Help! Need to Extract Material File during RUNTIME.

I have a strange goal I must accomplish and I'm pulling my hair out.

I have some scripts running that are generating maps in Unity. These maps and certain materials in them only exist after pressing PLAY. If I PAUSE I can access scene hierarchy and do some edits.

My problem is some of the Material Texture files are only generated during RUNTIME (PLAY). I see the file under material and Albedo.

Is there anyway I can get this material that is being processed at RUNTIME to an image file??

 

i'm looking for the same , did you find a solution ?

 

You have to understand the difference between material and texture. You cant "get this material to an image file" (you can bake it but its probably not what you mean). You can save your texture by writing an editor tool for it, that would get the texture from material, create new asset for it and save it in the asset database.

Alternatively you can output your texture into a png https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ImageConversion.EncodeToPNG.html

Second case can be built into the game itself, and does not require editor scripting.