Place Actors panel
The "Place Actors" panel gives you quick drag-and-drop access to content in the engine. Broadcast-specific Actors can be found under the "Pixotope" header.
Virtual Camera
A virtual studio camera not tracking an external camera; used for creating virtual studio shots independent of the limitations of the physical space, yet still with the talent composited into the 3D space.
VS Internal Compositing Plane
A surface displaying chroma-keyed input camera feed and compositing it into the 3D space of the virtual studio.
Learn more about Compositing Planes
Garbage Matte Plane
A surface used to block out and output a custom alpha mask for the external compositing mode in Pixotope.
Calibration Cone
A 3D object useful for calibrating the alignment between the virtual and the real point on the surface.
Calibration Cube Hollow
A 3D object useful for calibrating the dimensions between the virtual and the real space.
Tracked Object Actor
An actor that can be set up to follow a remote object tracking source; you can parent other actors to it or inherit it in your own Blueprints.
XR Wall
A representation of the physical display screen to be used as an XR wall or "virtual window".
Learn more about XR Walls
Media Input
Plane with a Media Input Component used for virtual monitors.
Learn more about how to Add a virtual monitor or other video feeds
Pixotope Widget Renderer
Allows rendering of Unreal’s Widget Components onto the video output.
Learn more about Unreal’s Widget Components → https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Basics/Components/Widget/
Pixotope Animated Text Mesh
A dynamically generated 3D text mesh, with a variety of pre-programmed animations.
BPE Compositing Mesh
An actor which mimics the person found in the image using NVIDIA’s Body Pose Estimation.
Learn more about the BPE Compositing Mesh
BPE & Plane
Convenience actor which creates a
BPE Compositing Mesh
VS Internal Compositing Plane as the child of the BPE Compositing Mesh following it in position and scale
Learn more about how to Set up Body Pose Estimation (BPE)