Why Use Version Control in Virtual Production?
As an artist, producer, or filmmaker, you know time is money when it comes to making a film. Your team shouldn’t be spending time searching for files or re-creating lost assets. With version control, you can get your time back. Access all your assets in one place, easily collaborate with vendors, and make changes from anywhere.
Perforce Helix Core is the industry standard version control system for use with real-time game engines. It's a cloud-ready, lightning-fast way to manage all your files across vendors, studios, and teams.
Perforce version control integrates into your existing virtual production pipeline. With no limit on file size, teams can securely share large 3D assets across collaborators — both internal and external. Organize your assets, your teams, and your production with Helix Core.
Make the Most of Pre-Production Time & Resources
Save Time and Money On-Set
Collaborate Better with Post-Production Vendors
Make the Most of Pre-Production Time & Resources
Virtual Art Departments (VADs) using Helix Core with a game engine can iterate more, faster. Helix Core keeps track of all versions of your assets, so you know what the latest version is, who worked on it, and where it can be found.
Helix DAM — digital asset management built on Helix Core — helps creative teams find, track, and review art assets. And the Helix Core Plugin for Graphical Tools (P4GT) plus our robust APIs allow VADs to work within the environment they know and love – from Maya to Adobe Photoshop.
Save Time and Money On-Set
Every second matters on set. Digital environments often need to be adjusted when shooting on an LED wall.With Helix Core, your remote team can have a new version uploaded in no time at all. It's like having all your artists on location.
With the ability to see a full history of asset versions, your team can instantly see what was changed, when, and by who. Helix Core takes the guesswork out of creating.
Collaborate Better with Post-Production Vendors
Keep budgets low in post-production by giving your VFX teams a detailed history of what was used and when. Your external vendors can have as much, or as little, access to assets as needed.
Helix Core’s federated architecture means your team can work efficiently when remote. And with the Enhanced Studio Pack, you can deploy Perforce version control to the cloud, making it even easier to share across collaborators.
Game Engines, Helix Core, and Virtual Productions
Game engines allow teams to render in real-time. With an engine like Unreal or Unity, your team can build 3D environments, make changes instantly, and save assets for use in later productions.
Teams using virtual production software like game engines need a single source of truth for binary files, audio files, video files, code, and more. That’s where Helix Core version control comes in.
Unreal Engine & Helix Core for Virtual Production
Epic’s open, advanced real-time 3D creation platform — Unreal Engine — is revolutionizing the virtual production workflows of some of the most cutting-edge studios. Learn how Helix Core works with Unreal Engine.
Unity & Helix Core for Virtual Production
Unity is one of the world’s leading real-time 3D development platforms. It lets studios virtually produce films, tv shows, advertisements, and more. Plus, it’s easy to get started. Learn how Helix Core works with Unity.
“Helix Core has dramatically improved our pipeline and efficiency in working on Unreal projects. It has changed the game for us completely.”
“For a small studio that has multiple projects at various stages of production happening simultaneously in Unreal Engine, Perforce is a huge weight off my shoulders.”
"Helix Core has been great for us in terms of when projects reach those pinnacle bottlenecks when everyone is piling on to try to figure out a last-minute ask.”
