# Unreal Engine 5.8+ Movie Renderer for Eve Online Cinematics **URL:** \ **Category:** My EVE\ **Created:** [February 25, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unreal-engine-5-8-movie-renderer-for-eve-online-cinematics/507334 "2026-02-25T19:03:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AlleyKat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/alleykat/32/515335_2.png) [@AlleyKat](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/AlleyKat)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unreal-engine-5-8-movie-renderer-for-eve-online-cinematics/507334/1 "2026-02-25T19:03:35Z")
Hi…it’s been a looooong time. This is really to the devs, as all of my old contacts have now left the firm. As the title says I have been working on an EVE Online Cinematic tool, working inside the Unreal Engine 5.7+ and the new substrate system. If you could take a look at this file and check my math, I’d appreciate it - but I went _big_. If you download & 100% the image, it should scale on a UHD4K monitor, but it’s a snapshot of the html working space I use in the pipeline for hex codes etc. and cheat-sheet. Much love, AK ![FresnelMini by AlleyKatPr0](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/7/c/4/7c4b5df82dad0f9d8764cd0d0f226d712a643fdf.jpeg) PS, gimme a call sometime, maybe we can discuss renewing that NDA… @ISD_Drew > **Summary** > > This text will be hidden ---
**Author:** ![DeMichael\_Crimson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/demichael_crimson/32/514115_2.png) [@DeMichael\_Crimson](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/DeMichael_Crimson)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 1:18pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unreal-engine-5-8-movie-renderer-for-eve-online-cinematics/507334/2 "2026-03-02T13:18:03Z")
Might be better if posted in the sub-forum [Third Party Developers - EVE Online Forums](https://forums.eveonline.com/c/technology-research/third-party-developers/76) Also will get more notice if you tagged a Dev or someone like @ISD_Drew to hopefully pass your message along to them… Other than that, may you have good luck and much success with it… ---
**Author:** ![AlleyKat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/alleykat/32/515335_2.png) [@AlleyKat](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/AlleyKat)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unreal-engine-5-8-movie-renderer-for-eve-online-cinematics/507334/3 "2026-03-02T15:07:58Z")
Possibly… I think this is right on the money for unreal engine 5.7+ and, hope to have something to show soon, other than a glorified HLSL map ---
**Author:** ![AlleyKat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/alleykat/32/515335_2.png) [@AlleyKat](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/AlleyKat)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unreal-engine-5-8-movie-renderer-for-eve-online-cinematics/507334/4 "2026-04-07T19:56:13Z")
![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/2/3/8/2387f6d7e54d62b7ae6ab71311556496ee9bcfc9.jpeg) @ISD_Drew two things…firstly, why is there a godamn Tardis in this eve folder? and secondly, why did you not name the root bone animation bone correctly? PHONEBOOTH not ‘PHOEBOOTH’ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anna\_Dyneaux](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/anna_dyneaux/32/510758_2.png) [@Anna\_Dyneaux](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Anna_Dyneaux)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 8:48pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unreal-engine-5-8-movie-renderer-for-eve-online-cinematics/507334/5 "2026-04-07T20:48:12Z")
> **[CCP Games partners with BBC Studios for EVE Online x Doctor Who Crossover Event](https://www.ccpgames.com/news/2022/ccp-games-partners-with-bbc-studios-for-eve-online-x-doctor-who-crossover)** > > CCP Games partners with BBC Studios for EVE Online x Doctor Who Crossover Event ---
**Author:** ![AlleyKat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/alleykat/32/515335_2.png) [@AlleyKat](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/AlleyKat)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 9:40pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unreal-engine-5-8-movie-renderer-for-eve-online-cinematics/507334/6 "2026-04-07T21:40:34Z")
Oh…. Thanks for the heads up. I was going through my code and found that and thought there was some kind of Easter Egg…like the monolith. So, about that spelling mistake… ---
**Author:** ![DeMichael\_Crimson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/demichael_crimson/32/514115_2.png) [@DeMichael\_Crimson](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/DeMichael_Crimson)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 10:32pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unreal-engine-5-8-movie-renderer-for-eve-online-cinematics/507334/7 "2026-04-07T22:32:00Z")
> [@AlleyKat](#): > > So, about that spelling mistake… I’d like to think it’s intended to bypass any legality issues… More likely it’s just a typo… Maybe it’s Ebonics… ---
