Is there a way to take an ingame high res screenshot in UE4?

Question

So I am developing a VR app in Unreal and I'd like to give the user the ability to take a screenshot in game through the click of a button.

I am currently taking a screenshot through a console command but, it doesn't allow me to change the file location of where it goes. I don't think it will be intuitive enough to users to look into the AppData folder.

Is there a way to change this file location?

Does anyone know of any other ways to take a screenshot in game in Unreal Engine and save it to a folder or something similar?

Is there a function library or anything I can utilize?

user_13545753 · Answer

Check this thread out: Unreal Engine 4 In-game Screenshot

You should continue to use the console command; it's the easiest way to do this in my opinion. In C++, you can expose your screenshot default folder with ProjectSavedDir(). That being said, you can get references of your screenshots and move them to another FPath location. For a bit of a better translation, take a look at these macros: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/API/Runtime/Core/Misc/FPaths/index.html

user_7703854 · Answer

I found a really easy way to change where the screenshot gets saved at. I was really surprised how easy it was actually. Essentially, all you have to do is add an argument to the console command.

HighResShot 1920x1080 filename="D:/Screenshots/screenshot.png"

However, you need to ensure that the file name is unique, otherwise it will just overwrite the screenshot every time.

I ended up just grabbing Time Now and appending the date inside of the screenshot name. So that it ended up looking something like this:

HighResShot 1920x1080 filename="D:/Screenshots/screenshot_2020-6-5-8-40-01.png"

Is there a way to take an ingame high res screenshot in UE4?

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