Real-Time Control of Special Effects Hardware Through Unreal Engine
summary
Plugin ships with Unreal Engine 4.25 and exposes DMX Engine, Protocols and Fixtures assets for sending and receiving lighting data; supports Art-Net and sACN with up to 63,999 universes (~32 million channels). Workflow uses a DMX library, GDTF imports for fixture profiles, Blueprint fixture templates and an editor utility that converts MIDI faders to DMX. Demo shows remote control Denver→Amsterdam over VPN with a DMX Plugin in UE 4.25 pipeline and a MIDI-to-DMX editor widget that works live.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:10What is DMX
- 8:47Why Unreal Engine
- 14:46Diagram
- 16:27Setup
- 23:42Setup DMX Fixtures
- 29:38Setup MultiUser Editing
- 34:37Outro
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