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<function name="GetRenderTarget" parent="render" type="libraryfunc">⤶ <description>⤶ Returns the currently active render target.⤶ ⤶ Instead of saving the current render target using this function and restoring to it later, it is generally better practice to use <page>render.PushRenderTarget</page> and <page>render.PopRenderTarget</page>.⤶ </description>⤶ <realm>Client</realm>⤶ <rets>⤶ <ret name="" type="ITexture">The currently active Render Target</ret>⤶ </rets>⤶ </function>⤶ ⤶ <example>⤶ <description>Render something to a different render target, then restore the old render target</description>⤶ <code>⤶ local w, h = ScrW(), ScrH()⤶ local customRt = GetRenderTarget( "some_unique_render_target_nameeeee", w, h, true )⤶ ⤶ render.PushRenderTarget( customRt )⤶ render.Clear( 0, 0, 255, 255, true ) -- fill the background with blue!⤶ ⤶ -- draw all props on the blue background!⤶ for key, prop in pairs(ents.FindByClass( "prop_physics" )) do⤶ prop:DrawModel()⤶ end⤶ ⤶ -- save the picture to the garrysmod/data folder. ~format="jpg" will not work.⤶ local data = render.Capture({ format = "jpeg", quality = 70, x = 0, y = 0, h = h, w = w }) ⤶ local pictureFile = file.Open( "RenderTargetsAreAwesome.jpg", "wb", "DATA" ) ⤶ pictureFile:Write( data )⤶ pictureFile:Close()⤶ render.PopRenderTarget()⤶ </code>⤶ ⤶ </example>

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