# Installation

## Requirements

- Unreal Engine **5.5-5.8**
- Dependent plugins: **MovaCore**, **EnhancedInput**, **Niagara**, **MetaSound**,
  **OnlineSubsystem**
- The runtime module uses **JsonUtilities** (for presets)

## Adding the plugin to a project

1. Copy the `MovaInteract` folder into your project's `Plugins/` directory (or
   install it from the Fab marketplace listing, which places it there for you).
2. Open the project. Unreal will prompt to rebuild modules if this is a C++ project:
   accept it.
3. In the editor, go to **Edit → Plugins** and confirm **Mova Interact** is enabled
   under the *Mova* category.
4. Restart the editor if prompted.

## Enabling for a Blueprint-only project

No C++ project is required. All plugin functionality: adding the component,
setting up interactions, wiring the Interactor, presets, save/load, is available
from Blueprint and the editor UI alone.

## Verifying the install

Confirm **Mova Interact** appears under **Edit → Plugins → Mova** and is enabled.
Then build Recipe 1 in {doc}`quickstart` (a door that opens on the first press
and closes on the next), which exercises the Control Panel, the tag grammar, and
playback end to end in about 60 seconds. See {doc}`../guides/debugging` if the
plugin does not appear or an interaction does nothing.

## Next step

{doc}`quickstart`: three worked recipes that build a door, a proximity lamp, and a
gated drawer in a few minutes each.