Taking screenshot of the entire environment

Hello everyone,

I'm building sidescroll environments for a game. The camera only rendering a portion of the whole scene. Is there a way to take a screenshot of the entire environment, and setting a resolution at the same time?

First I tried to take screenshots of every part of it and clipping in photoshop but obviously doesn't fit right because of perspective hehe (a desperate and nonsense idea...).

So, perhaps if I can determine a point to be the perspective focus (suppose to be center of the scene) and a way to take this "forced enlarged screenshot" I think could it work..

Is like a panoramic photo but unlike take a 360º picture I'm just want the limits of my sidescroll environment.

Any ideas?

Thank you very much!

 

Maybe use an orthographic camera and render to a huge render texture resolution and save it?

 

Yeah, but I would like to preserve perspective either... I want to make some kind of illustration on this image. So orthographic camera would not work..

Thanks for your answer buddy!

 

What about a perspective camera that is really zoomed out, but its at such a high resolution that it would still work?

 

I would go with mbowen89's solution. Create a second camera and disable it by default.
When you do your screenshot, disable the primary, enable the 'screenshot cam', take the shot, then return to the main camera. The only downside to this is that there may be a flash on the screen that will make players go...WTF just happened? lol

But you could do some testing and find a solution on this track that would work I would imagine.

 

I don't think he is trying to do this in a live game, just to get footage out in editor.