Framebuffer

Available since LÖVE 0.7.0

This type is not supported in earlier versions.

Removed in LÖVE 0.8.0

It has been renamed to Canvas.

A Framebuffer 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 Framebuffer, and then drawing the entire Framebuffer instead of each item, you can reduce the number of draw operations performed each frame.

Constructors

love.graphics.newFramebuffer

Creates a new Framebuffer.

Functions

Framebuffer:getImageData	Get stored ImageData.
Framebuffer:getWrap	Gets the wrapping properties of a Framebuffer.
Framebuffer:renderTo	Render to a framebuffer using a function.
Framebuffer:setWrap	Sets the wrapping properties of a Framebuffer.
Object:release	Immediately destroys the object's Lua reference.
Object:type	Gets the type of the object as a string.
Object:typeOf	Checks whether an object is of a certain type.

Supertypes

• Drawable
• Object

Examples

sample from the forum

http://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2136&hilit=Framebuffer&start=20

See Also

• love.graphics
• love.graphics.newFramebuffer
• love.graphics.setRenderTarget

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