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Remote image board

Show an image from a URL that one player enters and everybody sees.

A poster board where any player can paste an image link and the picture appears for everyone in the instance.

[ URL Input Field ] ─▶ [ Synchronized URL ] ─▶ [ Synchronized Texture2D Loader ] ─▶ [ Local Texture2D ] ─▶ [ Raw Image ]
       player types        shared by all          runs on every client                 per client           on the canvas

Only the URL travels over the network; every client downloads the image itself.

Steps

  1. Add a Synchronized URL (Runtime/Prefabs/Synchronized Values) to your Global Settings group and give it a unique name such as Poster URL. Optionally set a Default Value - e.g. your world’s logo - so the board isn’t empty.
  2. Add a Local Texture2D named Poster Image to Local Settings/Derived - its state is computed by the loader.
  3. Add the Synchronized Values/Converters/Image Loader prefab and reference both values. The prefab already uses the package’s loading and error placeholder textures.
  4. On your canvas add Local Values/UI/Raw Image and reference the Local Texture2D.
  5. Add Synchronized Values/UI/URL Input Field and reference the Synchronized URL.

Players can now paste a link into the input field; the image appears on everybody’s board.

Polish

  • Clear button: a UI button calling SendCustomEvent("_Clear") on the synchronized URL resets the board to the loader’s Default Texture.
  • Curated images: replace the free input with a few URL Presets - one button per image.
  • Show the link: add a URL label under the picture.

VRChat only loads images from trusted hosts unless a player enabled Allow Untrusted URLs, and limits how often images can be downloaded. Set an Access Denied Error Texture on the loader that tells players what went wrong. See VRChat’s image loading documentation.