Category: Unreal Engine

This post originally appeared on my personal blog, and has been ported over here with a few edits.

This is another article in my developer diary for the Unreal Engine camera system.

The Gameplay Cameras (GPC) plugin currently still has the “experimental” status, but the plan is to upgrade it to “beta” for UE 5.8. This means I have to clean up a few mistakes I made with some of the early designs. The first big mistake was how and where the camera system activates from and runs… let’s dive in!

This post originally appeared on my personal blog, and has been ported over here with a few edits.

Oh hey, look at the time! Another post in my developer diary for the Unreal Engine camera system, and a whole release went by that I haven’t posted anything about. Oh well, let’s see if I can pick the pace back up later. In the meantime, here are some notes and highlights for the Gameplay Cameras (“GPC”) plugin in the Unreal Engine 5.7 release that just went out.

Once again, while the GPC plugin is flagged “experimental” and, therefore, we don’t guarantee any backwards compatibility for it, I made a reasonable effort to keep most things working. Still, there are a couple of breakages we’ll talk about here. Also, if everything goes according to plan, the plugin will graduate to “beta” in 5.8, so fingers crossed!

This post originally appeared on my personal blog, and has been ported over here with a few edits.

This is the eighth post in my developer diary for the Unreal Engine camera system. Since the UE 5.6 release has just gone out, I figured I would write a little bit about what to expect if you’re using the early UE 5.5 Gameplay Cameras experimental plugin.

While the GPC plugin is still flagged “experimental” and, therefore, we don’t guarantee any backwards compatibility for it, I made a reasonable effort to keep most things working. There are however a couple of breaking changes to prevent having to maintain cumbersome code in such an early stage of development. This article is most about that.

This post originally appeared on my personal blog, and has been ported over here with a few edits.

This is the seventh post in my developer diary for the Unreal Engine camera system. Since the last post was a super high level view of what the system is supposed to be, I figured I would just go down one step for this article and share some notes about the general design. This might be particularly useful since the official Unreal Engine documentation doesn’t usually cover “experimental” plugins, and we’re probably one release away from upgrading GPC to “beta”.

This post originally appeared on my personal blog, and has been ported over here with a few edits.

This is the sixth article in my UE Gameplay Cameras developer (GPC) diary. Last week I wrote about one of the first decisions I had to make when I started this work, but I realized I could write about the very first decision I had to make: the decision to start making a camera system in the first place, and in particular making one this way! So, why am I doing this?

This post originally appeared on my personal blog, and has been ported over here with a few edits.

This is the fifth article in my GPC developer diary. Gameplay Cameras (GPC) is a camera system for UE5 that started shipping with the engine as part of version 5.5, but is still in its “experimental” phase. We plan to have it in “beta” with 5.6, and “production ready” with 5.7 or 5.8 depending on how things go.

There was no article last week since it was Family Day here in British Columbia, but this week I’ll go back to one of the very first decisions I had to make, which was the basic design for camera nodes.

This post originally appeared on my personal blog, and has been ported over here with a few edits.

This is the fourth post in my developer diary about the Gameplay Cameras (GPC) plugin for Unreal Engine. I skipped last week because I was too busy! This week let’s pick up on something I alluded to last time, which is “parameter pre-blending”. As always, everything I’m showing here is work-in-progress, scheduled to ship in UE 5.6. You can grab the code from Github and play with it early if you want.

This post originally appeared on my personal blog, and has been ported over here with a few edits.

This is the third article in my developer diary about the Gameplay Cameras (GPC) plugin for Unreal Engine 5. It comes a day late because my workspace is in the middle of a big refactor — nothing compiles and I can’t take screenshots! 😅 In the end, I used some old screenshots and videos I had captured a couple weeks ago… oh well.

One of the big improvements in GPC that you’ll see in UE 5.6 is what I call the “parameterization” of Camera Rigs. This is a fancy made-up term that refers to the various ways you can pass values and data into a running Camera Rig, and somehow use that to affect its behaviour. Let’s look into it!

This post originally appeared on my personal blog, and has been ported over here with a few edits.

In this second developer diary post about Unreal Engine’s Gameplay Cameras plugin, I want to talk about the most visible change you’ll see in 5.6, which is how camera assets are organized.

In UE 5.5, you have the Camera Asset which contains the Camera Director, the Shared Transitions, and a list of Camera Rigs that it can use (see bottom left panel in the screenshot below).