Displaying a screenshot of the current screen

[DarkClaymore]

I'd like to know whether there are some built-in ways that allow (at least partially) to implement something like the second picture:




The idea is to automatically display a zoomed in portion of the current screen (or some layers of it) elsewhere on the screen, in this case to display part of the view inside the protagonist's camera.

I'd assume that the straightforward implementation would be something along the lines of:
> Take a screenshot of the current screen (perhaps while hiding layers which aren't meant to be displayed on the camera)
> Manipulate the taken image with crop/enlarge.
> Display it on top of the camera's sprite.

[PyTom]

I'd suggest just working with the original image. While we can take screenshots, those screenshots will be downscaled - you won't be able to blow it up like you do there.

What might make a lot of sense would be to create an image (like a livecomposite) and apply multiple Transforms to it, one for the background, one for the close-up.

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image kittybg = LiveComposite((1600, 1200), (0, 0), "schoolbg.png", (1200, 600), "kitty.png")
show kittybg at Transform(zoom=.5)
show kittybg as closeup at Transform(crop=(1200, 600, 400, 300), pos=(400, 100))
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[DarkClaymore]

Thanks for the reply, this works great

I have two follow up questions to this regarding the matter, here's hoping to make it more automatic.

- Is there a way for me to "sample" all the currently displayed sprites on screen and to collect their data into an list?
The idea is to compose the camera's screen display automatically from the current display of the screen, without me having to manually input the parameters each and every the time. As you said, directly zooming-in a screenshot would indeed wreck the quality, which is why the kind of info I'll probably need about each displayed sprite would be image dimensions (to know the scaling needed) and the path to the original picture (Which I have a feeling I'll need to store myself in some list).


- There is something I'm missing regarding how Renpy language and Python are integrated. When I do something like this:

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$ Kitten_Pos = (557, 297)
image kittybg = LiveComposite((800, 600), (0, 0), "StreetBG.jpg", Kitten_Pos, "Kitten.png")

It tells me that "Kitten_Pos" isn't defined for the method call of LiveComposite. Is there some sort of scope issue?