#UE5

[@itakithetree]

Fantastic tutorial. This plugin has been right on the verge of being really useful for too long. Tuts like this bring it closer to home.

[@sarkamari]

Great to hear

[@znbern]

Great tut. Loving all the use cases of this plugin popping up.

[@sarkamari]

Thank you Zac

[@ferozhossain3401]

Hello Reza, First of thank you for all those great contents you produce. It really helps take our creativity and workflow the next level. I have a request. In the near future, If you could look into the workflow of animating Maya and having it rendered in Unreal Engine without FBX or alembic workflow, it would really be helpful. I know there's livelink, but I wanna know how to take an entire movie and have it rendered in Unreal. Thanks.

[@sarkamari]

Noted with thanks. :)

[@ahmednasr93]

that was nice I did learn okay an advice from a nuke user here, you can select the points then snap the card to the selection points instead of trying to match by hand it will be faster just click the the button that looks like up+right arrow while you have selected the points then choose position

[@dougmaisner]

super crazy workflow

[@sarkamari]

Yeah, Unreal's workflow can be a bit wild at first, but once you get the hang of it, it starts making more sense. Definitely a learning curve!

[@sebastianestrada4699]

Legend. Thanks so much

[@อีลอนคาร์ก]

Thank you bro

[@sarkamari]

Any time

[@nickd9274]

Amazing tutorial, thank you! Question, I noticed the renders from your 'How To: Use Object ID's in UNREAL Engine' (particularly the PathTracer) were of much higher quality. Better samples, no flickering/compression, etc. Can you elaborate on what settings need to be tweaked to achieve the same result with UnrealReader? Thanks

[@sarkamari]

Use console variables to your advantage It's a great option to override default settings Here are the commands you can use: r.PathTracing.SamplesPerPixel 1024 r.PathTracing.Progressive 0

[@nickd9274]

@@sarkamari Thank you sir! Do you know if there is a way to render out a Pref pass from Unreal?

[@maudchapuis3088]

Great tut ! Any other alternative, Foundry does not support 5.4 version.

[@sarkamari]

True! There is actually an alternative. I'll put together a video first, so stay tuned.

[@tapacg1329]

i think it doesnt work with multiple camera cuts , i mean the world position stuff, because when i hit create camera its just makes a static camera

[@sarkamari]

Yeah, Unreal’s Sequencer can be weird with multiple camera cuts sometimes. When you create a camera, it just gives you a static one by default. You’ll need to manually switch cameras in the timeline or use a camera switch track to get the right movement and world position stuff working. Bit of a pain unfortunately :(

[@hotsauce7124]

Thank you

[@SalarLumia]

thanks for your great explanation! just a question in my mind, what is the main benefit of using these passes instead of tweaking the original scene inside unreal and render it again? (not the color correction part)

[@sarkamari]

The main benefit is the ability to identify and matchmove the camera. Since unreal reader extracts the camera you can reframe your scene after the rendering phase. Also working with render passes is a lot easier when you use reader

It's a very good tutorial! What about using Unreal for an environment and MAYA + Arnold for the hero object? Do you know of a way to have the hero model imported into Unreal but use it just for creating the shadow in it? I know how to use the shadowMatte material inside MAYA, but if I need the Unreal environment, I'd need same material in it. Any ideas for a better workflow?

[@sarkamari]

Sorry Jose. Not sure about the question

@@sarkamari Say you want to put a car in an environment. Creating a natural environment can be pretty time consuming in Maya and Arnold, you can decide to create it in Unreal, which is much easier and you have megascans. But you want to still render the car in Maya and Arnold because of its quality and flexibility. So you want to render the environment but with the actual shadow of the car already in it..., but not the car itself. Kind of like you do with Maya's render layers and turn off primary visibility = you don't see the car but it casts shadows. I hope it's more clear now. And thanks for reading me! 😃

[@tekknohd]

My nuke kept crashing whenever I tried to use unreal reader any advice? I have pretty decent specs too so I dont think it is that.

[@sarkamari]

That sounds super frustrating! It could be an issue with the version of the Unreal Reader or maybe some compatibility problems between Nuke and Unreal. Have you tried updating both, or maybe reinstalling the Unreal Reader plugin? Sometimes clearing the cache or resetting preferences can help too.

[@aman34587]

If we have displaced points in right 3d space why don't we just put the card in right 3d space and just render it out in nuke other points should hide it bihind no need for crypto matting??