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When I call this in Android, this gives me back a PixelBox full of 0s ... all black. I think it's because in EGLWindow::copyContentsToMemory we are calling glReadPixels with format GL_RGB. With any format other than GL_RGBA it results in GL_INVALID_OPERATION and so it never touched the PixelBox's data. Forcing the format to GL_RGBA does fix the issue, but methods like RenderTarget::writeContentsToFile are always going to pass down a PixelBox with PixelFormat PF_BYTE_RGB when called from a RenderWindow because of suggestPixelFormat being overridden.

I just hacked my version so it works, but I'm a bit lost on how this could be patched properly. Maybe it's as simple as overriding suggestPixelFormat from EGLWindow, assuming this issue affects all GLES2 devices, or AndroidEGLWindow if it's Android specific? ... I'll do some more testing

Just got the same issue on Android with Ogre 1.10 ^^

Do you have more infos on this ?
Or should I just make my own writeContentsToFile function for android and set the correct pixel format ?

I was working with this function to render down videos of level playthroughs on-the-fly. There are better methods for gles3 than what Ogre has implemented, but I still didn't have a chance to test this on iOS because I probably won't implement this feature in the end. Anyway I don't think I ever submitted a PR because I was going to wait and see if I had to patch all of gles2 or just android.

Anyway long story short, just patch your suggestPixelFormat (in either EGLWindow or AndroidEGLWindow, your call) to return the correct pixel format.

ok thanks.

yes I just implemented the same code from copyContentsToMemory and changed the pixel format. So it's working for now on android.
I'll check this on IOS once I got my things working on it.