Is it possible to take a snapshot with the camera on device and use it as sprite?

[Tornado]

I searched the forum but couln't find such info.

So is that possible?
For example one usage could be that user makes a snapshop of his face, then he can define some crop area, when he is done I take that cropped image and use it as image next to his name where his score is shown.

 

[Comedy Rotten]

You may be able to do this with importing an image, but as for getting an image from a camera, that may be more difficult. There are a couple Android and iOS camera DLLs over in the marketplace, but I have not seen anything in the way of web cameras for getting a picture from them directly. I may be wrong here, and there probably is, but it beyond the scope of my knowledge.

 

[Tornado]

ok, it means there is no abstraction for this in GMS, but for every platform (Android, iOS) I have to do it separately with separate extensions or DLLs or whatever.
Is that correct?

@Comedy Rotten: putting the camera aside, you said "you may be able to do this with importing an image". From where I can import images in GMS?
I think I read here in the forum that you can't access any folders on the mobile device. So I guess the user also cannot upload his photo from his phone galery into GM game? If this would be possible I could live with that!
Also I read that it is possible to download an image from a website via http functionality.
Which approach did you have on your mind?

Thx for all answers!

 

[Comedy Rotten]

@Tornado After digging around, it looks like the method I was thinking of (sprite_add) appears to only work on Windows (and maybe Mac/Linux, though not very easily from what I gather). For Android and iOS, you may be stuck using DLLs as Lonewolf mentioned. The sandboxing of Game Maker games is a good feature, but one that makes certain tasks much more difficult; such is the conundrum of balancing security with usability.

 

[Tornado]

Ok thank you!

 

[PlayLight]

I searched the forum but couln't find such info.

So is that possible?
For example one usage could be that user makes a snapshop of his face, then he can define some crop area, when he is done I take that cropped image and use it as image next to his name where his score is shown.

Absolutely. I've use the exact same feature in a few of my application.
iOS Camera by Beneton Software
Android Camera by Cotarlea Paul
can both retrieve from front and/or back cameras and incl additional image prepping functions.
You can then use basic gml to construct a cropping ui for user interaction and save out the final result.

 

[Tornado]

Cool thank you!!!

 

[ashley.wells3372]

Absolutely. I've use the exact same feature in a few of my application.
iOS Camera by Beneton Software
Android Camera by Cotarlea Paul
can both retrieve from front and/or back cameras and incl additional image prepping functions.
You can then use basic gml to construct a cropping ui for user interaction and save out the final result.

Hi,
I'm looking to work on a project but it requires using the front camera of a mobile phone.
I have looked at the links that have been posted in the quote above but it just says I don't have access to that.
Is there something out there to do this or am I missing something?

Thanks in advance

 

[gnysek]

Is there something out there to do this or am I missing something?

Official extensions maybe: https://github.com/YoYoGames/GMEXT-MobileUtils - there's Camera module there, read more in docs: https://github.com/YoYoGames/GMEXT-MobileUtils/wiki/Functions#MobileMedia_Camera_Open .