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Unreal Engine 4 have built-in support for working with MIDI using a built-in plugin. We will discuss how to work with it for receiving MIDI events in your UE project. Note: Sending MIDI messages is declared, but it's unknown how to do it with this plugin, so actually only receiving MIDI events working for now. We will see how to obtain MIDI events from sliders, faders and buttons from MIDI controllers such as Korg Nano Kontrol or Novation Launch Pad or software such as Ableton Live into your UE project. Preliminary note: If you need to pass MIDI events from Ableton Live to UE scene in Windows, you need to create virtual MIDI port using free app loopMIDI . On Mac OS virtual MIDI port can be created inside Ableton Live. Working with MIDI in UE is simple, because it has built-in plugin for this purpose. So, let's start. 1. Activate MIDI plugin Go to UE's menu Edit - Plugins and activate MIDI Device Support plugin, and then restart the UE Edito...

Currently, there are three basic approaches for rendering computer graphics scenes: forward rendering, deferred rendering, raytracing. 1. Forward rendering It's that OpenGL does, you create vertices, then make faces, and rasterize them, all passing via shaders. The rendering process is straightworward and fast, but rendering shadows, making degree-of-field effect and drawing clouds is hard here. Most of openFrameworks examples use forward rendering. 2. Deferred rendering It's the same as forward rendering, but additionally some extra data is rendered for computing shadows. The lighting pass is performed after the scene geometry is drawn. See detailed explanation here: https://learnopengl.com/Advanced-Lighting/Deferred-Shading Shadows, degree-of-field effect and some kind of reflections are possible with deferred rendering. Unreal Engine 4 and Unity currently (2019) are based on deferred rendering. openFrameworks: https://github.com/perevalovds...