UnrealImageCapture in UE-5.3

[gdaddi]

These are the steps I followed to get a minimal version of this pipeline working.

I rebuilt the Plugin for UE-5.3, but could not get the Plugin to work properly (There were errors in the CameraCaptureManager_BP and I could not place it in the Editors).

Similarly to https://github.com/TimmHess/UnrealImageCapture/issues/35, I ended up porting the source files into a project (MyProject) and building everything in that project. Here are the notes I took along the way:

• Moved from UnrealImageCapture/Plugin_UE5, the files CameraCaptureManager.cpp, CameraCaptureManager.h to MyProject/Source/MyProject/.
• Solve the linking issues by modifying MyProject.Build.cs

public class MyProject : ModuleRules
{
	public MyProject(ReadOnlyTargetRules Target) : base(Target)
	{
		PCHUsage = PCHUsageMode.UseExplicitOrSharedPCHs;
	
		PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string[] { 
			"Core",
			"InputCore", 
			"ImageWrapper", 
			"RenderCore", 
			"Renderer", 
			"RHI",
			"CoreUObject",
			"Engine",
			"Slate",
			"SlateCore",
		});

}

• You should be able to compile the C++ code now using VSCode's build task.
• Check that things are working by looking for CameraCaptureManager in the Editor's content manager under C++ Classes.
• Drag and drop CameraCaptureManager into the viewport.
• Place a SceneCapture2D actor (from the Place Actor Panel)
• Set the CaptureComponent of CameraCaptureManager to point to the SceneCapture2D camera.
• Open the Level's Blueprint and connect a Capture Non Blocking function to a EnhancedInputComponent that triggers when the desired key-binding is pressed.
• Play the map, and press the selected capture key-binding.

[TimmHess]

Hey, sorry I am not very active on this anymore (especially with the pull request pending which is quite nice but ya.. there is barely time ':D). The prebuild plugin cannot work on any version different than the one it was compiled for - this is why I dropped it all altogether. Unfortunately, that sentence never made it into the readme as I realize now...

The way you did it is exactly how I intended it to be done. At some point, I tried to the entire thing more stand-alone but the maintenance is just not worth for me atm. Let's say I am happy that the codebase or interface did not change drastically so that this code can still function at all :)

Thanks for checking out the repo, I hope it will help you :high_brightness:

[Alioth5670]

hello @gdaddi. I followed the same steps as you to complete the code migration in 5.3, but I could only capture the color image, and there was only one empty picture when I captured the Mask image.

[Alioth5670]

I solved this problem by saving images in RGBA format, which had some problems displaying images on my computer, and using python to read them was no problem