Unreal Engine - create dynamic icons from skeletal meshes 

I found some neat things while playing around with my own game. - You can select "Visible In Scene Capture Only" on the Static/Skeletal Mesh Component and it would be hidden for the player's camera - You can set the lighting channel of the light source and SM to have custom lighting separate from your regular lights. - You can turn off "Capture Every Frame", "Capture on Movement", and "Always Persist Rendering State" on the capture component and capture scene at the end of the construction script to keep the capture on the RT and won't lag your game but only works for completely static items (No animations) - You can use the show only component to only show the static mesh component just make sure it's visible and not hidden in game. (Lighting still works) - You can disable/enable the capture scenes when inventory is closed to save on frames Doing all of these allows you to place your capture actor anywhere in the world and have a smoother game.

You are GOATED for making this tutorial. Saved me so much time searching how to do this

This gave me great ideas. Since I am using this with full characters I found I had to disable collision on the camera. Took me a while to figure it out.

This tut rescued me thanks. The guy from the other tutorial was using non-Canvas render target so I spend quite a lot of time trying to enable it for UI widget. Now I wonder how it is performant to have a material instance per item entity, this might be become quite expensive with increased number of items to render. Also, as I understand overall rendering to texture is quite expensive operation (you basically render a scene twice without ability to parallelize it so I wound not recommend to render it every frame. Better is to use "Render Scene" node once the inventory is open or when asset is loaded

Great tutorial. I am having an issue I am wondering if you encountered. The icon always ends up being the last one. So, for example, if I pick up 3 different items, the icons are all the same. Any thoughts?

Hello, very useful and interesting video. I'm also creating a similar system at the moment, but I need to dynamically change the texture of the material in my niagara, in my vector, through a widget, for some reason I can't do it.

Please speak more about the nodes and blueprints. Or at least show them more and explain them. How to turn the mesh up or down is not that complicated.