We would not recommend that you upgrade your Pixotope machines in the middle of a production or pre-production phase. This is particularly important as this release upgrades the Unreal Engine version to 4.26.2

When choosing to upgrade, we recommend that you backup your existing Pixotope projects, so that you will be able to go back if you need to.

Migrating projects

General

When opening a project from Unreal or an old Pixotope version:

  1. When prompted in the Editor, click "Update"
    • This will update your .uproject file

  2. Restart the Editor

Unreal projects in Pixotope 1.5

Unreal projects can be used in Pixotope right away and do not need any other migration steps.

Old Pixotope projects in Pixotope 1.5

In case you encounter rendering issues on migrated projects (the compositing pipeline has been upgraded), we recommend the following steps when migrating:

  1. Close Director
  2. Delete the following folders in your Pixotope project:
    • Intermediate
    • Config
    • Saved (optionally)
  3. Open Director again

Plugins

These are the third-party plugins shipped with Pixotope.

Any other third-party plugin which works with UE 4.26.1 should work with Pixotope straight away. However, Pixotope always shows an advisory warning for plugins that weren't compiled for Pixotope. Should you encounter any problems in the plugin operation we recommend recompiling it with our 1.5 | Pixotope SDK.