Streaming to Unreal
iPi Mocap Studio is capable of realtime streaming of character's pose over network. This can be used to preview captured motion in an actual game scene inside the Unreal editor or Unity editor.
Usage in Mocap Studio
To start streaming, go to the Export tab and press Start Streaming button. While streaming is active any changes to a pose of the actor in Mocap Studio (playback, tracking, manual edit etc.) are sent to the local network. If there is a target character applied for an actor then the program streams poses of that target character otherwise it streams poses of the actor model. To stop streaming press Stop Streaming button on the Export tab. Streaming also stops automatically when a project is closed.
Streaming protocol broadcasts UDP packets to a certain port on the local network. By default, the port used is 31455. You can change this value in Streaming Settings dialog which opens when you press a "gear" icon on Start Streaming button.
Usage in Unreal
To get data streamed by iPi Mocap Studio into Unreal Engine please follow instructions below.
1. Install iPiMocapLiveLink plugin.
1.1. Download iPiMocapLiveLink plugin via links below.
Download: UE 4.25 - iPiMocap-Unreal-4-25.zip; UE 4.24 - iPiMocap-Unreal-4-24.zip
1.2. Unpack downloaded archieve into Engine\Plugins folder of you Unreal Engine installation. The folder iPiSoft will be created with subfolder iPiMocapLiveLink that will contain the plugin binaries and source code.
2. You will then have to activate installed plugin in your project.
2.1. (Re)start the Unreal Editor.
2.2. Open Plugins window via Edit > Plugins menu. Select Animation category.
2.3. Enable iPiMocapLiveLink and LiveLink plugins.
2.4. Restart the editor by pressing Restart Now button.
