PIXI.BaseRenderTexture

Hint: All DisplayObjects (i.e. Sprites) that render to a BaseRenderTexture should be preloaded otherwise black rectangles will be drawn instead.

A BaseRenderTexture takes a snapshot of any Display Object given to its render method. The position and rotation of the given Display Objects is ignored. For example:

let renderer = PIXI.autoDetectRenderer();
let baseRenderTexture = new PIXI.BaseRenderTexture({ width: 800, height: 600 });
let renderTexture = new PIXI.RenderTexture(baseRenderTexture);
let sprite = PIXI.Sprite.from("spinObj_01.png");

sprite.position.x = 800/2;
sprite.position.y = 600/2;
sprite.anchor.x = 0.5;
sprite.anchor.y = 0.5;

renderer.render(sprite, {renderTexture});

The Sprite in this case will be rendered using its local transform. To render this sprite at 0,0 you can clear the transform

sprite.setTransform()

let baseRenderTexture = new PIXI.BaseRenderTexture({ width: 100, height: 100 });
let renderTexture = new PIXI.RenderTexture(baseRenderTexture);

renderer.render(sprite, {renderTexture});  // Renders to center of RenderTexture