**Author:** ![AlleyKat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/alleykat/32/515335_2.png) [@AlleyKat](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/AlleyKat)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2026, 9:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unreal-engine-5-8-movie-renderer-for-eve-online-cinematics/507334/8 "2026-05-07T21:52:02Z")
![6](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/2/1/5/215a176b4c2e67fd732819f162f4ae9ee004310b.jpeg) Working the lens flares, and felt it made more sense to programmatically design them, rather than copy/duplicate the existing flares that CCP use. So…for the interior spaces there are obvious choices for tone and racial color and if you can identify the racial lens flares above for the 6 racial types, then I am on the right track. The optical flare pass I’m gonna render after opaque/translucent scene lighting is available, but before tonemapping. `Scene geometry / lighting` `Translucency / emissives` `HDR SceneColor exists` ` ` → `Optical Flares pass` ` ` → `Bloom` `Exposure / tonemap` `Color grading` `Output / MRQ / EXR` Just to be clear, this is not a material surface pass. It’s not a Niagara sprite-only overlay. It’s not after tonemap, as a ‘flat’ screen-space graphic and it most defintely is not UE’s default lens flare pass. Using Python, I am able to generate my own ‘controlled flare mask atlas’, giving the engine hard core discs, soft discs, aperture polygons, ring halos, broken halos, anamorphic streaks, cross/star streaks, machine slits [Horizon Zero Dawn in nature], spectral ghost discs, grime masks, micro-scratch masks, faction-specific breakup masks. These are then consumed as [planned] optical flares. As none of this needs to be realtime due to cinematics, I’m having a lot of fun challenging myself with this to push Unreal Engine more. /soon ---
**Author:** ![AlleyKat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/alleykat/32/515335_2.png) [@AlleyKat](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/AlleyKat)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 6:28pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unreal-engine-5-8-movie-renderer-for-eve-online-cinematics/507334/9 "2026-05-22T18:28:21Z")
![RAD2UE](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/c/3/5/c3590a861870dc35fd536d458187fe7cc2ff5092.gif) I apologise for the poor quality of the gif, but let me explain what it shows for those who do not realise the significance. I shows Unreal Engine 5.7 live importing a Megathron .gr2 mesh directly into the engine, including the animation hardpoints for turrets. It works on any .gr2 mesh, but is configured for EVE Online [currently], so this means basically ‘any’ game ever that has ever used .gr2 as a compression, such as; **Star Wars: The Old Republic** , **PlanetSide** , **PlanetSide: Core Combat** , **MechAssault** , **MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf** , **Halo: Reach** , **Halo 4** and of course **Destiny** , are now only a simple click away. All I need is the granny.dll and the .gr2 model, and the circle is complete. _Fear me._ ---
**Author:** ![AlleyKat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/alleykat/32/515335_2.png) [@AlleyKat](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/AlleyKat)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unreal-engine-5-8-movie-renderer-for-eve-online-cinematics/507334/10 "2026-08-20T16:30:04Z")
Been working on the ACES HighCg for the solar systems and found a resonable pre-render, pre-post processing look for the solar systems and cross referenced the whole data base for solar systems and scripted backslash commands to teleport me about. Loads pretty quickly and have even begun setting up the world/solar system/level composition as it’s easy to do in UE5 and saw no reason to exclude it. ![Leremblompes](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/e/c/5/ec523595cda204d76d44f9d51230eab8bd4b6e55.jpeg) ![Jita](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/5/d/6/5d60b52741e50388229808db3d2255f05ac949de.jpeg) I forgot how pretty Polaris is…I may have to spend more time there, one day. Again. ![Polaris](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/d/6/c/d6c9961bd9b62ab671e4237109617a6142733984.jpeg) If you do not have an HDR monitor, these images may seem washed out and as they are pre-rendered, will not look like that in finality and of course are completely inefficient. Stations are coming along nicely and am working on the animations for characters, poses mainly, but yah - having fun; yet have spent too much time on my BMX this summer…but winter is coming. AK ---
**Author:** ![AlleyKat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/alleykat/32/515335_2.png) [@AlleyKat](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/AlleyKat)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2026, 9:12am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unreal-engine-5-8-movie-renderer-for-eve-online-cinematics/507334/11 "2026-10-19T09:12:59Z")
Animations are hard…I half expected more to share two weeks back, but hit a snag. soon ™ ---
