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Canvas
Available since LÖVE 0.8.0 |
It has been renamed from Framebuffer. |
A Canvas is used for off-screen rendering. Think of it as an invisible screen that you can draw to, but that will not be visible until you draw it to the actual visible screen. It is also known as "render to texture".
By drawing things that do not change position often (such as background items) to the Canvas, and then drawing the entire Canvas instead of each item, you can reduce the number of draw operations performed each frame.
![]() | A Canvas is susceptible to power of 2 syndrome. |
Constructors
love.graphics.newCanvas | Creates a new Canvas. |
Functions
Canvas:clear | Clears content of a Canvas. |
Canvas:getImageData | Get stored ImageData. |
Canvas:getWrap | Gets the wrapping properties of a Canvas. |
Canvas:renderTo | Render to a Canvas using a function. |
Canvas:setWrap | Sets the wrapping properties of a Canvas. |
Object:type | Gets the type of the object as a string. |
Object:typeOf | Checks whether an object is of a certain type. |
Supertypes
Examples
sample from the forum
http://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2136&start=20
See Also