Overview

The OWL Screen Capture Actor let's you capture your Monitor or any Desktop Window direct into Unreal Engine as a Render Target.

• It works with multiple Monitors and Windows.

• It includes cursor capture.

• It will only work on the machine that Unreal Editor or your project/ game is installed to.

Performance

• The OWL Screen Capture uses texture sharing so will have little to no impact on your Unreal Engine frame rate.

• It is 8bit color only.

• It will respect the frame rate of your input source but if this is very high or the input source is very high resolution Unreal will start to struggle.

• You can capture multiple simultaneous inputs but if you run many at the same time Unreal may start to struggle since it has to render them all in your scene.

• We recommend to use it in combination with the Unreal Media Plate to have exact color replication of your input source and no ghosting/ blurred images.

• You can set this up automatically through our Media Input Wizard.

Set-Up and Features

1. Drag-and-drop the OWL Screen Capture Actor into your scene and go to its Details panel:

   

2. You can select between Monitor and Window Capture and you need to select or create a Render Target to write the pixels to.

   

3. If you select Monitor Capture you will have a list of the Monitors connected to your GPU:

   

4. If you select Window Capture you will have a list of the Windows active on your Desktop:

   

5. Select Active to switch the capture on

6. Select Capture Cursor if you want you cursor to show in the capture.

Blueprint Set-Up

Set a Specified Window in your Game

Trouble-Shooting

• The Screen Capture is generally reliable without many issues.

• If you have many different Windows on your machine and you close windows while they are being captured you may create ‘ghost’ entries in the windows list.