A free camera and a real lens are only the start. With Lensman your players pose your characters, make them look into the lens and smile, place their own lights, and finish the picture with frames, stickers and your game's logo. Looks travel as share codes, and short clips come out as GIFs. Press P in game: it works the moment the plugin is enabled.
Interactive demo in the plugin's showcase level. Use the mouse (tabs, rows, ‹ ›, sliders, tiles, drag the stickers, the buttons at the bottom) or the keyboard: Z / C tabs, ↑ ↓ ← → rows, Enter apply, Space photo or clip, G gallery.
Swipe sideways to see the whole screen.
Here, lens effects, filters, looks, share codes, frames, stickers, photos and clips run in your browser on a still of the level; a share code made here works in a game with Lensman. In your game the camera flies through the scene, and depth of field, poses, lights and the sun work in 3D, as in the captures below.
Captures of the photo mode running in the showcase level, with the UE5 mannequins and the game's handwritten logo.
Real photos taken with Lensman in the showcase level. Frames, stickers and the logo are drawn into the image at full resolution, exactly where they were on screen.
Your animations play on the player and nearby characters, even while the game is paused. Heads and eyes follow the lens, and eight expressions work with ARKit, Character Creator or VRoid style morph targets. Poses run on a stand-in copy, so your Animation Blueprints are never touched.
Focal length in millimetres, aperture, and focus that locks on any object and follows it while the camera moves.
Up to four lights aimed at the selected character: key, fill, rim, top, under or a colour accent.
Eight nine-sliced frames, sixty-one stickers in seven packs and your logo, drawn into the photo at full resolution.
Eleven built-in filters plus yours. Six looks, your game's own and eight slots for the player, shared as short codes.
GIFs on every platform and MP4 videos on Windows, with camera motion and ping-pong loops. The gallery plays them.
Turn the sun or drive your time-of-day system, and lock the camera on a tripod while you change the menu.
Everything works with a gamepad, prompts follow the device, and photo mode sits above your CommonUI menus.
Block it in cutscenes, keep the camera in a box with Lensman Areas, hide markers, restore everything on exit.
Restyle the screen, design your own with named widgets, or build a new one: the whole menu is data in Blueprint and C++.
Switching on the fly, with button prompts that show the keys actually mapped. Enhanced Input throughout; the keys are yours to change.
| Keyboard and mouse | Gamepad | |
|---|---|---|
| Move, up and down | W A S D, E, Q | Left stick, triggers |
| Look | Hold the right mouse button | Right stick |
| Zoom | Mouse wheel | Focal length row |
| Lock focus | Click the picture, or F | Right stick (R3) |
| Tabs, rows, values | Z / C, ↑ ↓, ← → | LB / RB, D-pad |
| Take photo, record a clip | Space | Y |
| Hide menu, gallery | H, G | X, View |
| Back, exit | Esc | B |
A profile asset decides what your players get: poses, filters, looks, frames, stickers, logo, clips, limits, capture size. From code, open photo mode from your menu, block it in cutscenes, set any row and react when photos are saved.
Blueprint & C++ docs
UTALensmanSubsystem* Lensman = UTALensmanLibrary::GetLensman(this);
// Keep photo mode out of cutscenes; blocking also closes it.
Lensman->SetPhotoModeBlocked(TEXT("Cutscene"), bInCutscene);
// Open it from your own pause menu, with a portrait look.
if (Lensman->EnterPhotoMode(PortraitProfile))
{
Lensman->SetControlValue(TALensmanIds::FocalLength, 85.f);
Lensman->SetControlValue(TALensmanIds::Aperture, 1.8f);
Lensman->StepControl(TALensmanIds::Filter, +1);
}
Lensman->OnPhotoSaved.AddDynamic(this, &AMyHUD::HandlePhotoSaved);import unreal
# Editable copies of the input actions and mapping context, to change the keys.
unreal.TALensmanInputConfig.create_default_assets("/Game/Input/Lensman")
# A profile with your logo and poses.
profile = unreal.load_asset("/Game/PhotoMode/DA_PhotoMode")
profile.set_editor_property("logo", unreal.load_asset("/Game/UI/T_GameLogo"))
pose = unreal.TALensmanPose()
pose.set_editor_property("display_name", "Victory")
pose.set_editor_property("animation", unreal.load_asset("/Game/Anims/AS_Victory"))
profile.set_editor_property("poses", [pose])
unreal.EditorAssetLibrary.save_loaded_asset(profile)Sold on Fab under the Fab Standard License. Both licenses get the same plugin: every feature and the full C++ source, for Unreal Engine 5.1 – 5.8.
Lensman is available on Fab now.
For individuals and companies with up to $100,000 in gross revenue in the last 12 months.
For companies with more than $100,000 in gross revenue in the last 12 months.
Need several seats or a studio agreement? Contact us.
The Fab Personal license is $19.99: individuals and companies with up to $100,000 in gross revenue in the last 12 months. Above that, the Professional license is $39.99. Both get the same plugin with every feature and the full C++ source.
Yes. Enable the plugin and press P in game. The default profile includes eight frames, sixty-one stickers in seven packs, six looks and a shutter sound. Make your own profile when you want your poses, filters, looks and logo.
No. A pose plays on a stand-in copy of the character’s mesh while the real mesh is hidden. When photo mode closes, the stand-in is removed and the character continues exactly as before.
Any Anim Sequence or Montage that fits the character’s skeleton: single-frame poses or loops. No animations ship with the plugin.
They set morph targets by name, matched loosely, so ARKit, Character Creator and VRoid style blend shapes work with the eight built-in expressions. Faces driven only by curves or Control Rig are not changed.
No. With the Common Game Viewport Client, photo mode becomes the active CommonUI layer above your menus, and closing it returns to the menu it was opened from.
Yes. Photo mode is local to the player who opens it: the world keeps running, and poses, hidden actors and lights are only seen by that player. You can also turn it off for online games.
Yes. Any look can be copied as a short share code (LM1-…) that other players enter to get the same lens, filter, frame and lights. The code box checks the code as it is typed, warns about typos and says when a code comes from another game.
Short clips with the same frame, stickers and logo: GIFs on every platform, MP4 videos on Windows. The camera can move by itself while recording, and the clip can loop forward or ping-pong. Clips have no sound.
Unreal Engine 5.1 to 5.8, in games on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS. It has been tested on Windows. MP4 clips are made on Windows only; clips are GIFs on the other platforms.