DxCreateRenderTarget

This function creates a render target element, which is a special type of texture that can be drawn on with the dx functions. Successful render target creation is not guaranteed, and may fail due to hardware or memory limitations.

To see if creation is likely to fail, use dxGetStatus. (When VideoMemoryFreeForMTA is zero, failure is guaranteed.)

[[{{{image}}}|link=|]]	Tip: Use dxSetBlendMode to get better quality

[[{{{image}}}|link=|]]	Tip: It is highly recommended that dxSetTestMode is used when writing and testing scripts using dxCreateRenderTarget.

[[{{{image}}}|link=|]]	Note: Render targets are usually cleared when the player minimizes MTA (i.e. alt-tab). See onClientRestore for details on when to restore any fixed content.

Syntax

element dxCreateRenderTarget ( int width, int height [, bool withAlpha = false ] )

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Method: DxRenderTarget(...)

Required Arguments

• width : The width of the texture in pixels.
• height : The height of the texture in pixels.
• withAlpha: The render target will be created with an alpha channel. 'false' will turn images' alpha channels to black color

Returns

Returns a texture element if successful, false if the system is unable to create a render target.

You should always check to see if this function has returned false.

Explanation

What is a rendertarget? A rendertarget is like a big, white paper(or if you set alpha to true, it will be a transparent paper) that you can draw on, after you drawn on it, you can draw it as many times as you like, without impacting performance. It could be used for dashboard, where a few hundred dxDraw* functions are called, so, instead of calling these every frame, you can just draw it on a render target, and draw the render target, instead of every information one by one.

Example

local myRenderTarget

addEventHandler("onClientResourceStart", resourceRoot,
    function()
        myRenderTarget = dxCreateRenderTarget(250, 100, true)     -- Create a render target

        if (myRenderTarget) then 
            updateRenderTarget()
        end
    end
)

addEventHandler( "onClientRender", root,
    function()
        if myRenderTarget then
            -- Draw the render target lots of times in different positions on the screen
            dxDrawImage(350, 50, 250, 100, myRenderTarget)
            dxDrawImage(450, 380, 250, 100, myRenderTarget)
            dxDrawImage(550, 250, 250, 100, myRenderTarget)
            dxDrawImage(650, 70, 250, 100, myRenderTarget)
        end
    end
)

--
-- Function to draw text to our render target with '''modulate_add''' blend mode when the 'r' key is pressed
--
function updateRenderTarget()
    dxSetRenderTarget(myRenderTarget, true)
    dxSetBlendMode("modulate_add")  -- Set 'modulate_add' when drawing stuff on the render target

    dxDrawText("Hello " .. getTickCount(), 10, 10, 0, 0, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 2, "clear")    -- Draw a message
    dxDrawRectangle(10, 50, 40, 40, tocolor(math.random(255), math.random(255), math.random(255)))   -- Draw a square with random color

    -- ... etc, imagine you have a lot of dxDraw* calls to make, this is where render targets come in handy!

    dxSetBlendMode("blend")         -- Restore default blending
    dxSetRenderTarget()             -- Restore default render target
end
bindKey("r", "down", updateRenderTarget)

See Also

• dxConvertPixels
• dxCreateFont
• dxCreateRenderTarget
• dxCreateScreenSource
• dxCreateShader
• dxCreateTexture
• dxDrawCircle
• dxDrawImage
• dxDrawImageSection
• dxDrawLine
• dxDrawLine3D
• dxDrawMaterialLine3D
• dxDrawMaterialPrimitive
• dxDrawMaterialPrimitive3D
• dxDrawMaterialSectionLine3D
ADDED/UPDATED IN VERSION 1.6.0 r22271:
dxDrawModel3D
• dxDrawPrimitive
• dxDrawPrimitive3D
• dxDrawRectangle
• dxDrawText
• dxDrawWiredSphere
• dxGetBlendMode
• dxGetFontHeight
• dxGetMaterialSize
• dxGetPixelColor
• dxGetPixelsSize
• dxGetPixelsFormat
• dxGetStatus
• dxGetTextSize
• dxGetTextWidth
• dxGetTexturePixels
• dxIsAspectRatioAdjustmentEnabled
• dxSetAspectRatioAdjustmentEnabled
• dxSetBlendMode
• dxSetPixelColor
• dxSetRenderTarget
• dxSetShaderValue
• dxSetShaderTessellation
• dxSetShaderTransform
• dxSetTestMode
• dxSetTextureEdge
• dxSetTexturePixels
• dxUpdateScreenSource