Snapshot of 3D scene?

[Phoonzang webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Heya, I need to be able to take a 'snapshot' of a 3D sprite at any given time, and store the snapshot in a bitmap cast member.

I have tried already like this

member("somebitmap").image = member("3dscene").image.duplicate()

but it stores the original state of the 3d scene, not its current state on the stage.

when I try this:

member("somebitmap").picture = the stage.picture.duplicate()

it takes a snapshot of the stage, but its just blank (doesnt have the 3d sprite)....

Has anyone done this before? If I could get access to the memory which holds the 3D sprite I could copy pixel by pixel the frame buffer into a bitmap member, but I don't know if this is possible.

Thanks
Cel

[Andrew Morton]

Switch off the directToStage of the 3d member/sprite, grab the part of the stage
where it is with copyPixels, then switch directToStage back on.

Andrew

[hairybobby webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I have a fairly simple example of this type of thing at

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