Cannot Capture Thumbnail on Blueprint actor - UE5

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hi there,

I have a problem not sure if this is an Epic bug but I cannot capture Thumbnails selecting Actor Blueprint in UE 5.1. They just look Empty.

On the same blueprint in UE 4.27 works fine

Is there a way to fix this?

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Did you manage to do it? I’m looking for the same thing

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any clue on this?

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Blueprint Actors have their own 3D Thumbnail.
if you open up the BP, at the very bottom of the class defaulta, you see the thumbnail settings.

to give a BP Actor a custom thumbnail, mostly a Plugin is needed… like Custom Thumbnails.
This again don’t generate Thumbnails on their own… but you can add an Image (Screenshot or Icon) as thumbnail to any BP Actor

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Ah, thanks. I came here looking for the same issue.

I personally don’t like this change. It was quick and convenient being table to snap a thumbnail from the viewport. The function is still there for other assets like levels. I don’t understand why they had to completely remove it for blueprints. The best I can get is a thumbnail of the widgets UI which most of mine do not scale to intuitive thumbnails :confused: