SDL: Render Texture on top of another texture

Question

i am having trouble with the following:

I need to render a texture on top of another texture and then render that main texture. For example I have the blue rectangle

Answer 1

First, you need to create your texture on which you want to draw with SDL_TEXTUREACCESS_TARGET flag. So create back texture like this:

back = SDL_CreateTexture(renderer, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_ARGB8888, SDL_TEXTUREACCESS_TARGET, 50, 50);

Then, when calling drawing functions, you need to set the back texture as the target, like so:

SDL_SetRenderTarget(renderer, back);

Then you draw what you want, and after that you change the target to null:

SDL_SetRenderTarget(renderer, NULL);

And render back texture:

SDL_RenderCopy(renderer, back, NULL, &some_rect);

Answer 2

Mars answer didnt work because it drew a black texture and nothing could be drawn on that.

But THIS WORKS!:

SDL_Texture* auxtexture = SDL_CreateTexture(ren, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_RGBA8888, SDL_TEXTUREACCESS_TARGET, 500, 500);

//change the rendering target

SDL_SetTextureBlendMode(auxtexture, SDL_BLENDMODE_BLEND);
SDL_SetRenderTarget(ren, auxtexture);

//render what we want
triangle->render(ren); //render my class triangle e.g


//change the target back to the default and then render the aux

SDL_SetRenderTarget(ren, NULL); //NULL SETS TO DEFAULT
SDL_RenderCopy(ren, auxtexture, NULL, canvas->drect);
SDL_DestroyTexture(auxtexture);

Cheers.