Topic

Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine 5.5 now available

Unreal Engine 5.5 has been released, just a month after its preview version and roughly six months after the 5.4 update. The latest version brings numerous improvements, with a focus on rendering performance, in-editor animation tools, mobile game development, visual production, and faster developer iteration. Let's briefly go over the highlight features in this release:

Published: 18. Nov. 2024

News

Nanite Grass V3 - A visually impressive grass asset for Unreal Engine

Nanite Grass is a realistic grass asset for Unreal Engine, created by 3D environment artist Cloviren. It provides fully geometric grass for games and real-time rendering, without relying on alpha masks and it's optimized for Nanite (Unreal's virtualized geometry system). The asset includes an array of features and allows seamless interaction with characters and other objects.

Published: 11. Nov. 2024

News

Reallusion launches Character Creator integration with Unreal Engine

Reallusion has released the CC UE Control Rig, a free plugin for Character Creator (CC) users. This plugin speeds up production by enabling users to animate custom characters directly within Unreal Engine. It uses the MetaHuman Control Rig, familiar to Unreal Engine users, to handle full-body movement and facial expressions. Reallusion has stated that despite the recent introduction of UE Modular Control Rig in Unreal Engine 5.4 and advancements in MetaHuman animation, preparing fully customized or original IP characters for animation in Unreal Engine remains challenging.

Published: 10. Jun. 2024

News

Unreal Engine 5.4 now available

Unreal Engine version 5.4 has recently been released with a significant focus on its animation and rendering aspects, including improvements in performance, visual fidelity, and productivity. Without further ado, let's go over the highlights of this release: On the animation front, there have been several new additions. Firstly, Automatic Retargeting simplifies the process of reusing bipedal character animations, ensuring excellent results. The Skeletal Editor has been expanded with new features, and a range of new deformer functions have been introduced to the Deformer Graph.

Published: 29. Apr. 2024

News

New worldbuilding tool for Unreal Engine previewed

A new worldbuilding tool for Unreal Engine 5 is being developed by Paul Martin Eliasz, a Senior Technical Artist and recognized Unreal Engine enthusiast. The tool is built upon the Procedural Content Generation Framework (PCG), which was featured in our coverage back in March 2023 during the preview release of Unreal Engine 5.2.

Published: 19. Feb. 2024

News

Unreal Engine 5.2 Preview available for download

At GDC 2023, Epic Games gave us a glimpse of Unreal Engine 5.2 during their keynote presentation. In addition to other features, this update will introduce a new Substrate material system and a new procedural content generation framework.

Published: 27. Mar. 2023