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Rive’s Unreal runtime allows you to render and control Rive animations natively inside Unreal Engine. It integrates directly with Unreal’s object system and rendering pipeline and is designed for real-time use cases.

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Supported Unreal Versions

  • Unreal Engine 5.7.3 and above

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Supported Platforms

  • Windows
  • macOS
Mobile platform support is planned but not yet available.

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Rendering Backends

Depending on platform and engine configuration, supported backends include:
  • DirectX (Windows)
  • Metal (macOS)
The Unreal runtime uses RHI for rendering backend integration.
Rendering is handled by Rive’s native renderer and coordinated with Unreal’s render thread.

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Feature Support

FeatureSupported
Animation playback✅
State machines✅
ViewModels (data binding)✅
Property observation✅
Text rendering✅
Image assets✅
Multiple Artboards per file✅
Scripting✅
Legacy state machine eventsDeprecated
Legacy direct inputsDeprecated
Legacy state machine events and inputs are deprecated.
New integrations should use ViewModels for both input and output.

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Architecture Overview

The Unreal runtime is built around three core runtime objects:
  • Rive File — Unreal asset containing imported Rive data
  • Artboard — Runtime instance responsible for evaluation and rendering
  • ViewModel — Typed data boundary between Unreal and Rive logic
The typical data flow is: Unreal → ViewModel → State Machine → ViewModel → Unreal State machines consume and modify ViewModel properties. Unreal observes those changes.

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Support & Community

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