposureAdaptation = Render.ExposureAdaptation;
				Render.ExposureAdaptation = 0.0f;
				viewport.RenderImage2D(player.Camera, image, width, height);
				Render.ExposureAdaptation = exposureAdaptation;
			}
			
			warm_up_count++;
			if (warm_up_count == warmup_frames)
				state = State.STATE_SAVE;

			if (state == State.STATE_SAVE)
			{
				if (!alphaChannel || format == Format.jpg)
				{
					if (image.Format == Image.FORMAT_RGBA8)
						image.ConvertToFormat(Image.FORMAT_RGB8);
					else if (image.Format == Image.FORMAT_RGBA16F)
						image.ConvertToFormat(Image.FORMAT_RGB16F);
				}

				string fullName = $"{namePrefix}_{count}.{format}";
				image.Save(fullName);
				Unigine.Console.OnscreenMessageLine(vec4.GREEN, $"{fullName} saved.");

				count++;
				state = State.STATE_DONE;
			}
		}
	}
}