🌀 Ghost Replay System

Bring your world to life with instant replays — whether it’s watching how a player died in a Soulslike bloodstain, or racing against your past self with a ghost car.

Ghost Replay Plugin makes it easy to record and replay any actor’s animation, pose, and visual state — in both singleplayer and multiplayer. No complex setup required.

✨ Key Features

• 🎥 Instant Replay for Any Actor
  • Record and replay actors with Static or Skeletal Meshes
  • Captures full pose (including IK, bone copy, etc.) and component transforms
  • Supports advanced simulation components like Groom Hair and Chaos Cloth
• 🎮 Multiplayer-Ready by Design
  • Built-in support for dedicated and listen servers
  • Smart data chunking system avoids reliable buffer overflow
  • Lightweight replay files via quantization and compression, ideal for online play
• 👥 Record Multiple Actors at Once
  • Grouped or simultaneous multi-actor recording and playback
  • Each actor’s pose, animation, and materials are restored accurately
• 🧱 Drop-In Integration
  • Works seamlessly with existing projects like Lyra, Valley of the Ancient, and more
  • Add bloodstains, replay triggers, and ghost actors with minimal setup
• 🎨 Visual Fidelity
  • Materials are dynamically re-instanced and restored per actor
  • Custom playback options: loop, reverse, play rate, visibility control

🕹 Use Cases

• 🩸 Bloodstain Replays

  Let players touch a bloodstain and witness how another player died — just like Soulslike games.

• 🏁 Ghost Car Challenges

  Replay your best lap and challenge your past self or another player’s ghost in real time.

• 📚 In-World Tutorials or Story Moments

  Embed recorded scenes or actions into the game world as ambient narrative or guidance tools.

🔍 What Sets It Apart

• ✅ Multiplayer-aware from the ground up

  Efficiently synchronizes replay data without flooding the network.

• ✅ Fully modular

  No need to modify your existing animation systems or blueprints — plug and play.

• ✅ Replay accuracy with performance in mind

  Uses FAnimInstanceProxy for threaded animation evaluation and quantized transform storage for minimal bandwidth impact.

• ✅ Visual separation with orchestration

  Server and client replay actors are clearly separated between data orchestrators and visual ghosts — reducing replication and improving clarity.