Screenshot extension

This extension lets you save a screenshot of the running game in a specified folder.

Warning

The Take screenshot action only works on Windows, Linux and macOS desktop builds (and during a preview in the GDevelop editor). It does not work on HTML5/web exports, Android or iOS, because those platforms do not allow games to write arbitrary files to disk.

Note: As of GDevelop 5.0.0-beta92 the screenshot action is no longer an extension. Just add an action and search for screenshot or go to Other Actions/Screenshot/Take screenshot.

Actions

Take screenshot

Use this action to save a screenshot of everything which is currently drawn on the game window into a png file. If the save path does not end with .png, the extension is added automatically.

Parameters:

Save path: The file path where the screenshot should be saved.

The save path needs to be an absolute path on the file system (like C:\MyFolder\MyScreenshot.png on Windows).

Relative paths are not supported.

Note

In order to create a game that runs on all supported platforms you should use the special folders from the file system extension in combination with the path separator. These determine the path to common folders like Pictures, Documents or Desktop automatically. You can read more about it in this article.

Example

This path:

FileSystem::PicturesPath() + FileSystem::PathDelimiter() + "my_screenshot.png"

This will save the screenshot to the Pictures folder on Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Reference

All actions, conditions and expressions are listed in the screenshot extension reference page.