Unreal MCP: Epic's New Plugin, the Community Servers, and How to Get 3D Models Into Unreal

What is Unreal MCP?

The Model Context Protocol is an open standard that lets AI assistants call tools in other software. An Unreal MCP server exposes the editor as a set of those tools: spawn this actor, set that light, compile this Blueprint. Your agent decides which to call while it works on your request.

The name is a little confusing, because it covers two things. Since Unreal Engine 5.8 there is an official plugin from Epic called Unreal MCP. Before that, and still today, several community projects used the same name. Both kinds work with the same agents, and you only need one of them at a time.

Does Unreal Engine have an official MCP server?

Yes. Epic released Unreal Engine 5.8 on June 23, 2026 with an experimental MCP plugin. In the release post Epic says any model can connect to it and understand both the engine and your project, and that it ships with tools for Blueprints, assets, levels, materials, meshes and more.

• The server runs inside the editor process and serves HTTP on your machine only. There is no authentication layer, so the port should never be exposed.
• Tool calls run one at a time on the game thread. Clients should not send overlapping calls.
• The plugin is built to be extended, so studios can add their own editor tools for the agent.
• In the engine source and console commands it is called ModelContextProtocol. Unreal MCP is the name you see in the Plugin Browser.

How do you set up Unreal MCP with Claude Code or Cursor?

1. 1

   Enable the plugins

   Edit › Plugins, search for Unreal MCP and tick it, then do the same for All Toolsets. Both depend on Toolset Registry, which switches on by itself. Restart when asked.

2. 2

   Start the server

   Edit › Editor Preferences › General › Model Context Protocol › Auto Start Server. It then binds to http://127.0.0.1:8000/mcp each time the editor opens. Or type ModelContextProtocol.StartServer in the console when you need it.

3. 3

   Write your agent's config

   In the console run ModelContextProtocol.GenerateClientConfig ClaudeCode (or Cursor, VSCode, Gemini, Codex, All). It writes the config file to your project root.

4. 4

   Open your agent in the project folder

   Start Claude Code or Cursor from the project root so it reads the new config, and approve the server the first time.

ModelContextProtocol.StartServer
ModelContextProtocol.GenerateClientConfig ClaudeCode

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "unreal-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/mcp"
    },
    "3daistudio": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.3daistudio.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The generated file contains the unreal-mcp entry. We added a second entry for 3D AI Studio, which signs in through your browser the first time you use it. If you prefer the command line in Claude Code, run claude mcp add --transport http --scope user 3daistudio https://mcp.3daistudio.com/mcp once and it is available in every project.

Which Unreal MCP server should you use?

On 5.8, Epic's plugin is the natural first choice. The community servers still matter if you are on an older engine version or need deeper Blueprint work.

chongdashu/unreal-mcp

The project most people found first, with around 2,100 GitHub stars. A C++ editor plugin talks to a Python MCP server over a local socket, and the tools cover actors, Blueprint classes and components, Blueprint node graphs and viewport control. It is MIT licensed and labelled experimental, and the open pull requests show people patching it for 5.6 and 5.7.

Flopperam, now part of Aura

Flopperam's repository contains two things: a basic open source local server, and a hosted server with more than 50 tools for Blueprints, materials, VFX, animation, landscape, PCG and more, which needs an API key. The company was acquired by Aura, so check tryaura.dev for current terms. The hosted version supports UE 5.5 to 5.7.

Others worth a look

Newer projects such as ZiggyMar's unreal-mcp focus on reading large Blueprint projects without flooding the model's context. Useful if your project is big and old; less so for a fresh one.

What is Unreal MCP good at?

What can't Unreal MCP do?

How do you get AI-generated 3D models into Unreal?

Run two MCP servers side by side. 3D AI Studio creates the asset, the Unreal server puts it to work. The screenshots at the top of this page are exactly that: a prompt in, a textured character out, then the same character standing in Unreal's third person template.

> I need a weathered stone bird statue for the temple courtyard. Make it, FBX, then put two of them either side of the gate
● 3daistudio · generate_prism_3_1  (text to 3D, textured)
  └ model ready
● 3daistudio · convert_model  (fbx)
Downloaded to Content/Imports/BirdStatue.fbx. Drag it into the Content Browser and tell me when it has imported.
 
> done
● unreal-mcp · spawns 2 × SM_BirdStatue at the gate, mirrors the second one
● unreal-mcp · adds a warm spot light on each statue
Both statues are in place and lit. Want moss on them? I can make a material instance with a green tint.

Here is the kind of model you get. Each small card is the input image, and the stage shows the 3D model 3D AI Studio made from it. Drag to look around, or switch to clay to check the mesh.

Choose an input image

Import settings that save time

• Scale: Unreal works in centimetres. If a model arrives tiny or huge, set the import scale once, or ask the agent to rescale the actor.
• Nanite: for detailed static props, enabling Nanite on the mesh lets you keep the full detail of a generated model without hand-made LODs.
• Collision: generated meshes come without collision. Ask the Unreal server to add simple collision, or set it in the static mesh editor.

Frequently asked questions