360-Degree Panoramic Video

Use Level Sequence and Movie Render Queue to render a LiSplat scene to a 360-degree panoramic image sequence.

Enable Render Plugins

Open Edit → Plugins and search for Movie. Enable Movie Render Queue and Movie Render Queue Additional Render Passes, then restart when prompted.

Figure: Enable the plugins for panoramic rendering

Create a Level Sequence

1. Right-click an empty area in the Content Browser and select Cinematics → Level Sequence.
2. Drag the new sequence into the scene. Right-click it in the Outliner and choose to edit it in Sequencer.

Figure: Create a Level Sequence

Set the Camera and Duration

1. Click Create Camera in Sequencer to create a Cine Camera Actor in the sequence.
2. Adjust its position and direction. For a moving camera, add Transform keyframes and check each part of the path.
3. Set playback range, frame rate and end frame; for example, use 150 frames and adjust for the intended duration.

For more customization, see the Unreal Engine tutorial: Create Camera Animation.

Figure: Create a camera and set the sequence range

Configure Panoramic Rendering

1. Click Movie Render to open Movie Render Queue.
2. Click Unsaved Config in the Settings column.
3. Add Panoramic Rendering and disable the ordinary Deferred Rendering pass to avoid also outputting a regular view.
4. In the panoramic settings, enable Allocate History Per Pane. Set output resolution, format and directory.
5. Click Accept to return to the queue.

An equirectangular panorama normally uses a 2:1 aspect ratio. High resolution and per-pane history require more VRAM, so start by rendering a few frames.

Figure: Open Movie Render Queue

Figure: Panoramic rendering settings

Render and Inspect

Click Render Local. Open the output directory and check frame continuity, panorama seams and brightness stability.

Figure: Exported panoramic image sequence

Figure: 360-degree panoramic result