Black Eye Cameras 黑眼相机

Features:

• Unreal’s most advanced camera animation system through Black Eye cameras

• Create natural feeling cameras using simple components and rules

• Follow module – your cameras dynamically follow any number of actors in your scene

• Look At module – compose your subjects on screen

• Prebuilt blueprints you can use immediately in your Unreal project

• Full sequencer support

Code Modules:

• Black_Eye (Runtime)

• Black_Eye_Editor (Editor)

Number of Blueprints: 4

Number of C++ Classes: 8 (UCLASS(), runtime classes)

Network Replicated: No* (*we have not yet tested Black Eye through network replication for 1.0.0)

Supported Development Platforms:

• Windows: Yes

• Mac: Yes

• Linux: Yes

Supported Target Build Platforms:

• Windows

• Linux

• MacOS

• Android

Documentation Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12zCytPiQeFwDntnxHXVkwaKkXsRBDa5ps9PH7_Eutck/

Example Project: See Content folder within the plugin for example scene

Important/Additional Notes: For additional support support@blackeyetechnologies.com, or join our discord server https://discord.gg/zu6gJVceRf

Changlog within plugin for version notes

特征:

• 虚幻通过Black Eye相机实现的最先进的相机动画系统

• 使用简单的组件和规则创建自然感觉相机

• 跟踪模块-您的摄像机动态跟踪场景中任意数量的actor

• 查看模块-在屏幕上撰写主题

• 您可以在虚幻项目中立即使用预构建蓝图

• 完整的音序器支持

代码模块:

• 黑眼(运行时)

• Black_Eye_Editor（编辑器）

蓝图数目:4

C++类数:8(UCLASS()，运行时类）

Network Replicated:No*（*我们还没有通过1.0.0的网络复制测试Black Eye）

支持的开发平台:

• Windows：是的

• Mac：是的

• Linux：是的

支持的目标构建平台:

• 窗户

• Linux操作系统

• MacOS的

• 机器人

文档链接: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12zCytPiQeFwDntnxHXVkwaKkXsRBDa5ps9PH7_Eutck/

示例项目：参见 内容 插件内的文件夹，例如场景

重要/附加说明：获取额外支持 support@blackeyetechnologies.com, 或加入我们的不和谐服务器 https://discord.gg/zu6gJVceRf

版本说明插件内的Changlog

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Powerful cinematically aware camera tools for the Unreal Engine

Designed by creators for creators, the Black Eye camera system redefines 3D cinematography in Unreal. This plugin offers lightning-fast previs, intuitive layout tools, and robust gameplay camera controls. Experiment freely, iterate instantly, and bring your ideas to life with unmatched control and efficiency.

Who’s it for?

Gameplay Designers

Quickly craft dynamic cameras with adaptive look-at and follow behaviors, with settings saved directly in play mode. Black Eye’s cameras track and respond to game actions and have components which can elevate genres such as driving, 3rd person AA, first person POV, RTS, sidescroller and more.

Cutscene Artists

Create cinematic sequences with adaptive cameras that adjust to changes in character size, speed, or location. With Black Eye, a single cutscene setup works across variable scenarios, adapting automatically for seamless storytelling. 

Pre-visulization Artists

Create a set of Black Eye shots – wide, close up, drone, cowboy – whatever – and assemble them onto Sequencer.  Try opening with the wide shot then a close up, or maybe the other way around.  Move the characters around. Move some cameras around – it all still works. With Black Eye cameras you don’t need to do the camera animations at the end. Setup the shots and mix up your edit and get closer to your story. 

What you get

The Black Eye camera plugin is compatible with Unreal 5.1-5.5, and all platforms it deploys to.

Follow Component

The Follow component moves the camera. It has multiple controls for damping, small subject motion deadzones, what object to follow including multiple objects and bias weighting between them. There are controls for offset in local or world space and the coordinate space you’d like the camera to work in – world, subject or subject heading.  With these controls you can create everything from a subject locked-on Gopro shot to a camera which lazily follows a flock of objects and anything in between.

LookAt Component

Manages camera rotation with a “through-the-lens” approach, providing extensive controls for screen-space framing. Track entire shapes or specific points on characters, or multiple characters. There’s controls for how heavy the camera follows the subject, dynamic FOV with lens limits and custom zoom damping. Is your subject moving fast and you want to leave some compositional room in front of it? We got you covered with a velocity-based look ahead. 

Each module in the Black Eye plugin represents over 10 years of refinement across multiple game engines and projects.

Demo scene

Examples for many common setups, cameras tacking and following objects in all different configurations so you can see how things are set up.

