Tutorials - Avatars

You may want to get the current player's avatar, or someone else's, and display it in your game. This tutorial will walk you through the basics of avatar retrieval and passing it to a sprite so you can use it.

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Request The Avatar

Getting the avatar data is incredibly easy. Just use the following line:

Steam.getPlayerAvatar(Steam.AVATAR_MEDIUM)

You may pass it either Steam.AVATAR_SMALL, Steam.AVATAR_MEDIUM, or Steam.AVATAR_LARGE; their numerical counterparts (1, 2, or 3) will also work. Additionally you can pass along a Steam ID64 to get a specific user or, if no ID is provided, it will get the current user by default.

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Retrieve And Create The Image

To retrieve the avatar data buffer, you'll need to hook the signal for the callback:

Steam.connect("avatar_loaded", self, "loaded_avatar")

This will return the user's Steam ID, the avatar's size, and the data buffer for rendering the image. If you have read the Achievement Icons tutorial, this should all look pretty familiar. Our loaded_avatar function will look something like this:

Godot 2.x, 3.xGodot 4.x

func _loaded_Avatar(id: int, size: int, buffer: PoolByteArray) -> void:
    print("Avatar for user: "+str(id))
    print("Size: "+str(size))
    # Create the image and texture for loading
    AVATAR = Image.new()
    var AVATAR_TEXTURE: ImageTexture = ImageTexture.new()
    AVATAR.create_from_data(size, size, false, Image.FORMAT_RGBA8, buffer)
    # Apply it to the texture
    AVATAR_TEXTURE.create_from_image(AVATAR)
    # Set it
    $Sprite.set_texture(AVATAR_TEXTURE)

func _loaded_Avatar(id: int, size: int, buffer: PoolByteArray) -> void:
    print("Avatar for user: "+str(id))
    print("Size: "+str(size))
    # Create the image and texture for loading
    var AVATAR: Image = Image.create_from_data(size, size, false, Image.FORMAT_RGBA8, buffer)
    # Apply it to the texture
    var AVATAR_TEXTURE: ImageTexture = ImageTexture.create_from_image(AVATAR)
    # Set it
    $Sprite.set_texture(AVATAR_TEXTURE)

Naturally that texture could be applied elsewhere, depending on where you place this function.

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That covers the basics of getting player avatars.

To see this tutorial in action, check out the example branch on the GodotSteam Github repo. There you can get a full view of the code used which can serve as a starting point for you to branch out from.