TArray<FVector> to Render Target pixels/Canvas - how to do it FAST?

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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Hi,
I need to pass an array of vectors(RTS Unit positions) to niagara per frame

As Set Niagara Vector Array Function doesn’t work (temporarily???) for some reason, I need to find another solution
First thing I thought was passing every unit’s position to UCanvasRenderTarget pixels, and I think it’s a good idea, I got it to work BUT:

I got it to work by drawing empty texture By UCanvas::DrawTexture on pixel coordinates and setting RenderColor to the vector value (doing this for each unit)

In result, when having 1000 units I get 2000 DispatchCanvasRenderCommands calls and an enormous performance drop

I believe there’s a more optimal approach

And I thought I found a solution, Making a UTexture2D from color array and then passing it to the canvas once per frame (this would generate much less calls I believe)
But UTexture2D objects use FColor instead of FLinearColor, and FColor only has values from 0 to 255, or from 0.f to 1.f

Aaaand at this point I’m out of ideas :frowning: Can anyone help me?
If there’s no solution, is there at least another way to pass vector arrays to niagara?

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you can find the maxium extent of your world and then clamp your unit locations from that range to a whatever range the FLinearColor or FColor accepts. If your world is massive, there will be small errors when recalculating the world positions, but this should work i think