August learning content: MetaHuman, MetaSounds, and more.

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It’s time to expand your mind, unlock your imagination, and take your brain for a spin. August’s free learning content is here!

Jump in for everything from animating with MetaHuman and creating Blueprint-controlled particle effects to uncovering the ways Epic Online Services can be used in your projects.

New Epic Games tutorials

How to Merge a MetaHuman Animator Head onto a Body Using a Custom Anim Blueprint

MetaHuman Animator is great for recording facial performances. Often, people record the body motion at the same time—but what if that’s not possible? This tutorial goes over the steps to layer your face and head motion smoothly on top of existing body motion.

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Online Course: How to Merge a MetaHuman Animator Head onto a Body.

Epic Online Services How-To Guides

Series 1 of our new How-To Guides walks you through adding Achievements, Stats, and Leaderboards with Epic Online Services—step by step. Looking to make your game stickier and more social? These features help deepen engagement and keep players coming back.

Niagara Tutorials: Fire and Smoke Effect

These Niagara tutorials are preliminary modules that you should complete before moving on to the next part in the series: ‘Blueprints: Controlling Niagara Particles’.

The series explores the process of creating a level in which a player has to maneuver through a platform scattered with explosive mines.

In these initial modules, you’ll learn how to use Niagara to create explosives that emit smoke to signal an impending detonation before blowing up.

Once you’ve completed these modules, move on to the ‘Blueprints: Controlling Niagara Particles’ modules up next to learn how to make them eliminate any colliding player on explosion.

Blueprints: Controlling Niagara Particles

This three-part tutorial series teaches you how to control visual effects created with Niagara using the Blueprint visual scripting system. You’ll use the effects created in the previous Niagara tutorials on fire and smoke for this series.

Part 1 explores how to programmatically control Niagara particles using Blueprints.
Part 2 dives into how to use the Level Blueprint to manage multiple copies of the BP_FXVent that you created in Part 1.
Part 3 demonstrates how to eliminate the player based on their collision with the fire explosion effect.

Blueprints: Controlling Niagara Particles.

UE 5.4-5.6: Using Idle/Breathing Animations with MetaHuman Animator for Natural-Looking Instructional Videos

In this tutorial, Bruno Cavarsan uses facial motion capture with idle/breathing body animations to demonstrate how to create simple but effective instructional content with MetaHumans.

MetaHuman Animator for natural-looking instructional videos.

Courtesy of Bruno Cavarsan

How to Create a Poison Effect Using GAS

Learn how to create a poison gameplay mechanic using Gameplay Ability System Gameplay Effect.

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Courtesy of QuodSoler

Sound Design and Audio Metering in Unreal Engine MetaSounds

This video showcases a workflow for audio metering, spatialization, and mastering in Unreal Engine using MetaSounds, with Logic Pro integration via BlackHole. This hybrid approach combines MetaSounds’ real-time flexibility with DAW-based precision, producing immersive, balanced audio for experimental and interactive projects.

Take a look

Sound Design and Audio Metering in MetaSounds.

Epic talks and demos

Unreal Fest 2025: Control Rig: Tips & Tricks for Games

In this session recorded at Unreal Fest Orlando 2025, we cover a number of tips and tricks that showcase some useful features when running control rigs in real time, including aspects like dynamics, animation adjustments, driving morph targets, procedural animation, and more.

MetaHuman: Facial Expression Editing | Unreal Fest Orlando 2025

Watch this session recorded at Unreal Fest Orlando 2025 to find out about MetaHuman for Maya, the new Autodesk Maya plugin developed by Epic Games. The presentation focuses on the MetaHuman Expression Editor to edit facial expressions.

In case you missed it, we just released a new version of the MetaHuman for Maya plugin that also enables you to edit their bodies; you can find out more about what’s new on our forum post.

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