Profile

A TALensman Profile is a data asset that holds everything your game configures for photo mode: camera limits and speeds, the time modes the player may use, lens ranges, filters, looks, characters, poses and expressions, lights, frames, aspect ratios, stickers, the logo, capture and clip settings, the UI class and the input layout.

Which profile is used

When photo mode opens, it uses the first of these:

1. the profile passed to Enter Photo Mode,
2. the profile of the Lensman Area the player stands in (the one with the highest Priority),
3. the Default Profile in Project Settings > Plugins > ta Lensman (/TALensman/DA_Lensman_Default out of the box),
4. built-in defaults.

The shipped default profile has the eight frames, sixty-one stickers in seven packs and the shutter sound; everything else is at the defaults below.

Make your own

1. Duplicate /TALensman/DA_Lensman_Default into your project’s content, or right-click in the Content Browser and choose Miscellaneous > Data Asset > TALensman Profile.

2. Fill in your poses, filters, frames, stickers and logo, and change the limits you want.

3. Set it as Default Profile in Project Settings > Plugins > ta Lensman, or pass it to Enter Photo Mode.

Camera

Setting	Default	Description
Max Distance	1500 cm	How far the camera may move from where the player stood when photo mode opened. 0 = no limit. A Lensman Area can override it.
Collide	On	The camera collides with the level (it always passes through characters).
Collision Channel	Camera	The trace channel for the collision.
Collision Radius	12 cm
Min Move Speed, Max Move Speed	60, 900 cm/s	The range of the Camera speed row.
Fast Multiplier	3	Speed while Faster is held.
Stick Look Speed	110 °/s
Mouse Look Speed	2.5
Invert Look Y	Off
Min Field Of View, Max Field Of View	15°, 110°	The range of the Focal length row (about 137 mm to 12.6 mm).
Max Roll	90°
Allow Orbit	On	Offers the Orbit character camera mode.

Time

Setting	Default	Description
Time Modes	Pause, Freeze, Slow Motion, Live	The modes the player may choose; the first is used when photo mode opens.
Slow Motion Dilation	0.2	How fast time runs in slow motion.
Allow In Multiplayer	On	Off keeps photo mode out of network games.

See Time.

Lens

Setting	Default	Description
Min Aperture, Max Aperture	f/0.7, f/22	The range of the Aperture row.
Sensor Width	36 mm	Used for depth of field and the focal length shown.
Exposure Range	4 EV	The Exposure row goes from −4 to +4 EV.

Filters

Setting	Default	Description
Include Built In Filters	On	Offers the eleven built-in filters.
Filters	Empty	Your own filters, listed after the built-in ones.

The built-in filters:

Filter	Look
Noir	Black and white, strong contrast, vignette and grain.
Sepia	Brown monochrome with a soft fade, vignette and grain.
Vintage	Faded, warm and grainy.
Warm	Warmer white balance (7,800 K).
Cool	Cooler white balance (5,200 K).
Vivid	More saturation and contrast.
Teal & Orange	Teal shadows, orange highlights.
Bleach Bypass	Low saturation, high contrast.
Dream	Soft, bright and glowing.
Night	Dark blue, desaturated, with vignette and grain.
Faded	Lifted blacks, less contrast and saturation.

A filter of your own has a Display Name and any of these:

Field	Range	Description
Saturation, Contrast	0 to 2	1 is neutral.
Gamma	0.2 to 3	1 is neutral.
Tint, Shadows Tint, Highlights Tint	Colour	White is neutral.
Fade	0 to 0.3	Lifts the blacks.
Temperature	1,500 to 15,000 K	6,500 is neutral.
Exposure	−4 to 4 EV
Vignette, Grain	0 to 1
Bloom	0 to 8
Chromatic Aberration	0 to 5
LUT	Texture	A colour lookup table, as a 256 × 16 strip.
Materials	Post process materials	Blended in at the filter’s strength.

The player’s Strength row scales the LUT and the materials. Contrast, Saturation and Temperature rows apply on top of any filter.

Looks

Setting	Default	Description
Include Built In Looks	On	Offers Golden portrait, Noir street, Dreamy pastel, Cinematic 2.39, Retro Polaroid and Rim light drama.
Looks	Empty	Your game’s own looks, listed after the built-in ones. Players can apply them but not change them. Give each a Thumbnail for its tile.
Max Saved Looks	8	0 to 32 slots for the player’s own looks. 0: players can’t save looks.
Allow Share Codes	On	Players can copy a look as a short code and enter codes from others.

See Looks & share codes.

