🕹️ RetroRender — PS1 / N64 / PS2 / CRT Rendering for Unreal Engine

RetroRender turns your modern Unreal scenes into authentic retro-console renders — low-poly geometry, pixelated

point-sampled textures, reduced colors, ordered dithering, vertex wobble and CRT scanlines — from a single editor

panel, with no C++ required.

Drop the plugin in your project, open the RetroRender panel, and drive the whole style from one place. Bake your

meshes low-poly, retro-fy your textures in batch, drop PP_Retro on a Post Process Volume, pick a preset, and your

scene instantly reads as PS1, N64, PS2 or CRT.

Faking the retro look by hand means decimating every mesh in an external tool, tweaking texture settings one by one,

and rebuilding a post-process stack from scratch. RetroRender does all three — geometry, textures and the on-screen

look — as one coherent, non-destructive pipeline.

📚 Documentation ― 💬Discord

🎨 THE LOOK

• Full-screen PP_Retro post-process: pixelation → color reduction → ordered dithering → CRT scanlines

• Master materials (Opaque & Masked) with affine UVs, color reduction and PS1 vertex-snap wobble

• Everything driven by one Material Parameter Collection — change the whole style in one click

• Procedural dithering (no texture asset to ship) and screen-space vertex snap

🧊 DECIMATE BAKER

• Bake low-poly copies of your meshes for the chunky PS1/N64 silhouette — offline, zero runtime cost

• Reduce by percent of triangles or to a target triangle count

• Batch the whole Content Browser selection at once

• Landscape → mesh baking (the conversion competitors leave you to do by hand)

• Replace In Level — swap every placed instance to the baked mesh automatically

• Original materials and textures reused verbatim — nothing duplicated on the texture side

🖼️ TEXTURE RETRO UTILITY

• Batch point sampling (crisp pixels), no mips (sharp at distance) and resolution clamp (low-res)

• Fully non-destructive — never touches pixels, only sampling settings

• One-click Revert restores every original from an automatic backup

🎛️ PRESETS & PANEL

• Four ready presets: PS1 · N64 · PS2 · CRT

• One dockable panel (Tools → RetroRender) with Bake / Textures / Look tabs

• Create your own RetroLookPreset data assets and apply them in one click

🧩 SCRIPTABLE

• Full Blueprint / Python API (URetroRenderLibrary) — bake, retro-fy textures and apply presets from your own editor

scripts and utility widgets

• Multi-select batch operations on meshes, landscapes and textures

🔧 BUILT FOR SHIPPING

• Bakes are offline and deterministic — no runtime hitches, no custom scene proxies, every platform

• No runtime C++ module — the look is pure materials, portable across engine versions

• Nanite automatically disabled on baked meshes for the classic rasterized look

⚠️ Important Notes

- The Decimate Baker uses Unreal's mesh-reduction backend — the QuadricMeshReduction plugin (bundled with the engine,

enabled by default).

- The look is a post-process: add PP_Retro to a Post Process Volume to see it. Applying a preset only changes

parameters.

- Material-side affine UVs are an approximation (Unreal exposes no per-pixel noperspective); the authentic PS1 texture

"swim" comes naturally from the low-poly meshes the baker produces.

- Baked meshes are new StaticMesh assets saved to your project; the source meshes are never modified.

🛠️ Supported Engine Versions

Unreal Engine 5.2 – 5.8

Blueprint-only projects fully supported — no C++ required (prebuilt binary included)

🛠 Support

All support is provided after product ownership verification.