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Explore how Virtual Shadow Maps combine with the power of Nanite to efficiently render accurate shadows—from close range all the way to the horizon—in Fortnite Battle Royale Chapter 4.
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Bringing Nanite to Fortnite Battle Royale in Chapter 4
Discover how the new Nanite Programmable Rasterizer in Unreal Engine 5.1 enables you to leverage features like World Position Offset, Pixel Depth Offset, custom UVs, and more—and see the system in action in Fortnite Battle Royale Chapter 4!
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Virtual Assets in Unreal Engine 5.1—smaller, faster data syncs
Want a way to streamline your game development process with smaller workspaces and faster data syncs? A new feature released with Unreal Engine 5.1 could be just the thing you’re looking for. Explore Virtual Assets in this tech blog.
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May 27
Unreal Engine 5 goes all-in on dynamic global illumination with Lumen
Lumen is Unreal Engine 5’s new fully dynamic global illumination and reflections system. Lumen is enabled out of the box, ushering in a new era of dynamic lighting in games where artists can forget about multi-hour lighting builds and designers can create more dynamic worlds.
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Unreal Engine 5 goes all-in on dynamic global illumination with Lumen
Lumen is Unreal Engine 5’s new fully dynamic global illumination and reflections system. Lumen is enabled out of the box, ushering in a new era of dynamic lighting in games where artists can forget about multi-hour lighting builds and designers can create more dynamic worlds.
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May 4
Chaos Scene Queries and Rigid Body Engine in UE5
With Unreal Engine 5.0, our internal physics engine Chaos ships as the default physics engine. This document will cover the current state of UE 5.0 physics and touch on the ongoing work that will be done for 5.1.
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Chaos Scene Queries and Rigid Body Engine in UE5
With Unreal Engine 5.0, our internal physics engine Chaos ships as the default physics engine. This document will cover the current state of UE 5.0 physics and touch on the ongoing work that will be done for 5.1.
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January 19
Download an Unreal Engine 5 Early Access game starter kit featuring a small robot
Get stuck in Stack’O’Bot, a small sandbox project that showcases a lean player controller, an expandable interaction system, and modular pieces you can build on. It also shows all the new features of Unreal Engine 5 in a practical vertical slice.
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Download an Unreal Engine 5 Early Access game starter kit featuring a small robot
Get stuck in Stack’O’Bot, a small sandbox project that showcases a lean player controller, an expandable interaction system, and modular pieces you can build on. It also shows all the new features of Unreal Engine 5 in a practical vertical slice.
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Animating and rigging the robot in Valley of the Ancient
Jeremiah Grant, Technical Product Manager at Epic Games, explains the mentality, implementation, and tools used to rig and animate ‘The Ancient One,’ the massive robot encountered at the end of UE5 Early Access project, Valley of the Ancient.
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Ore Creative explains how to leverage Editor Utility Widgets to stylize your game
Ira Act 1: Pilgrimage creator Zachary Downer shares his stylization pipeline to create the atmospheric visuals for the upcoming adventure game.
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April 24
Skydance Interactive goes deep on visual haptics and VR physicality in The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
Skydance Interactive Co-Founder and Chief Technologist Peter T. Akemann provides an overview for The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ combat system and details of some of the tricks, techniques, and key insights that the VR developer employed.
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Skydance Interactive goes deep on visual haptics and VR physicality in The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
Skydance Interactive Co-Founder and Chief Technologist Peter T. Akemann provides an overview for The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ combat system and details of some of the tricks, techniques, and key insights that the VR developer employed.
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November 4
Pushing the boundaries of mobile VR with stunning environments
Force Field Entertainment Chief Engineer Sander Smid-Merlijn and Principal Technical Artist Ron Kamphuis explain how they push texture resolution and graphical fidelity by building tools that allow them to optimize static environments.
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Pushing the boundaries of mobile VR with stunning environments
Force Field Entertainment Chief Engineer Sander Smid-Merlijn and Principal Technical Artist Ron Kamphuis explain how they push texture resolution and graphical fidelity by building tools that allow them to optimize static environments.
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August 27
Exploring Unreal Engine 4.20’s Mobile Optimizations
Epic’s Director of Engine Development Nick Penwarden and Senior Engineer Pete Sauerbrei took to the livestream to discuss the numerous optimizations, features and stability improvements for mobile platforms.
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Exploring Unreal Engine 4.20’s Mobile Optimizations
Epic’s Director of Engine Development Nick Penwarden and Senior Engineer Pete Sauerbrei took to the livestream to discuss the numerous optimizations, features and stability improvements for mobile platforms.