In-Game Model Viewer / Inspect items upclose

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I’m working on creating a UI using Slate. I currently have an inventory and items in that inventory. If I right click an item and go to “Info”, a new window will appear with text and display of the actual item. I want that window to look something like this:

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As you can see, there is a 3d model viewer preview of the weapon, it can be rotated and viewed by the player and allows them to look up close at it. I found the following post that is pretty much what I’m looking for but its dead: Creating an in-game model viewer? - Blueprint - Unreal Engine Forums

What Is the best way to go about doing this? Conceptually I would think its just another camera that views the 3d model and can be moved around by the player in a different way? Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

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Ideally, you want to create another scene in to which you render the object. This isn’t really easy, though. What you can do is place a small “scene” very far away from your level, place a scene capture 2d actor there, create a texture target resource in the content browser, assign it to the capture actor and use that texture to make a slate image. Then use that slate image on your UI.

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Hey! Thanks for the reply. Are their any examples/samples of something like this being done? If not that’s fine, I was thinking of doing something similar to what you mentioned.