Official unreal engine support

Tags: unreal

user-96503b5 2014-09-03 13:34:56 UTC #1

Hi just wondering if there will be official support for unreal engine 4? ive seen a few people here making third party pluggins but wonder if leap is gonna take action a build it officially it seems pointless to use unity since the open acces to source code and price drop of unreal an. im currently most interested in vr and designing experiences with the oculus dk2 which leap seem to be supporting and which im very interested in integrating so im assuming that unreal support would be obvious?

Komposten 2014-09-03 17:05:55 UTC #2

Have you checked this thread out (I guess you have)? https://www.leapmotiontechnology.com/t/unrealengine4-plugin/1108/4
It's not an official plugin, but it's something.

I have neither used Unity nor UE myself, but I'd guess that Unity is easier to make a plugin for and it is more widely used and that that is the reason the LM team have an official Unity plugin. I do, however, think that the LM team should focus on developing their own software (the Leap's firmware, etc.) rather than making plugins for every game engine out there.
Just my 2 cents on this.

matthewtytel 2014-09-04 07:00:19 UTC #3

Hey, I'm the developer that heads the Unity plugin/assets. I've been wanting to make a plugin for unreal but it's been less priority since it didn't seem like there were that many unreal engine developers interested in Leap and I've heard rumors of Oculus' developers being 90% Unity devs (not really sure how true that is so don't quote me).

Looking at recent forum activity makes me think otherwise though, so I'll probably work on an 'official' one in the near future that incorporates all the Unity features and models (there's a few new ones coming too that are really sweet ). I don't want to step on the toes of the unofficial plugin developers so I'll try to coordinate with them as I do so.

user-96503b5 2014-09-04 11:57:20 UTC #4

Hey guys thanks for the responces

Matthewtytel thats great i think as leap plans to enter the virtual reality comunity an unreal pluggin would be ideal. with the oculus dk1 people were offered a 4month trial on unity so alot of develpoment happened on that platform as a result ,but of recent unreal has made thier engine and source code openely accessible and cheap so alot unreal develpoment has statered happening with dk2 and the officail oculus demoe has been couchknights a unreal engine game
As unreal engine 4 and leap now have out of the box support for dk2 a leapmotion pluggin will most likly result in some very visually stunning community demoes:)

LagoLuis 2014-10-24 17:44:36 UTC #5

If you're still wondering about a UE4 plug in check out this one that Getnamo made it works great with blueprints. I'm trying to set up a skeleton to receive the data from the leap. https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?49107-Plugin-Leap-Motion-Event-Driven

malcriado 2015-02-06 15:37:18 UTC #6

Hi Mathew,

with all respect, anyone that would take seriously VR should consider Unreal instead of Unity, just simply because of the level of realism the engine provides compared to Unity, visual richness is one of the pilars to take on consideration for believable immersion, and that is where Unity cant compete.
We are a studio focused mainly in VR and we decided to go the Unreal path beacuse of its visual quality, got to say that missing oficial support for leap motion in Unreal is a pain in the a*s for the ue community, and there are lot of developers that would apreciate that, if you check on unreal forum, you will realize.
Greetings,
F.

AlexColgan 2015-02-24 15:53:57 UTC #7

Hey everyone, there's now an official Unreal Leap Motion plugin! More info here: https://www.leapmotiontechnology.com/t/official-ue4-plugin