Features
Unreal Engine’s improved royalty reporting system
There’s a new and improved Unreal Engine royalty reporting system on the Developer Portal, making it easier than ever to report revenue and calculate royalties.GungHo Online Entertainment America switches to Unreal Engine for future projects
GungHo Online Entertainment America, a subsidiary of the Japanese developer known for action-puzzle franchise Puzzle & Dragons, has moved its game development pipeline to Unreal Engine. Find out what drove it to make the switch.Bringing Unreal Engine on macOS up to feature parity with Windows—progress report
Today, we’re excited to share a comprehensive update on the state of Unreal Engine running on macOS devices. Our goal is to achieve feature parity with Windows and provide a cohesive experience for users across all platforms. Find out how we’re doing.
Unreal Engine 5.5 is now availableThis release brings major enhancements to animation authoring, rendering, virtual production, mobile game development, and developer iteration toolsets—and much, much more.
Fab, Epic’s new unified content marketplace, launches today!Today, Epic launches Fab, a one-stop destination where you can discover, buy, sell, and share digital assets. This new marketplace supports all types of creators with content for use across Unreal Engine, Unity 3D, UEFN and other digital content creation tools.
Fab content marketplace launches in October; publishing portal opens todayWe’re excited to share that Fab will launch in mid-October. Fab will be a one-stop destination where you can discover, buy, sell, and share assets.
Take a deep dive into Nanite GPU-driven materialsLearn about the GPU-driven material pipeline’s core components and how they fit into Nanite’s overall design in this GDC 2024 presentation.
Unreal Engine 5.4 is now availableThis release is packed with new features and improvements that will benefit game developers and creators across industries, including the toolsets we’ve been using internally to build and ship Fortnite Chapter 5, Rocket Racing, Fortnite Festival, and LEGO Fortnite.
Bringing Verse Transactional Memory Semantics to C++From Fortnite version 28.10, some of our servers are compiled with a new compiler that gives C++ transactional memory semantics compatible with Verse. Find out how the compiler and its runtime work and how this will impact the Verse ecosystem.
Create more realistic animation in less time with Pose Driver Connect Your ankle bone’s connected to your knee bone—but is your scapula connected to your clavicle? If not, you might be interested in our new toolset that means you can author secondary animation in Maya and recreate it one-for-one in Unreal Engine.
Unreal Engine 5.3 brings new potential for media and entertainment projectsBuilding on innovations made in the earlier releases, the recent release of Unreal Engine 5.3 sees further advances to the virtual production toolset—as well as refinements to the broader feature sets—and prepares for the next generation of ICVFX stages.
Unreal Engine 5.3 is now available!This release brings numerous wide-ranging improvements, together with some exciting new Experimental features, as we continue to expand UE5’s functionality and potential for game developers and creators across industries. Find out what’s new.
Delivering high-quality facial animation in minutes, MetaHuman Animator is now available!Capture a facial performance for your digital human using just an iPhone and a PC and turn it into facial animation for your MetaHuman in minutes. Fast, easy, and cost-effective, MetaHuman Animator unlocks facial performance capture for all creators.
White paper: Reducing Fortnite’s power consumptionLearn how we cut energy costs for players by reducing Fortnite’s energy consumption, and get tips, recommendations, and code examples that you can use to bring these energy savings to your own game.
Dream builders: Recreating the original vision for Habitat 67 with an Unreal Engine and RealityCapture Sample ProjectMoshe Safdie's original vision for Habitat 67 has been recreated virtually, so anyone can explore one of the most important buildings of the 20th century in a new sample project. Find out how Neoscape, Epic, Safdie Architects, and others did it today.
Unreal Engine 5.2 brings native support for Apple Silicon and other developments for macOSStarting with Unreal Engine 5.2, the Unreal Editor for macOS is built and distributed as a universal binary, providing native support for past-generation Intel-based and current-generation Apple Silicon-based Macs in a single package. This tech blog will explain what that means for you.
Unreal Engine 5.2 is now available!This release further expands UE5's groundbreaking toolset as it continues to deliver on the promise of making Unreal Engine the most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool in the world. Find out what’s new.
Watch the Unreal Fellowship: Worldbuilding sizzle reelSee the unique worlds industry professionals created in only three weeks, as they explored the core principles of real-time production design and real-time worldbuilding.
Battle-testing Unreal Engine 5.1’s new features on Fortnite Battle Royale Chapter 4In this blog, we’ll look at some of the Unreal Engine 5 features that benefited from being put through their paces in Fortnite Battle Royale Chapter 4, and the resulting improvements in UE 5.1 that will empower you to create more detailed and faster open world games.
Lumen brings real-time global illumination to Fortnite Battle Royale Chapter 4Discover how Lumen elevated the lighting in Fortnite Battle Royale Chapter 4 with accurate global illumination, ray-traced reflections on glossy surfaces (even indoors), and dynamic lighting that reacts to game events in real time.
Virtual Shadow Maps in Fortnite Battle Royale Chapter 4Explore 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.