Pre-configured camera blueprints

Ready-to-use camera rigs, simply assign a subject to follow and/or look at, and you’re off.

Detailed documentation

In-depth guides complete with example GIFs, tips, and clear breakdowns of every feature.

Support on our Discord channel

We’re here for you. Join our Discord community and reach out if you’re stuck, have a question, suggestion, bug or feature request.

Future upgrades

This is just the beginning!  Receive free updates, including exciting new features and continuous improvements. See below for our roadmap

🙋FAQ

What does the Black Eye camera plugin do?

Black Eye is a camera animation system. Instead of traditional keyframing, configure your cameras with specific framing, distance, damping, and composition settings—they’ll automatically track and follow subjects with cinematic precision, no matter the scenario. Of course you can keyframe the cameras if you wish, or keyframe higher level ideas like the composition. Say you want to dynamically track something and have it start on the left of the screen and end on the right, a few keyframs will set the desired subject movement on screen and Black Eye will do the rest. Think of Black Eye as an army of your very own camera operator robots – tell them the shots you want and they’ll follow your direction.

How do I know if I need this?

Are you keyframing cameras which follow and track subjects? Are you working on a game with a dynamic camera that follows something? Are you doing cutscenes for a video game or rapid layout or previs in film? You might find that Black Eye will revolutionize your workflow.

Is this a new type of UE camera?

No, Black Eye is an animation layer that works above standard Unreal or CineCams, integrating seamlessly with postFX and lens settings. It even auto-focuses based on your subjects. Whatever you’ve got going on with your UE camera(s) now won’t change, Black Eye will help you animate it. 

Does Black Eye work in all situations?

For static shots in fixed environments, traditional keyframing might be better. But for any dynamic scenario involving moving subjects, Black Eye is a powerful solution.

Is it Sequencer compatible?

Absolutely— just drag a Black Eye actor onto your Camera Cuts track in Sequencer and jump in.

Will I get support?

Absolutely. Join our Discord server, we’re very active there and will answer questions, help you with ideas and we want your feedback! Bugs, features and all. 

What about future releases?

All buyers receive access to ongoing updates with new features, bug fixes, and improvements.

Roadmap

V1.0

Follow, LookAt, Sequence Clip, Auto Binding

V1.1

Basic collision system, LookAt multi-subject weighting, Camera Sequencer Baking, LookAt ScreenSpace Offsets, camera Control Rig blueprint examples

Future releases

The Ultimate Camera Shake Noise System, Sequencer blending, Shot evaluation/auto editing, Improved Collisions

Meet the creators

Gerald Orban and Adam Myhill have been working on camera stuff pretty much their entire careers. Black Eye is the culmination of their most powerful ideas and refined workflows, honed across years of work on numerous projects and real-time 3D engines.

Gerald Orban

Technical Lead on the original Cinemachine, Gerald brings a wealth of expertise in camera systems and procedural tooling. As a senior developer on Unity’s innovation team, he specializes in natural language interfacing and machine learning for real-time applications, making tools that are powerful yet intuitive.

Adam Myhill

With 20+ years in camera systems across major studios like EA and Blackbird Interactive, Adam has over 40 game credits. He created Cinebot, Cinemachine, Cinecast, and Metacast, and served as Creative Director at Unity for six years. An experienced cinematographer, Adam is also one of Unity’s top patent holders and a Technical Emmy winner.

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适用于虚幻引擎的强大的电影感知相机工具

Black Eye相机系统由创作者为创作者设计，重新定义了虚幻中的3D电影摄影。 这个插件提供了闪电般快速的previs,直观的布局工具,和强大的游戏相机控制. 自由实验，即时迭代，并以无与伦比的控制和效率将您的想法带入生活。

这是给谁的？

游戏设计师

快速制作具有自适应观察和跟踪行为的动态相机，设置直接保存在播放模式。 Black Eye的相机跟踪和响应游戏动作，并具有可以提升驾驶，第三人称AA，第一人称POV，RTS，sidescroller等类型的组件。

过场艺术家

使用自适应相机创建电影序列，以适应角色大小、速度或位置的变化。 使用Black Eye，单个过场动画设置可以在各种不同的场景中工作，自动适应无缝的故事讲述。 

参观前艺术家

创建一组黑眼睛镜头-宽，特写，无人机，牛仔-什么-并将它们组装到Sequencer上。  尝试用宽镜头打开，然后关闭，或者反过来。  移动角色。 移动一些相机周围-这一切仍然有效。 使用黑眼睛相机，您不需要在最后做相机动画。 设置镜头和混合您的编辑和更接近您的故事. 

