Fetching and displaying avatars

⚠️ Legacy Documentation

The APIs described by this section have been replaced by newer alternatives. If you're not yet using these APIs, please see the recommended alternatives:

• To display avatars in UMG widgets, use the avatar widget instead.

Epic Online Services does not yet have support for avatars; even Epic Games accounts don't have avatars on their profiles.

However, native platforms such as Steam have avatars. When you sign in with a native platform, you might be displaying accounts from platforms such as Steam, which do support avatars.

To allow you to display avatars for native platforms, EOS implements the IOnlineAvatar interface.

To fetch an avatar, call:

Online::GetAvatarInterface(OSS)->GetAvatar(
    LocalUserId,
    TargetUserId,
    DefaultAvatar,
    FOnGetAvatarComplete::CreateLambda([](bool bWasSuccessful, TSoftObjectPtr<UTexture> ResultTexture) {

    }));

This API call is also available via Online Subsystem Blueprints.

You should cache the result of this call, as the avatar will be downloaded/fetched each time GetAvatar is called.

Avatars are currently supported on the following platforms:

• Steam
• Discord
• Oculus
• itch.io