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Expand Up @@ -642,11 +642,15 @@ setting it up was relatively involved.

This process has been streamlined, with the new [`EasyScreenshotPlugin`] allowing you to take a screenshot with consistent formatting with a single button press. With its default settings, once you add this plugin to your application, a PNG screenshot will be taken when you press the `PrintScreen` key. You can change the trigger key, or the screenshot format between PNG, JPEG or BMP.

We've taken this one step further, allowing you to record video directly from Bevy, with the new `EasyScreenRecordPlugin`. This plugins add a toggle key, space bar by default, that will toggle screen recording. Recording can also be started and stopped programmatically with the `RecordScreen` messages.
We've taken this one step further, allowing you to record video directly from Bevy, with the new [`EasyScreenRecordPlugin`]. This plugins add a toggle key, space bar by default, that will toggle screen recording. Recording can also be started and stopped programmatically with the [`RecordScreen`] messages.
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We've taken this one step further, allowing you to record video directly from Bevy, with the new [`EasyScreenRecordPlugin`]. This plugins add a toggle key, space bar by default, that will toggle screen recording. Recording can also be started and stopped programmatically with the [`RecordScreen`] messages.
We've taken this one step further, allowing you to record video directly from Bevy, with the new [`EasyScreenRecordPlugin`]. This plugin adds a toggle key, space bar by default, that will toggle screen recording. Recording can also be started and stopped programmatically with the [`RecordScreen`] messages.


Screen recording is currently not supported on Windows due to challenges with video codecs.
While all dev-tools features are off-by default, screen recording is a bit trickier to activate due to this limitation.
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While all dev-tools features are off-by default, screen recording is a bit trickier to activate due to this limitation.
While all dev-tools features are off by default, screen recording is a bit trickier to activate due to this limitation.

To enable it, toggle the `screenrecording` feature in the `bevy_dev_tools` crate.

[`EasyScreenshotPlugin`]: https://docs.rs/bevy/0.18.0/bevy/dev_tools/struct.EasyScreenshotPlugin.html
[`EasyScreenRecordPlugin`]: https://dev-docs.bevy.org/bevy/dev_tools/struct.EasyScreenRecordPlugin.html
[`RecordScreen]: https://dev-docs.bevy.org/bevy/dev_tools/enum.RecordScreen.html

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