Characters

Setting	Default	Description
Include Player	On	The player’s character can be posed.
Include Nearby Characters	On	Every Character near the player is listed. Off: only actors with a Lensman Subject component.
Subject Search Radius	2500 cm	How far to look for characters.
Max Subjects	8	Including the player; the nearest are listed.
Poses	Empty	Your poses. See Poses.
Include Built In Expressions	On	Offers Smile, Laugh, Surprised, Angry, Sad, Wink, Pout and Eyes closed.
Expressions	Empty	Your own expressions. See Expressions.
Look At Bones	spine_05, neck_01, neck_02, head	The bones that turn toward the camera, each with its share of the turn.
Eye Bones	UE mannequin, MetaHuman-style, Character Creator and VRoid names	The eye bones that aim at the lens.
Look At Max Angle	75°	How far the head may turn away from the body’s direction.
Pose Blend Time	0.3 s

Hiding

Setting	Default	Description
Hide Game UI	On	Hides your HUD and on-screen widgets while photo mode is open.
Always Hide Tag	LensmanHide	Actors with this tag are always hidden in photo mode (markers, debug helpers).
Hide Others Classes	Empty	Extra classes that Hide other characters hides, besides characters.
Refresh Nearby Meshes	On	Keeps skeletal meshes near the camera fully animated and brings them up to date when photo mode opens (followers of modular characters and cloth included), so characters that were off screen don’t show stale poses.
No Refresh Tag	LensmanNoRefresh	Actors with this tag are left alone by the refresh, for meshes your game drives itself.

Abilities

Setting	Default	Description
Add Tags To Ability System	On	While photo mode is open, adds Blocking Tags as loose tags to the ability system components of the player’s pawn and player state, and removes them on exit. Nothing happens when the game doesn’t use the Gameplay Ability System.
Blocking Tags	Lensman.PhotoMode, Gameplay.AbilityInputBlocked	Tags your project doesn’t have are skipped.

See Abilities.

Scene

Setting	Default	Description
Allow Sun Control	On	The Scene tab can turn the sun (a movable directional light) or drive the time-of-day system below.
Time Of Day	Empty	A time-of-day system to drive instead of turning the sun: actor tag, property, update function, range and label.

See Scene.

Lights

Setting	Default	Description
Max Lights	3	0 to 4. 0 hides the Lights tab.
Light Max Intensity	400 cd	Brightness at 100 %.
Lights Cast Shadows	On
Light Presets	Key, Fill, Rim, Top, Under, Color accent	The Type choices. See Lights.

Frame

Setting	Default	Description
Frames	Empty (8 in the default profile)	See Frames.
Aspect Ratios	Screen, 16:9, 2.39:1 Cinema, 3:2, 4:3, 1:1 Square, 4:5 Portrait, 9:16 Story	A ratio of 0 means the whole screen.
Logo	None	Your game’s logo, a texture with transparency.
Logo Size	0.08	Height as a share of the photo’s height.
Logo Anchor	(0.97, 0.95)	Where the logo sits: (0, 0) top left, (1, 1) bottom right.
Logo On By Default	Off

Stickers

Setting	Default	Description
Stickers	Empty (61 in seven packs in the default profile)	Each with a name, texture, default size and pack. See Stickers.
Max Placed Stickers	12

Capture

Setting	Default	Description
Capture Scale	1	1 to 8. Above 1, photos are rendered larger than the screen.
Max Capture Size	8192 px	The longest side of a photo; limits the capture scale.
Format	PNG	PNG or JPEG.
Jpeg Quality	92	10 to 100.
Folder	Saved	Saved, My Games or Custom.
Custom Folder	Empty	An absolute folder, with Folder set to Custom.
File Prefix	Photo	Photos are named Photo_2026-10-14_12-26-35.png.
Thumbnail Size	384 px	Width of the gallery thumbnails.
Shutter Sound	The shipped shutter sound
HDR To SDR Exposure	0 EV	HDR displays: brightens or darkens the SDR photo made from the HDR picture.
Save HDR Original	Off	HDR displays: also saves the linear HDR picture as an EXR (desktop platforms).

See Photos & gallery.

Clips

Setting	Default	Description
Allow Clips	On	Players can record clips (GIF everywhere, MP4 on Windows).
Allow Mp4	On	Offer MP4 where Windows can make it.
Default Clip	GIF, 3 s, 15 fps, 480 px, Orbit	Starting settings for players who never changed them.
Gif Sizes, Mp4 Sizes	320 to 960; 1280, 1920	Long side choices in pixels.
Gif Frame Rates, Mp4 Frame Rates	10, 15, 20, 25; 24, 30, 60
Max Gif Seconds, Max Mp4 Seconds	6, 15
Max Clip Memory MB	256 (96 on mobile)	Memory for a GIF’s frames while it records. Longer clips are shortened.
Gif Dither	Ordered	Ordered, None or Error Diffusion.
Gif Colors	256
Gif Frame Deltas	On	GIF frames store only what changed.
Use Hardware Video Encoder	On	MP4: let Windows use the graphics card’s video encoder when there is one.
Frame By Frame	On	Single-player games record with a fixed time step, so clips stay smooth on any PC.
Clip Prefix	Clip

See Clips.

UI

Setting	Default	Description
Widget Class	Empty	Your Widget Blueprint based on TALensman Widget. Empty = the built-in screen. See Custom UI.
Tabs	Empty	Which tabs to show and in which order, by id: Camera, Looks, Lens, Look (the Filter tab), Character, Lights, Scene, Frame, Stickers, Clip. Empty = every tab that has rows.
Remember Settings	On	Remembers the lens, filter, frame and clip settings between sessions, in a save game slot named TALensman. The player’s looks are kept in the same slot.

Input

Setting	Default	Description
Input Config	Empty	Your copy of DA_Lensman_Input. Empty = the built-in layout. See Input.

Tip

Use several profiles for different parts of the game: a strict one for story levels (no orbit, Pause only, a short distance limit), and a generous one for the open world. Lensman Areas switch between them by location.