Programming
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.
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.
Bringing Nanite to Fortnite Battle Royale in Chapter 4Discover 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!
Unreal Engine learning content for DecemberDigital puppeteering, connecting virtual cameras to the Live Link VCam app, and a tutorial on creating your own custom tool palette—this month’s free Unreal Engine courses will knock your socks off. Check it out!
C++ for BlueprintersHave you mastered Blueprints and want to take the next step into C++ to leverage more from the engine? It's easier than you think! In this tutorial, you'll learn the basics of exposing C++ to Blueprints, migrating Blueprints, and more.
The 15 best online courses to learn Unreal EngineYou too can learn Unreal Engine. Maybe faster than you think! Want proof? Here are 15 of our most popular courses to get you started, so you can tackle everything from the fundamentals of real-time rendering to lighting and level design.
Learn how to code with Unreal EngineWant to take part in Hour of Code this year? Teach your students computer programming skills using Unreal Engine with these new one hour-long lesson plans.
Calling all teachers: take part in Hour of Code with Epic GamesTo support Hour of Code this Computer Science Week, Epic Games has created a range of brand new lesson plans for teaching computer programming. In part one, explore five Fortnite Creative lessons designed to take just one hour.
Workflow on Fortnite: Collaboration on large teams with UnrealGameSyncIn this new white paper, we discuss the challenges we overcame during the development of our own games including Fortnite, and how you can use the lessons we learned to distribute the Unreal Editor to your team.
Bulkhead Interactive showcases how to port a PC/console game to Nintendo SwitchBulkhead Interactive programmers walk readers through the process of porting a high fidelity first-person experience to Nintendo Switch using Unreal Engine.
Integrating Unreal into Apple's Mac ecosystemInterested in selling your game on the Mac App Store and using first-party Apple Services like GameCenter or iCloud? This step-by-step tutorial shows you how.
Helping brain surgeons practice with real-time simulationHuman anatomy is complex, and so is brain surgery. Find out how a team at The University of Tokyo developed a medical simulation package for brain surgeons with Unreal Engine.
Advanced Text Styling with Rich Text BlockWe explore how to work with the new RichTextBlock widget in UMG both as a UI designer and as a programmer while explaining how you can extend it with additional functionality using Decorator classes.
UE4 helps AnotherWorld VR bring cinematic realism to the KOBOLD VR ExperienceWhen cinema meets VR gaming, how do you keep both horror-movie fans and hardened gamers happy? By immersing them in a world that’s realistic enough to make them believe they’re really there, and frightening enough to make them wish they weren’t.
Balancing Blueprint and C++Should you use Blueprints or C++ for your game’s architecture? The answer isn’t always straightforward. We’ve put together a guide to help you answer this question and a sample RPG to illustrate.
Stream MotionBuilder animation to Unreal Engine with Live LinkDon’t export, stream! The MotionBuilder Live Link plugin streams your MoBu animation, including mocap, into Unreal Engine for simultaneous real-time previews. Get the free plugin today.
Updated Authentication Process for Connecting Epic, GitHub AccountsIn an effort to improve user experience and security, we’ve implemented OAuth functionality to the GitHub/Epic Games account linkage process.
Debugging UFunction::InvokeEpic's Nick Darnell delivers a helpful tip for getting a live snapshot of the callstacks in your UE4 projects.
Discover how Frogwares' 'City Generator' is saving valuable time during development of 'The Sinking City'As with any open world game, one of the main challenges is to create a world that doesn’t get boring - both from a gameplay and visual point of view. Today, we want to talk to you about a solution that we created in Unreal Engine 4 that will help us with the latter.
Unreal Engine Improvements for Fortnite: Battle Royale
In the course of developing the Battle Royale game mode we’ve made many performance, memory, and workflow optimizations that not only benefit Fortnite: Battle Royale but every developer using Unreal Engine 4.
Setting Up A Chroma Key Material in UE4
With AR and mixed reality content creation on the rise, Epic Games’ Principal Technical Artist Ryan Brucks breaks down the process of crafting a basic chroma key function in UE4.