Desktop Screenshots for Unity

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This package allows you to capture arbitrary regions of user's desktop into Texture2Ds - from capturing small snippets to performing multi-display captures of entire desktops. It also includes a few functions for enumerating user's displays.

This can be used for a variety of things:

• Screensavers involving the desktop beneath
  (like "Bubbles" in Win7+; see DSS-Screensaver demo)
• Integrating parts or entirety of user's desktop into game elements
  (see BLAWK, which used GM version of this package)
• Custom screenshot/timelapse tools
• GIF recorders (within reasonable - see notes)
• Accessibility tools (magnifiers, previewing a portion of a screen through a shader - see DSS-Magnifier demo)
• (and so on)

Supported platforms: Windows (x86), Windows (x86_64)
Supported runtimes: Mono, IL2CPP
Supported versions: Unity 4.0+
No DLLs involved, no additional dependencies, includes source code!