Daily Unreal Column #3 - High Resolution Screenshot

Every developer needs to make screenshots for their game at some point. Be it for marketing or to simply share it with their team or friends. Unreal Engine has a great tool to ensure they look great.

The tool is called High Resolution Screenshot and can be used in a two different ways.

First one is using editor user interface. In the viewport, press the dropdown button and select High Resolution Screenshot. Once pressed, a new window will pop up with some options to set. Pressing Capture will take the screenshot and save it to the Saved\Screenshots directory.

Second one is using a cheat command which is very handy especially when you want to capture a screenshot in a packaged game. To capture a screenshot open cheat command prompt by pressing tilde key (~) and type HighResShot. By default, the command will capture a screenshot in a resolution 4 times greater than the current game’s resolution. You can change it by adding a parameter at the end, or by passing a specific resolution:

HighResShot 2

or

HighResShot 3840x2160

You can find more details and an explanation to each parameter and option here in the official documentation of this tool.