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Unreal Engine

Modular third-person shooter system now available for Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine developer Kumar Roshan has released a modular third-person shooter core system aimed at simplifying the development of such games in Unreal Engine. By eliminating the need to build core systems from scratch, this tool can potentially save developers months of work, allowing them to focus on the unique features of their game rather than spending valuable time reinventing the wheel.

Published: 14. Jul. 2025

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Odyssey – The 2D animation software is now a free plugin for Unreal Engine

Odyssey was a standalone 2D animation software powered by Unreal Engine, developed by Praxinos, a French company based in northeastern France. The software was available in beta in 2023, with its first official release following in February 2024. Recently, the standalone version of Odyssey was discontinued and reimagined as a 2D animation toolset plugin for Unreal Engine.

Published: 7. Jul. 2025

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Unreal Engine 5.6 has been released

Unreal Engine 5.6 has arrived, maintaining its regular cadence of major updates approximately every six months. This release comes with a strong emphasis on overall engine performance, aiming to help developers create larger-scale open worlds that run smoothly on current-generation hardware. Other areas of focus include continued efforts to minimize the need for round-tripping to DCC (Digital Content Creation) tools for animation and rigging, as well as the ability to author MetaHumans directly within the engine. Together, these improvements were made to deliver a more streamlined and integrated development experience.

Published: 9. Jun. 2025

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UE5 Retro FX - A retro gaming effects suite for Unreal Engine

UE5 Retro FX is a free collection of effects for Unreal Engine 5, tailored for developing games with retro-style aesthetics. The pack includes features that enable developers to recreate the distinctive visuals of classic consoles and games, such as those from the PlayStation 1, Nintendo 64, and others. The tool is developed by EvilReFlex, a hobbyist modder and game designer with roots in level design for Half-Life 1, who gradually transitioned to working with Unreal Engine.

Published: 2. Jun. 2025

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SideFX's Project Grot offers free procedural tools for Unreal Engine

Project Grot is an in-house tech demo from SideFX (the creators of Houdini 3D software), unveiled in May 2024, to showcase the versatility and creativity that procedural generation can bring to game development. Along with the demo, SideFX has started releasing tutorials that explain how the Houdini tools used in the project's pipeline were created and later applied by layout artists in Unreal Engine. These tutorials offer valuable insights into how Houdini and Unreal Engine work together, and are accompanied by project files containing the resulting tools created by following the outlined steps.

Published: 13. Jan. 2025

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Camera Composition Overlays - A Toolkit to Enhance Unreal Engine's Cinematics

Camera Composition Overlays is a free pack of landscape camera composition overlays for Unreal Engine 5, created by Akintayo Adewole. It is designed to enhance in-game cinematics and other virtual productions by helping to create visually striking and engaging imagery.

Published: 16. Dec. 2024

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Abstraction Generator - A new tool for real-time abstract VFX in Unreal Engine

Abstraction Generator is a recently released tool for Unreal Engine that creates abstract visual effects in real time. Developed by Adam Drzazga, it is part of the author's Niagara Fluids series, using Unreal Engine 5's advanced Niagara VFX system to simulate fluid dynamics. The tool includes 21 Niagara Fluids systems: 8 that use a mesh renderer for spawning and 13 that use a sprite renderer. It offers around 50 user parameters to customize effects quickly, including settings for textures, shaders, and particle spawns in Niagara Fluids.

Published: 2. Dec. 2024

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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