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title: Creating a New Node By Rendering To a Texture
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# Creating a New Node By Rendering To a Texture

Render a portion of the node tree into a new texture.

## Overview

Overview You can create a texture from some portion of on-screen content with texture(from:), or its variation, texture(from:crop:). Both of these functions are available for scenes rendered by SKView or WKInterfaceSKScene. There are a couple reasons you might want to do this, for example: Creating a new sprite node whose texture reflects prior shading done with SKShader Flattening a hierarchy of nodes into a texture, either for performance, or to apply some effect. Note that this can also be done using SKEffectNode and setting shouldRasterize to true. Breaking appart an existing node into separate nodes, for example, for an explosion effect.

## See Also

### Snapshotting Nodes to a Texture

- [texture(from:crop:)](spritekit/skview/texture(from:crop:).md)
- [texture(from:)](spritekit/skview/texture(from:).md)