Single player save game icon in-game creation.

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You can use the ‘HighResShot’ console command to take screenshots. This will automatically save the file to hard disk. You can then load this file into a texture and use it to draw on the HUD.

UTexture2D* SavegameTexture = Cast<UTexture2D>(StaticLoadObject(UTexture2D::StaticClass(), NULL, *(Path)));
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Hi Everyone

So I need help creating a picture from the camera that can then be used in game as a save game icon. and this all needs to be done in-game automatically.

All the save game stuff is working fine. I just need to get an icon so that the player knows what they are loading into.

I hope that makes sense.

I have found “scene capture 2d” That can capture video to a material that I could then put on a save screen using a “Render Target” but this is a dynamic video not a picture.

What I think I need is to make a screen capture function that saves the capture in my HUD materials folder with a spastic name and over weights the existing pic for that games save slot.

I imagine this is a pity common problem for any signal player game.

Thanks

Andrew

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I think you will need C++.

Here is how you laod it from hard disk:
https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/23440/loading-textures-at-runtime.html

As far as I know the image should reside somewhere down the UE4 game directory.

PS: Checkout the blueprint libraries provided by @Rama (you will find it in the forums). He has written several Blueprint nodes that will help you with stuff like these.

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Hi Mindfane thanks for your help.

I am a pit confused.

How do I tell the game to look somewhere outside of the game directory for a texture?

It’s the “You can then load this file into a texture” bit that I am not sure about how to do.

I am going to need to do this in C++ aren’t I.

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Thanks MindFane

I will look in to it

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there is an option in the scene capture 2d that said “Capture every Fram” disable it and it wil take only on screanshot

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tell me if you figured out

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I will look now… Thanks Amiot

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Yep that got it working. Thanks Amiot. I will post all the info and a working video shortly

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Just made a Video tut 10 min long.

Video is 160min away.

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Hey Andrew

thanks for sharing!

You wrote you where going to use the captured image for a savegame icon.
Im trying to do the same… but got stuck at writing the rendertarget into the savegame.

It always seems like it just stores a reference to my rendertarget … but i need the value to be stored.

How did you accomplish this?

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