Lighting and Unreal Engine can both feel intimidating when you’re starting out. Patch this, address that, modes, universes, DMX channels—it’s a lot. This tutorial series was created to make it simpler, clearer, and way more fun. Sometimes you just need to see it from a different angle for everything to click. Imagine, create… and see if it goes boom.
Posted December 4, 2025 ‐ 1 min read ‐ Categories: GDTF, MVR, Unreal Engine
Caleb Hoernschemeyer showcases adding GDTF-based assets for moving lights into the DMX Plugin of Unreal Engine 5.
Posted May 7, 2025 ‐ Categories: GDTF, Unreal Engine
Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 5.5 featuring major enhancements to Virtual Production, and with GDTF compliance to the DMX Plugin for interfacing with GDTF and MVR enabled control devices and software. Virtual Production tools and many of it's VR support tools are now production ready and are surpassing competitors like Capture and others. See more details after the break.
Posted November 13, 2024 ‐ 2 min read ‐ Categories: GDTF, MVR, Unreal Engine
Chicotron Visuals has shared a pre-visualization of the popular song 'In The Air Tonight', covered by Natalie Taylor. The visualization, created using Unreal Engine, features fixtures primarily based on GDTF imports and is controlled through the gMA2 onPC software. This was done to test and showcase the possibilities of UE, and while there is still a lot to learn and improve, the results look quite impressive.
Posted May 27, 2024 ‐ Categories: GDTF, Unreal Engine
Luca Sorace of Sapienza Università di Roma has published a bachelor degree thesis on the development of a plugin for import and preview of a GDTF based fixtures in the Unreal Engine. Part of the theses is a discussion on implementation of various parts of a typical moving head fixture with calculations and sample code. The repository with the thesis is here and the thesis paper in Italian in pdf is here.
Posted September 25, 2023 ‐ Categories: GDTF, Unreal Engine
If you did not manage to watch live the Vectorworks organized webinar with Patrick Wambold of EPIC Games about using Unreal Engine for live events, you can watch the video recording.
Posted May 10, 2023 ‐ 1 min read ‐ Categories: GDTF, MVR, Unreal Engine, Vectorworks
Webinar with Patrick Wambold, Senior Solution Architect at Epic Games. Wednesday, April 19, 2:00pm ET. Register here.
Posted April 18, 2023 ‐ 1 min read ‐ Categories: GDTF, MVR, Unreal Engine, Vectorworks
Unreal Engine Announces Support of GDTF and MVR
Posted December 10, 2022 ‐ Categories: GDTF, MVR, Unreal Engine