你能得到什么

Black Eye camera插件与Unreal5.1-5.5及其部署到的所有平台兼容。

跟随组件

跟随组件移动相机。 它有多个控制阻尼，小主题运动死区，什么对象遵循包括多个对象和他们之间的偏差加权。 在本地或世界空间中有偏移的控件，以及您希望相机在世界、主题或主题标题中工作的坐标空间。  通过这些控件，您可以创建从锁定在Gopro镜头上的主题到懒洋洋地跟随一群物体以及介于两者之间的任何东西的相机的所有内容。

外观组件

通过”透镜”方法管理相机旋转，为屏幕空间取景提供广泛的控制。 跟踪字符或多个字符上的整个形状或特定点。 有控制相机的重量跟随主题，动态FOV与镜头限制和自定义变焦阻尼。 你的主题是否快速移动，你想在它前面留下一些作曲室？ 我们让你对未来充满了基于速度的展望。 

Black Eye插件中的每个模块代表了多个游戏引擎和项目超过10年的改进。

演示场景

许多常见设置的示例，相机在所有不同的配置中固定和跟踪对象，以便您可以看到事物是如何设置的。

预配置的相机蓝图

随时可用的相机装备，只需指定一个主题跟随和/或看，你就可以离开了。

详细文件

深入的指南包含示例Gif，提示和每个功能的清晰细分。

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未来升级

这仅仅是个开始！  接收免费更新，包括令人兴奋的新功能和持续改进。 我们的路线图见下文

🙋常见问题

Black Eye camera插件做什么？

Black Eye是一种相机动画系统。 而不是传统的关键帧，配置您的相机特定的框架，距离，阻尼和合成设置—他们将自动跟踪和跟踪主题与电影精度，无论场景。 当然，如果你愿意，你可以关键帧相机，或关键帧更高层次的想法，如构图。 假设您想要动态跟踪某些内容，并将其从屏幕左侧开始并在右侧结束，几个关键帧将在屏幕上设置所需的主体运动，而Black Eye将完成其余工作。 把Black Eye想象成你自己的相机操作员机器人的军队-告诉他们你想要的镜头，他们会跟随你的方向。

我怎么知道我是否需要这个？

你是关键帧相机跟踪和跟踪主题? 你在做一个带有动态摄像机的游戏吗? 你是在为视频游戏或电影中的快速布局或previs做过场动画吗? 您可能会发现Black Eye将彻底改变您的工作流程。

这是一种新型的UE相机吗?

不，Black Eye是一个在标准虚幻或CineCams之上工作的动画层，可与postFX和镜头设置无缝集成。 它甚至根据你的主题自动聚焦。 无论你的UE相机现在发生了什么都不会改变，黑眼睛会帮助你动画它。 

黑眼圈在所有情况下都有效吗？

对于固定环境中的静态镜头，传统的关键帧可能会更好。 但对于任何涉及移动主体的动态场景，Black Eye是一个强大的解决方案。

它兼容Sequencer吗？

绝对—只需将Black Eye actor拖到Sequencer中的Camera Cuts轨道上并跳入即可。

我会得到支持吗？

绝对正确。 加入我们的 不和谐 服务器，我们在那里非常活跃，将回答问题，帮助您的想法，我们希望您的反馈！ 错误，功能和所有。 

未来的版本呢？

所有买家都可以访问包含新功能，错误修复和改进的持续更新。

路线图

V1.0

跟踪，查找，序列剪辑，自动绑定

V1.1

基本碰撞系统、LookAt多主体加权、摄像机测序器烘焙、LookAt屏幕空间偏移、摄像机控制钻机蓝图示例

未来版本

终极相机抖动噪声系统，排序器混合，镜头评估/自动编辑，改进碰撞

与创作者会面

Gerald Orban和Adam Myhill在他们的整个职业生涯中都在研究相机。 Black Eye是他们最强大的创意和精致的工作流程的结晶，经过多年在众多项目和实时3d引擎上的工作磨练。

杰拉尔德*奥尔班

杰拉尔德在原始电影电影的技术领导，带来了丰富的专业知识在相机系统和程序工具。 作为Unity创新团队的高级开发人员，他专注于实时应用程序的自然语言接口和机器学习，制作功能强大但直观的工具。

亚当*迈希尔

亚当在EA和Blackbird Interactive等主要工作室的相机系统工作了20多年，拥有超过40个游戏积分。 他创建了Cinebot，Cinemachine，Cinecast和Metacast，并在Unity担任创意总监六年。 Adam是一位经验丰富的摄影师，也是Unity的顶级专利持有者之一，也是技术艾美奖获得者。