Copy a Sprite onto an Image

[Stew_822]

You know how you can copy a sf::Image onto another sf::Image? This is a handy feature I'm using quite a bit in the game I'm making. However, I feel being able to copy an sf::Sprite onto a sf::Image would be extremely useful. When you copy a sf::Image you don't get the rotation, scale factors or anything. Because of this, instead of just using Rotate(), I'm going to have to use about 5 different images in my game. I think this would be a useful addition.

So basically, I would like to copy a sf::Sprite onto a sf::Image. It's just a suggestion

Awesome library, really simple, keep it up!

[Laurent]

So it's not a simple pixel copy, the sprite has to go through all the rendering steps (transform, rasterization, pixel shader, alpha blending, ...), which are all done by the graphics card. So it's not the simple pixel-based blit that SDL provides, it's a lot more complex.

Rendering to an image (just like to a window) is already implemented in SFML 2, with the RenderImage class.

Note that for simple copy, you can use the Image::Copy function. It's a simple pixel copy, but it's enough if you just want to compose an image from several ones. And it handles transparency

[Stew_822]

There we go then . You've already done it! I actually did have a look at the SFML 2 doc before I posted, but I only looked in the sf::Image class.

Well, thanks for such an awesome library and thanks for responding to my post