When I discovered Unreal Engine 4 I was blown away by it's realistic real-time rendering engine! I immediately saw that Unreal Engine (UE4) was a game changer and that it had now become possible for a small studio consisting of a few artists to pull off a Hollywood quality feature length animated film!

Click the play button to check out the recorded camera animation through the viewport.I've been making films and doing visual effects on indie films for over 15 years.

Set the viewport to look through the selected camera.

Keep in mind that this step ensure the camera's animation coming from the recorded sequence instead of the camera in iClone.Īlternatively, you can remove the source from the Live Link panel instead of deleting the Subject Name of the camera.

In the Live Link section on the Detail panel, delete the Subject Name.

Hide the original camera and select the camera in the take (marked with a lightning bolt).

Double-click on the take and you can see all the camera's animation clip in the Sequencer panel.

You can open the Takes Browser to find the take.

By default, the recorded file is saved in Content > Cinematics > Takes > (Date) folder.

Click the Stop button in Unreal after the iClone project finishes.

Play back the project in iClone to animate the camera after the countdown ends.

The Take Recorder will start to countdown.

Press the Record button to start recording.Open the Take Recorder panel, click the + Source button to add the camera into the list.In Unreal, select the controlled camera.

Playback to view the camera animation in Unreal authoring mode.

Connect iClone and Unreal with Live Link plug-ins.Animating Transferred Assets from iClone.Prepare a camera in Unreal and iClone with one of.With Unreal v 4.22, the camera's animations are kept by means of the Take Recorder. Furthermore, these animations can be recorded in Unreal for further usage. The camera animations created in iClone can be sent to Unreal to control the camera.

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