Rendering using transform offset

[colourclash]

Hi,
I'm having difficulty rendering a copy of a container into renderTexture when the container has some transformation.
I'm aware of the transform parameter on the renderer.render method, but don't really understand how it's properly used - any enlightenment would be appreciated!
Here's a fiddle which hopefully illustrates my problem http://jsfiddle.net/5mydwyxd/12/
Cheers!

[ivan.popelyshev]

Its only for x/y offset, and it has some bugs. Its suitable only for caching stuff into textures.

Can you find a workaround, how not to use it? I feel like that implementation will be changed soon so its better not to depend on it.

I dont understand what are you tring to achieve.

[colourclash]

Okay, thanks Ivan, good to know that's work-in-progress.
I guess by moving the render source to the origin before rendering e.g. http://jsfiddle.net/5mydwyxd/13/
Should be enough for now  

[bubamara]

Setting container position to 0, 0 and also having running tween ain't good. Furthermore it won't work in case you'll be rotating your container.

I have updated your fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/5mydwyxd/23/

[colourclash]

Ah, thanks! That's what I was trying to do!  
As a general rule, should you pass in the inverse transform of the source object to the render method?
app.renderer.render(container, rt, true, container.transform.worldTransform.clone().invert())

[bubamara]

You're welcome. And yes to using inverse transform

[colourclash]

Still having trouble applying this to my project, it seems nested containers don't play nice
http://jsfiddle.net/5mydwyxd/26/

I'm looking for a reliable 'render to texture' in PIXI and not having much joy.

To be specific, I have a nested container with some bitmap text in it. I'd like to render this container to a texture and use that as a sprite mask.
It was working in an older version of PIXI using generateTexture method, but I'd like to use the latest PIXI version.

Any ideas are most appreciated

[bubamara]

then use localTransform instead

app.renderer.render(container, rt, true, container.transform.localTransform.clone().invert());

 

[colourclash]

Ah, yes! Silly me  that's working cool now.
Thank you bubamara and Ivan!