Virtual Production Project Tutorial from scratch with Unreal Engine and RETracker Bliss!

This tutorial starts from scratch and builds a project that replicates my "Neo's apartment from the Matrix" demo. I'm using Unreal Engine 5 and the new RETracker Bliss as my camera tracker. This setup will work with other camera trackers or no camera tracking at all if you want.

To buy RETracker Bliss visit https://www.retracker.co/

With Unreal Engine 5 the whole process takes about an hour, once you have some experience you can do it even quicker! Use the table of contents below to skip around.

If you have an old graphics card that does not support Lumen and Nanite on UE5, this project will still work, just don't enable them in the project settings.

00:00 Intro, what we will be doing
00:26 RETracker Bliss offer and disclosure
01:21 Getting Started using Film & Video Template
02:10 Add plugins to the project
03:00 Enable important plugins
04:03 Set project settings
05:30 Build a basic scene
08:35 Center Stage, install ARUCO assets, mark center stage
10:57 Hookup your camera
14:17 Setup Composure Composite
15:35 Add a camera
17:00 Finish building composite
21:44 Setup chroma key
22:57 Camera Calibration Introduction
24:23 Setup FIZ blueprint for calibration
28:20 Adding a LiveLink tracker
31:19 Connect LiveLink to our CineCamera Actor
33:00 Print calibration board and Aruco
35:16 Create calibration board actor in Unreal
36:40 Create and setup Lens File
40:45 Setup Lens FIZ curves
42:26 Shoot calibration images
45:00 Checking Calibration Results
47:30 If you need to do calibration again
47:47 Add tracker offset (nodal point)
49:15 Set Worldpose
50:45 Preview the final composite
51:20 Removing the "bulls-eyes" on the screen
51:45 Clean up the chromakey (green screen)
53:24 View the Final Composite
53:40 Set tracking delay
55:28 Timed Data Monitor
56:32 Importing the Neo's apartment set
58:37 Workaround for a bug in Unreal 5.0.3
1:01:10 Setup cg_element to render the set
1:02:05 Set worldpose for this set
1:03:49 Checkout the final result
1:04:15 Tuning the lighting and layout for your studio
1:04:38 RETracker Bliss Discount Offer
1:06:44 Tutorial Summary So Much Faster!
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Unreal Engine https://www.unrealengine.com/

Resources for Unreal, Aruco Tag to print and calibration board to print, get it Aruco.Asset.Pack.zip from https://github.com/MiloMindbender/Liv...

Live Link Plugin for RETracker Bliss (ONLY needed if you have Bliss hardware)
https://github.com/MiloMindbender/Liv...

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