Ask Unreal Anything: Rendering | June 15, 2022 at 1PM EDT

Hello,

Q: Is there any way to activate/switch from Lit to Path Tracing in Runtime (and vice versa). Same as we can display Wireframe (F1) Unlit (F2) and so on, or with any console command?

If not, would this feature have any chance to be added to the UE5 editor at some point? I would love to see this happening.

Example: We can launch Movie Render Queue in runtime and render, Lit mode or Path Tracing, but we can not previsualize Path Tracing result in Runtime as we can with Lit mode (F3 Key)

We can press F8 during runtime (Editor Mode?) and there, change the view mode to Path Tracing, then press Pause and Path Tracing will start “refining”, but most of the BP functionality, current camera position, etc… is gone while in “F8 Mode”, so does not seem as a workaround.

*Would be great to have a proper Runtime Render Tutorial at some point, explaining how to set up most of the render settings with blueprints or python (or both) diving into the possibilities we have to set it up using Movie Render Queue.

Thank you!