Render image of character equipped weapon for inventory screen

Development Rendering
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I am currently setting up my inventory and would like to have a render of the characters weapon to display.

Usually I would just create an image in photo shop to do this. In my game the weapon will have a random skin applied to it on pickup so I would like to render the image with the skin as it is.

I have somewhat achieved this by using a camera and a SceneCaptureComponent2D. The only issue with this is that I want to have a transparent background in the rendered texture.

Does anyone know of a way I can achieve this?

2

Create a green screen with a plain mesh and an unlit green material, place it behind the gun before you render to texture, then chroma key it out in the texture

3

Perfect thanks for that.

Would you create a separate blueprint for this or add it in to the existing weapon blueprint and just hide the green screen in game?

4

last time I did it I put it in the weapon BP and then just hid it after capture