UE Gameplay Cameras

Target engine: UE 5.8. APIs below are verified against the 5.8 headers; older forms are listed under "Deprecated — do not use".

Two camera stacks ship in 5.8. The classic stack lives in the Engine module (Classes/Camera, Classes/GameFramework/SpringArmComponent.h) with shake patterns in the EngineCameras plugin and film-style cameras in CinematicCamera; the data-driven Gameplay Camera System lives in the GameplayCameras plugin (Experimental in 5.8, but enabled by default). Build.cs needs "Core", "CoreUObject", "Engine", plus "CinematicCamera" for cine cameras, "EngineCameras" for shake patterns, and "GameplayCameras" for the plugin.

Context

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