The Hiraeth ASCII Art Toolkit is an editor utility widget for Unreal Engine that allows you to convert textures or live editor viewport scenes into ASCII art.
It includes an intuitive UI for customization and real-time previews, along with supporting materials for use in UI, post-process effects, and flipbooks.

Key Features

• Convert textures or live editor scene view into ASCII art
• Real-time preview and adjustable output
• Export results as plain text
• Includes customizable materials for Post Process, UI and Flipbooks.

Modes:

• Texture Mode: Select a texture to convert.
• Scene Mode: Convert the current editor viewport.

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• Post Process Material: For applying ASCII effect to the rendered scene.
• UI Material: Use in widgets to display ASCII-style visuals.
• Flipbook Material: Useful for animated ASCII art.

All materials support custom character sets for full visual control.

• For square images, keep Aspect Ratio at 2 for correct scaling.
• If ASCII appears stretched or squashed, tweak the Aspect Ratio value.
• Use Style and Character Sets to customize the art’s tone and contrast.