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Starship is a runtime C++ plugin (with full Blueprint support) for Unreal Engine 5 that adds a complete 6DOF spacecraft pawn. Walk up to it on foot, board it, then fly, hover, land and take off, in atmosphere or deep space, in single-player or multiplayer.

The ship is anti-gravity powered: gravity never drags it down, it only sets which way is “up”, so releasing the controls leaves it hovering in place. It reads the engine’s variable gravity and aligns to your world automatically. A six-state flight model picks the right behaviour from gravity, ground proximity and engine state. On top of that you get a fast space-flight cruise, landing on water and steep ground, an approach auto-brake, thrust-vectoring engines, telescoping landing gear, passengers, and a network-replicated pawn with a client-authoritative flight model.

Current version

1.2

Unreal Engine

5.4 – 5.8

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Who it’s for

Space and sci-fi games, planetary exploration, landers and shuttles, co-op and multiplayer games with player-flyable ships, and on-foot-plus-ship gameplay: any project that needs an atmosphere-to-space spacecraft with a built-in pilot-and-passenger loop, without writing 6DOF flight, space cruise, landing logic, engine vectoring, landing gear or multiplayer replication from scratch.

How it works in one minute

Drop the included BP_Starship into your level (or make a Blueprint from AStarshipPawn). It is ready to fly as-is: the lander mesh, vectoring engines, exhaust FX, landing gear and HUD are already set up. Set Auto Possess Player to fly it directly, or leave it Disabled and walk up to it with your own character to board. Your character needs no changes, because the interact binding is injected onto its Enhanced Input.

Thrust to fly, climb up or down for altitude, hold descend at the hover floor to land and hold ascend to take off. Fly high enough to leave gravity and the ship enters space; bring the engines online to cruise.

Next steps

• Features: everything Starship does.
• Requirements: engine versions and plugin dependencies.
• Quick start: fly the included ship, land it, take it into space and board it on foot.