Recording Sessions
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The Matinee animation tool provides the ability to animate the properties of Actors over time, to create either dynamic gameplay or cinematic in-game sequences. The system is based on the use of specialized animation tracks in which you can place keyframes to set the values of certain properties of the Actors in the level. The Matinee Editor is similar to the non-linear editors used for video editing, making it familiar to video professionals.
The Sequence Recorder allows you to capture specified Actors during level editing or gameplay that can be saved as a new Level Sequence, and can be edited inside of Sequencer. This is useful for quickly capturing content for scenes, as you can take a playable character, perform some actions during gameplay while recording with the Sequence Recorder, then take that data into Sequencer, creating a cinematic around it.
In this example, we will use the Sequence Recorder to record our playable character's movement, which we can then edit.
From the Menu Bar under Window, select Sequence Recorder.
The Sequence Recorder window will automatically open. There are some options under Sequence Recording which will determine how (and where) the new Level Sequence asset will be saved. You can choose to record Actors that are spawned (such as particle effects, other characters, etc.), determine the naming convention and save location, and change other settings like the duration to record or delay before starting to record.
From the Main Editor Toolbar, click the Play button to start a Play in Editor (PIE) session.
Press Shift+F1 to gain mouse control once inside the game.
On the Sequence Recorder window, click the Add button.
From the available, dashboard under /Cinematics the folder you can control various parameters
like:
Car lights, Headlights
Environmental Factors
Fog
Sky-light flux
Sun position
Landscape visibility
object visibility
Sequence Recorder can track any object for tracking and can manage tracking of assets centrally.
