Epic Games free learning content for April 2026.

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April 30, 2026

April’s Epic learning content: PCG, MetaHuman, mobile development, and more

Animation

Automotive & Transportation

Epic Online Services

Film & Television

Games

Learning

Lumen

Marvelous Designer

Mesh Terrain

MetaHuman

PCG

Substrate

Tutorials

This month’s free Epic learning content has landed—and there’s a lot to sink your teeth into, from optimizing for mobile to getting started with procedural content generation. 

Check it out to improve your skills, learn new development techniques, and unlock powerful workflows across the Epic ecosystem.

New Epic Games tutorials

Performance Tuning for Unreal Engine Mobile Development

As mobile gaming continues to dominate the industry the need for robust performance tuning has never been more important. Read this tutorial to learn best practices for optimizing mobile games.
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Performance Tuning for Unreal Engine Mobile Development.

Epic Online Services - Best Practices, Tips & Tricks

Take a look at this knowledge base article and learn how to get the most out of Epic Online Services (EOS). It covers everything from the fundamentals to tips on setting up cross-play, multiplayer, game data features, and much more.
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Epic Online Services - Best Practices, Tips & Tricks.

Rendering Setting for Automotive Substrate Materials

Want to render the physically accurate, production-ready materials in the Automotive Substrate Materials pack on Fab? Check out this handy code-snippet that illustrates the correct rendering setting configuration.
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Rendering Setting for Automotive Substrate Materials.

Trending community tutorials

UE5 Series: PCG for Beginners.
Courtesy of Reza Sarkamari

UE5 Series: PCG for Beginners

Learn how to use the Procedural Content Generation (PCG) framework in Unreal Engine by creating your first forest from an empty level. This beginner tutorial series takes you from getting set up and fixing overlapping assets to setting PCG parameters to control trees, rocks, grass, and scaling, directly from the level.
  • #UE5 Series: PCG for Beginners | 01 Level Setup & First PCG Graph
  • #UE5 Series: PCG for Beginners | Avoid Overlapping Assets Easily
  • #UE5 Series: PCG for Beginners | PCG Parameters Explained

Marvelous Designer to UE | Showcasing Garments with MetaHumans

This tutorial demonstrates a complete workflow for showcasing Marvelous Designer garments using MetaHumans in Unreal Engine, producing high-quality cinematic renders with a purpose-built MetaHuman light rig.
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Marvelous Designer to UE: Showcasing Garments with MetaHumans.
Courtesy of Darko Subotin

How to Fix Lumen Light Flickering in Unreal Engine Without Losing Performance

Struggling with Lumen light flickering in your UE5 project? This tutorial shows you exactly how to troubleshoot and fix lighting issues without sacrificing performance.
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How to Fix Lumen Light Flickering in UE Without Losing Performance.
Courtesy of Sergey Maryshev

Epic talks and demos

Workshop | Rigging in Unreal Engine

Designed for riggers and technical artists, this comprehensive workshop will help you develop practical, production-ready skills using Unreal Engine’s Control Rig. You’ll build a complete animation-ready modular biped rig from the ground up, learning workflows and techniques that are immediately applicable in real production pipelines while experimenting with different rigging systems.
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Workshop | Rigging in Unreal Engine.

PCG Blueprint Elements in UE 5.7

Explore how to create Blueprint visual scripting elements in Unreal Engine 5.7 for procedural content generation, and how to manipulate the new point array data.
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PCG Blueprint Elements in UE 5.7.
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