E1: nDisplay Config/Switchboard Setup - In-Camera VFX Virtual Production - Vp Toolkit UE 4.27
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- Опубліковано 26 лис 2021
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Vp Toolkit Concept Kit Workflow Series For Unreal Engine 4.27 nDisplay & Switchboard - Фільми й анімація
Thank you sir for making this tutorial series, it has really helped to demystify the setup of the Virtual Production tools in Unreal!
Great video! Note that at 4:42, "show engine content" will need to be ticked as well.
Finnaly a good tutorial about this! Great work!
Thanks! Appreciate it!
thanks for making such a detail video
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very helpfull, thanks mate! 👏
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Hi Ian, thank you very much for making these tutorials. I am facing some problems as I have one machine that will do the whole job. I have primary monitor (GUI) and LED screen. Both connected to same Nvidia card display 1 and display 2. I migh find answer from the comment to my issue already but may I ask you to confirm what is your setup you are using in this tutorial. Is it all-in-one or do you have multiple machines (primary, slave etc.)
Thanks in advance!
Mikko
In 5.1 I get to the point where you add the icvfx camera and the frustum is supposed to appear, but the frustum does not appear, any idea why?
Hi Ian, love your work and thanks for all the help! Quick question, regarding 14:52, if im working on unreal 5.1 and assign the cine camera actor 1 my camera and frustrum disappears, is this normal?
Hey! Appreciate that! In theory it should be pretty much the same in the video. If you have tracking connected you might want to make sure your cine camera actor that is in the level (not the one in ndisplay window) is in the correct place. If your cine camera is somewhere else int he level due to tracking not being calibrated or it just have a transform offset then it won’t show as a preview on the ndisplay projection preview. So basically make sure you’re assigning it to a camera that is in the correct place. Take a look at “camera cameras actor 1’s transform in the details panel and make sure that it is parented to your ndisplay/stage config and then try setting all of the location to 0 to see if it snaps back. Let me know how it goes or if you’ve already figured this out!
Hello, I'm following your tutorial, I don't know a bit about Unreal Engine, when I create my "CinemaCameraActor" I can't attach it to my nDisplayconfig, it tells me that "Actors have to be on the same level" but I don't get it, I guess it's something very simple but I don't know how to do it.
First, thank you for the tutorials. This is been challenging. So many issues. I can get an image on my wall, but it's just a tiny portion of the whole display. using 5.1. That's using one machine.[FIXED] I was remoting into the machine using Parsec, and it was changing the screen resolutions. Went into the studio and it works great! onto the next phase of multiuser and multi maching] I can't get it to communicate with a server. It communicates but returns error code 23 and quits. Switchboard listener and switchboard only run from the exe and not from within unreal. thoughts? Also, any tutorials on setting up all the render servers?
Hey thanks for commenting! Parsec definitely changes the GPU driver settings and I’ve had so many issues with it on set. Now adays mostly using Splashtop business and VNC Ultra when I’m in studio talking to other nodes. 5.1 is a tricky with Multi-user right now! It doesn’t seem to work anymore using one instance of the Project for multiple instances of Unreal. The way around this is to have two copies of the project. We cover how to setup all the Editor Node, Render Node and Files syncing for multiple node for nDisplay clusters in our Operators Training Course. You can check it out at vp-toolkit.com! Also please take a look at (and subscribe if you’d like) to the new VP Toolkit UA-cam channel. Most of the new content and tutorials will be coming out there!
Awesome tutorial Ian. Do you know if there is a way to dynamically assign a scene camera to the "nDisplay ICVFX camera"? I'm not putting the stage actors in a separate level and streaming it like you suggest because sometimes I need to reference actors from the particular scene in blueprints in my stage. That's why I copy the stage´s actors to different levels. The problem is that the nDisplay config has the reference to the camera of only one of the levels, not allowing me to re-use the same nDisplay config for different levels or forcing me to manually change the associated camera in the config everytime I want to change levels.
Yeah needing to re-assign is definitely a drawback to copying your stage into levels, but as you said… the only way to connect it to animated level objects. Could potentially program something like my Frustum widget to set the frustum cine camera using a tag and it’d just automatically assign whatever you have tagged as frustum camera to be your icvfx cine cameras
@@ianfursa9529 Ohh so there is a way to do it. I couldn't find a function to assign that icvfx camera through blueprints. Is it only exposed in C++? It has a weird behaviour too, is the only place in Unreal where I've seen the dropdown of options to asign to a variable, change based on the opened level.
@@benjavides Have you purchased the Vp toolkit plugin? If you’d like to reach out we could potentially build a patch for it that does this for you and potentially add it to future updates of the plugin as a feature.
@@ianfursa9529 Hi Ian, sorry for the delayed response. No we haven't purchased the plugin. Although it looks really cool, I think we're going to make our own, based on the internal tools that we´ve already developed specifically for our workflow. It's important for us to have control over this kinds of tools to be able to add new features as they're required. Would love to have a chat and colaborate though.
@@benjavides Hey Ben! Wanted to mention that the Concept Kit Plugin is designed to be fully customizable via blueprints and or C++ and easily be the base for any internal workflow/feature. You can even add your logo or change coloring to fit your studios branding.
