cut out a part of a screen and draw it

[Vrx8]

so its like print screen/capture screen, but only at a specific part of the screen, like capturing half part of the screen, and then draw it.. is it possible ?

[Sir_Silver]

You can use love.graphics.newScreenshot to capture imagedata of your love window, but nothing outside of it.

[zorg]

If you do mean only a part of the game window/screen area contents though, then you can do it one of two ways:
- if you're specifically using a canvas there already, like for example, multiple small viewports in games like the settlers 2 or transport tycoon, then you can do that by getting the imagedata from the canvas itself;
- otherwise, you need to get the whole thing the way sir_silver said, and crop it after, probably by creating an ImageData with a smaller size, and using mapPixel on it.

[bartbes]

If you just want to draw it, can't you just the entire screen to a Canvas when you want to create the "screenshot", then draw part of that Canvas with a Quad?