I have a player creation screen. What I’d like to happen is when you press the accept button - it takes a picture of your character, and saves image. I’d then like to run an event that uses that image to update the player’s portrait on their HUD and in a lobby menu, etc. Any ideas? Thank you!
Hey there @drewjohnson71! So one way to do this would be to use a Scene Capture 2D to Render Texture to take the original shot, then export them to keep them as an asset and use that asset as a parameter for the material for on the portrait.
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The method from @SupportiveEntity is excellent. Here is an alternative method:
I think you can use the Screenshots Tool to take a screenshot and then load the image from your computer. Here is a tutorial: Import Images During Runtime | Community tutorial
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Oh that’s excellent! It’s likely also more performant than render targets in this regard. However if you do updating portraits or anything similar RTs would be needed for that feature.
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thank you!