**Author:** ![Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uriel_the_flame/32/490165_2.png) [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uriel_the_Flame)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2026, 9:14am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unreal-engine-5-8-movie-renderer-for-eve-online-cinematics/507334/12 "2026-10-19T09:14:28Z")
> [@AlleyKat](#): > > soon ™ The FCCCP way. 🤔 🤭 :psyccp: 😏 ---
**Author:** ![Meridan\_Night](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/meridan_night/32/488304_2.png) [@Meridan\_Night](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Meridan_Night)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2026, 8:40pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unreal-engine-5-8-movie-renderer-for-eve-online-cinematics/507334/13 "2026-10-19T20:40:00Z")
> [@AlleyKat](#): > > if you can identify the racial lens flares above for the 6 racial types, then I am on the right track. I can identify 5 along with Triglavian. I don’t know what the 6th is supposed to be. SoE? Nice flares, though, mostly. The 6th one I can’t identify (bottom row middle) looks poorer compared to other ones. ---
**Author:** ![AlleyKat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/alleykat/32/515335_2.png) [@AlleyKat](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/AlleyKat)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 4:34pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unreal-engine-5-8-movie-renderer-for-eve-online-cinematics/507334/14 "2026-10-20T16:34:35Z")
damn…thought I had got that, back to the drawing board. It should look like this, from left to right - Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, Minmatar, Jovian and then Trig/upwell. @ISD_Drew In `gallente.black`, the `booster` object contains a field named `warpHalpColor`, which I suspect is a spelling error for `warpHaloColor`. That was on the latest dataset from the installed files for the game client. If the renderer expects `warpHaloColor`, it may ignore this setting and render the Gallente warp effect with the wrong color, or fall back to its default RGBA `[0.0118, 0.0235, 0.0392, 0]` I suspect the latter, but I’m sure the internal tools would confirm it one way or t’other. In addition to this, `gallente.black` has `noiseAmplitureStart` and `noiseAmplitureEnd` on its booster shape objects. They look like misspellings of `noiseAmplitudeStart` and `noiseAmplitudeEnd`. But I might be wrong… ---
**Author:** ![Meridan\_Night](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/meridan_night/32/488304_2.png) [@Meridan\_Night](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Meridan_Night)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unreal-engine-5-8-movie-renderer-for-eve-online-cinematics/507334/15 "2026-10-20T19:19:29Z")
> [@AlleyKat](#): > > from left to right - Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, Minmatar, Jovian and then Trig/upwell. Yup, all except Jovian I got. I like them, just the Jovian looks a bit underwhelming compared to the rest. Still a nice job. ---
**Author:** ![AlleyKat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/alleykat/32/515335_2.png) [@AlleyKat](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/AlleyKat)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 9:59pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unreal-engine-5-8-movie-renderer-for-eve-online-cinematics/507334/16 "2026-10-22T21:59:59Z")
![eve-mega-halation-8k-2026-10-22T21-20-49-828Z](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/9/9/a/99a1073397ac0dab85ffeda8a345ed72b849ff12.jpeg) Testing the color space and 32 AA samples @ 8K ![eve-mega-halation-8k-2026-10-22T21-24-42-588Z](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/7/3/2/7324f3b9f102048f57bdbf4110706cb899219839.jpeg) ![eve-mega-halation-2026-10-22T18-43-30-322Z](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/8/7/c/87c5b1bfcbc98615864c8cebe60b700974ef1012.jpeg) Always had ❤ for the Thorax. ![eve-mega-halation-2026-10-22T18-46-26-270Z](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/3/3/0/3303478cc1689b22ca9bbeab180691e62a3b52c1.jpeg) Up close on the Carrier, nice reflections ![eve-mega-halation-2026-10-22T18-51-23-590Z](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/5/c/5/5c5684ac5da587672829cfa54762bf56b7246ad3.jpeg) Upwell models have so many render layers, but the decals are crisp Not happy with many aspects of these renders - yet they have been a 8k proving ground for the basic eve environments outside…but inside is where my love truly lays her head… ![amarr-interior-wall-2k](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/4/0/9/4097fae05ea35cd35f2faadaecbbae36accf8b17.jpeg) Building lots of staging areas for testing graphics and tonemapping, but am working on the animations, still…