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Plan V Tools - Virtual Production

Painting Practice - Code Plugins - Sep 16, 2020

A set of virtual production tools designed to be used both in editor or in a packaged scene.

  • Supported Platforms
  • Supported Engine Versions
    4.25 - 4.27
  • Download Type
    Engine Plugin
    This product contains a code plugin, complete with pre-built binaries and all its source code that integrates with Unreal Engine, which can be installed to an engine version of your choice then enabled on a per-project basis.

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IMPORTANT: Please note that there are some existing known issues, check the support thread for more info.


EASILY SHARE YOUR 3D ENVIRONMENTS

Plan V Tools comes with a controllable camera system that will easily turn any level into a navigable 3D environment that can be packaged and shared across team members, production staff or clients. Package scenes are VR compatible.


IMPROVED WORKFLOW

Plan V Tools comes packed with tools that will simplify certain tasks within the editor such as creating storyboards, previewing VFX layers, measuring sets and props, taking screenshots and multi-pass renders, Object ID and adjustable depth pass are all one click away.


VIRTUAL CAMERA TRACKING

Easily set up a VR Headset, VR controller or IOS device as a camera tracker to record shots to level sequences. Android devices can also be used via “Virtual Plugin” by "ByOwlsStudio".

Technical Details

EDITOR TOOLS - VIRTUAL PRODUCTION

  • Storyboard: An interface to quickly create storyboards that can be converted to level sequences.
  • Screenshot tool: One interface to take screenshot, or export multi-pass renders
  • Layers: A way to easily highlight what is part of the set, studio, visual effects and the characters.
  • Virtual Camera: Camera tracking and shot recording with Epic’s Take Recorder plugin.
  • Techvis tool: Quickly measure up sets & props and render them with our Techvis shader.
  • Panorama Tool (Experimental): Quickly snap 360° renders up to 16k (15360x7680). 


PACKAGED TOOLS - VIRTUAL RECCE, PREVIS & CONCEPT

  • Controllable camera: Adjust focal length, focus distance and filmback settings.
  • VR Exploration: Navigate your environments using a VR headset.
  • Storyboard: Create storyboards that can then be exported or converted to sequences.
  • Screenshot: Take screenshot and multi-pass renders (Lit/Unlit/Normal/Object ID/Depth).
  • Sequence Player: Playback any character or camera animations with the included timeline.
  • Layers: Preview the different layers setup in editor.
  • Variants: Quickly toggle different level layouts (see UE's Variant Manager)


Code Modules:

  •  PlanV_Tools (Runtime)
  •  PlanV_Tools_Editor (Editor)


Number of Blueprints: 39

Number of C++ Classes: 14

Supported Platform: Windows