Asset - Extension Desktop Screenshots - capture any portion of the display!

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This extension allows for a variety of things regarding taking screenshots of desktop - you can get a screenshot of entire desktop, or capture a part of it, or even get a screenshot of all displays on multi-monitor setups (particularly convenient if your game had been moved away from the primary screen).

Images of screen can be captured into surfaces (for drawing) and/or buffers (for storage/later recovery) - see doc for more information.

As such, this can be used for a variety of things:
  • Screensavers (like the standard "Bubbles" one)
  • Using a screenshot of the player's desktop as a game background
  • Custom screenshot tools (there's always space for improvements)
  • Timelapse recorders (ditto)
  • GIF recorders (within reasonable)
  • Custom accessibility tools (magnifiers, previewing a portion of a screen through a shader - see demo)
  • (and so on)
Supported versions: GMS2 (GMS1 has an issue on some GPUs)

Supported platforms: Windows, Windows (YYC)

Source code included!
 
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