Live desktop/screen capture in Godot?

clownfetish

I'm trying to display my computer's monitors within a Godot scene ideally as control nodes. The goal is to view the desktop within VR like the Oculus virtual desktop without the controller interaction. I'm targetting Windows 10 for this project.

clownfetish

This is how my desktop looks like in the Oculus desktop and I'd like to replicate this with/without the screen curvature.

TwistedTwigleg

I’m not sure if you can get the actual desktop display in Godot, at least not with anything built-in.

For displaying the screen, you can use a TextureRect node with the texture set to the display. You may want to set the expand property true and then the layout set to take the full rect, if you want it to take up the entire screen.

If you want to display the image in 3D, then you’ll want to use a MeshInstance node with the albedo texture set to the texture of the display. The GUI in 3D demo on the Godot demo repository may help as a reference.

Calinou

Godot doesn't provide a built-in way to capture the desktop as an image. You will likely have to write a C++ module of some kind (or use GDNative) to fetch the desktop as an image from the OS-specific API.