Instantly align Unreal Virtual Production sets and real studios using Aruco Markers!

To do a virtual production shoot you need to align your virtual set and real studio so things on both of them will line up properly. Here's a method to instantly do this without a lot of tedious measuring and doing alignment by eye. You just put an aruco tag in your studio, put a matching one in the virtual set, two clicks and everything lines up instantly! A real time saver and it works with any tracking system.

For example this can be used to make your talent appear in any specific spot in the virtual set and adjust other tracked objects and studio lights so they will appear in the right places too. It can even be used to align a greenscreen table top with a table top in a virtual set, so your talent can appear to be leaning or standing on it.

00:00 Intro, demo of instant alignment
01:05 Rehema Sifa's original demo
01:33 Works with any tracking system
01:45 Create an Aruco Tag image to print
03:18 Create an Aruco Tag actor
04:13 Add components to the actor
04:50 Assign materials and static meshes\
05:56 Line up the axis and tag texture
06:30 Name and position calibration points
08:40 Construction script to resize the tag
11:14 Get ready to test!
12:25 Open lens file and align
13:35 Good for virtual sets and augmented reality
14:08 Re use the lens file and aruco in other projects
14:28 Closing, like and subscribe!

Original Aruco demo by Rehema Sifa
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Aruco Tag Creator
https://chev.me/arucogen/

Lens Calibration and Project Setup
   • Virtual Production Project Tutorial f...  
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