Simple Map Screenshot

[cozziekuns]

Simple Map Screenshot
Version: 1.0
Author: cozziekuns, Zeus91
Date: September 5th, 2011

Version History

• <Version 1.0> 2011.05.09 - Original Release

Planned Future Versions

• Will look into adding support for events and characters.

Description

This script allows you to take a screenshot of a whole map, depending on the map id. The screenshot will not include the characters.

Features

• Configurable screenshot key
• Changable path for where you want to save the screenshot
• Can force a screenshot from Scene_Map.

Instructions

See script. This script requires my Tilemap to Bitmap Converter.

Script

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#
# This script requires my Tilemap to Bitmap Converter, which can be found at:
# http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Jmqcn5rq
#
#===============================================================================
# Simple Map Screenshot
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Version: 1.0
# Author: cozziekuns (rmrk)
# Last Date Updated: 9/5/2011
#===============================================================================
# Description:
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# This script allows you to take a screenshot of a whole map, depending on the
# map id. The screenshot will not include the characters.
#===============================================================================
# Updates
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# o 9/5/2011 - Started Script.
#===============================================================================
# To-do List
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# o May include support for characters and events.
#===============================================================================
# Instructions
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copy and paste this script above Main Process but below Materials. Change the
# modules as you wish.
#
# You can force a screenshot on the current map by using an event script call
# (split into three lines).
#
# id = $game_map.map_id
# b = $game_system.tilemap_to_bitmap(id)
# $scene.take_tilemap_screenshot(b)
#
# Scripters can force a screenshot from Scene_Map by using method
# take_tilemap_screenshot($game_system.tilemap_to_bitmap(map_id)), where map_id
# is the id of the map you want to force a screenshot of.
#===============================================================================

module COZZIEKUNS
 
  module MAP_SCREENSHOT
   
    SCREENSHOT_BUTTON = Input::F5
    SCREENSHOT_PATH = "Tilemap" # What the screenshot saves as
   
  end

end

#=============================================================================
# ** Bitmap Export by Zeus81
#=============================================================================

class Bitmap
 
  RtlMoveMemory_pi = Win32API.new('kernel32', 'RtlMoveMemory', 'pii', 'i')
  RtlMoveMemory_ip = Win32API.new('kernel32', 'RtlMoveMemory', 'ipi', 'i')
 
  def address
    RtlMoveMemory_pi.call(a = "\0" * 4, __id__ * 2 + 16, 4)
    RtlMoveMemory_pi.call(a, a.unpack('L')[0] + 8, 4)
    RtlMoveMemory_pi.call(a, a.unpack('L')[0] + 16, 4)
    a.unpack('L')[0]
  end
 
  def make_png(filename)
    file = File.open(filename, 'wb')
   
    def file.write_chunk(chunk)
      write([chunk.size-4].pack('N'))
      write(chunk)
      write([Zlib.crc32(chunk)].pack('N'))
    end
   
    file.write("\211PNG\r\n\32\n")
    file.write_chunk("IHDR#{[width,height,8,6,0,0,0].pack('N2C5')}")
    RtlMoveMemory_pi.call(data="\0"*(width*height*4), address, data.size)
    (width*height).times {|i| data[i<<=2,3] = data[i,3].reverse!}
    deflate, null_char, w4 = Zlib::Deflate.new(9), "\0", width*4
    (height-1).downto(0) {|i| deflate << null_char << data[i*w4,w4]}
    file.write_chunk("IDAT#{deflate.finish}")
    deflate.close
    file.write_chunk('IEND')
    file.close
  end
 
end

#==============================================================================
# ** Scene_Map
#==============================================================================

class Scene_Map < Scene_Base
 
  alias coz_terrainzoom_sm_update update
  def update(*args)
    coz_terrainzoom_sm_update(*args)
    if Input.trigger?(COZZIEKUNS::MAP_SCREENSHOT::SCREENSHOT_BUTTON)
      take_tilemap_screenshot($game_system.tilemap_to_bitmap($game_map.map_id)) rescue raise("This script requires Tilemap to Bitmap Convereter, which can be found at http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Jmqcn5rq")
    end
  end
 
  def take_tilemap_screenshot(bitmap)
    raise "#{bitmap} is not a bitmap" if not bitmap.is_a?(Bitmap)
    i = 1
    while FileTest.exist?(COZZIEKUNS::MAP_SCREENSHOT::SCREENSHOT_PATH + i.to_s + ".png")
      i += 1
    end
    bitmap.make_png(COZZIEKUNS::MAP_SCREENSHOT::SCREENSHOT_PATH + i.to_s + ".png")
  end
 
end


Credit

• cozziekuns
• Zeus91, for the Bitmap Exporter script

Support

Post down below.

Known Compatibility Issues

Will not work with parallax maps.

[Adon]

Will it work with SwapXT? Not just compatibility errors, but will it capture the swapped tiles, and not the tiles in the database?

[modern algebra]

Why not just try it and see?