Hi i was using NDisplay for a proyect with multimple displays, everything ok, but then we pass from 5.03 to 5.2.1 and now switchboard dosent show the NDisplay. Basicly it conects, everything minimize, a black windows apears and then gets closed and the NDisplay gets disconected at Switchboard. We tried at new proyects and diferent PCs but there is no way to solve it, i really need help. Someone knows if there is some issues with 5.2.1 Switchboard? Also we tried at 5.03 and it works again, but we need the newer version.
Hi great tutorial thanks. I have an issue, I can see the output but it is like a frozen image of the scene and it doesn't update in real-time if I move things in the editor. What am I missing? Thanks
If you haven’t figured this out yet, please check out my multiuser - ua-cam.com/video/CljfWS0rOqs/v-deo.html
Awesome! Very detailed! Question: When I go to connect my node (which is just one node) I keep getting a socket error, please help!
Not sure if you’ve figured this out but I’ve found switchboard listener can show a socket error and still work but if after awhile ndisplay isnt running then you should make sure you’re using the IP of the machine and not a local IP like 127.0.0.1, let me know if you’re still stuck.
@@ianfursa9529 Yes! Thank you, the switchboard listener actually wasn't on. It's only displaying inside an area the size of my laptop screen on my bigger monitor, even when I change the size in nDisplay it crops it and only shows that portion of it but at least I'm making progress.
hi great video I followed along and got it up with my projector only one problem was getting it to output on projector instead of my pc screen i don't have a second computer to use so the listener is on the same pc
You have to add whats the width of your first screen is in resolution to the node x offset. Go into you ndisplay config, select your node (bottom left of screen) in the details window find where you enter your screen resolution and the X input field there above you will want to put the res width from your first screen (for 4K it would be 3840) You will also want to make sure that in window display settings none of your screens have a scale offset (they should be at 100%) this is less important for the first editing screen. Also make sure your added screen is to the right and align at the top with your primary screen (if you’re following thee instructions) Using a single machine just means you have to use ALT+TAB to switch between the render and the intance of the editor.
@@ianfursa9529 thanks i will try that and let you know how I make out appreciate the response but most of all the video hoping to work with a local studio but I need to figure things out fist planning on getting a decklink duo soon as I can
@@brokecitizen4934 no problem! Let us know if we can help.
works in ue5!
Yes! Pretty much the same workflow!
Amazing tutorial !
i'm trying to launch a nDisplay with two monitors, i configure my vp window the exactly distance from my first monitor from 0 to 1920 and then i get it on my "X" .. but when i launch my switchboard it doesn't go to my second screen !!
Same for me, It just keep launching on my secondary screen, any solution?
@@imaiven the solution i got for that is going at my display configuration and selected which display is my principal .. and then everytime I launch ndisplay goes to my principal monitor
@@hsanch3s did you done that ???
Hi Ian,
Do you know how to change the quality image of my innerfrustum?
it's showing me that it's 1920x1080 but i'd like that to be 4K .. is there a way to do that?
Not sure if you’ve already figured this out but this setting is at the very bottom of the details panel of your “ICVFX Camera Component” within your nDisplay. I think its labeled “Custom Resolution”. Quick access to this via the Vp toolkit widgets will be available very soon!
Is there any way to render out nDisplay content using Unreal configuration in which you can then load the rendered clips onto a media server?
This is an option in UE 5.1 if you haven’t seen that!
Ian Fursa where?! I heard from a friend it was coming out in 5.1 and I never saw where! Can you point me in the right direction? This is huge! Thanks!
Hey Ian, how are you?
here, I facing a problem using nDisplay and switchboard in UE 5.1.
When I launch my nDisplay through switchboard my inner frustum doesn't move and when i see it in my editor it moves.
do you know how to fix it?
What tracking are you using? Are you using two machines or one? Did your setup work in 5.0.3? Did you save your livelink preset and set it to default in project settings?
I did everything like you did but I get a black screen, any ideas?
this happened to me at first as well. I was launching StageLevel in Switchboard but when I switched to LED_Curved Stage I saw what my Camera Actor saw.
hello， ue5 switchboard Can't start, is there any way?
I’d assume you have figured this out but if you haven’t… You should “Verify” the engine in the Epic Launcher and make sure your python is up to date (download the python packages with Visual Studio)
pls I have question . how I can add buleprint with Ndisplay ?
for example : i want to press F to make any action (blueprint) with Ndisplay
Well pressing keys to trigger events with nDisplay becomes a little complex because when you’re running multiple machines then only the one you press the key on will translate over to the nDisplay render. There might be ways around that I haven’t found yet. Basically though you can just add whatever blueprinting you want to the ndisplay config itself (it has a blueprinting section) you can add a blueprint actor to the level and put your logic in there, or you can do your blueprinting within the level blueprint that your ndisplay lives in. From there you just need to reference the ndisplay config from the level as a variable and then do with it what you will. I normally replace using key presses with touchOSC on ipad and using a basic OSC server in unreal to pick up and use the OSC command from the Ipad.
@@ianfursa9529 thank u so much and maybe we can use Web remote control to make action right ?
another quistion pls how I can change Ndisplay from location to photo or video ? for example u can see Macdonalds Ad by virtual production to understand what I mean
Hi, Vive tracker not workig in switchboard please help!
Set the livelink profile in the project settings
@@TudorIrimescu Thank u so much
@@nadeemdeme Glad I could help, smashed my head against the wall with this one myself haha
@@TudorIrimescu 🤣