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Experimenting With Real-Time Water In Unreal Engine 5. 8
5+ hour, 33+ min ago (167+ words) Jesse Pitela tests new Niagara Fluids. Jesse Pitela, who you might know for his real-time VFX courses, has been experimenting with new real-time water simulations in Unreal Engine 5. 8 using Niagara and has shared impressive results. In the video above, he…...
How to Turn a Picture Into an Animated 3 D Character
9+ hour, 6+ min ago (1109+ words) If you want to turn a picture into an animated 3 D character for a game pipeline, the most useful starting point is a workflow that can carry the asset from image input to rigging, motion testing, and export without unnecessary…...
Senior Unreal Engine engineer Nicholas Penwarden leaves Epic Games after 15 years
15+ hour, 33+ min ago (192+ words) Penwarden started at Epic Games in April 2011 as a senior engine programmer and was most recently an Engineering Fellow at the company. Another high-level developer has left Epic Games and its Unreal Engine development team this week as former Engineering…...
Apply for Epic Mega Grants to Support Innovative Unreal Engine Projects
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (319+ words) Epic Mega Grants is a global funding program that supports innovative projects built with Unreal Engine and related real-time 3 D technologies. The program provides grants typically ranging from $5, 000 to $75, 000, with exceptional projects receiving up to $150, 000, while allowing recipients to retain…...
Kawaii Physics Updated For Unreal Engine 5. 8
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (230+ words) Kazuya Okada has launched Kawaii Physics v1. 21, his pseudo-physics plug-in for Unreal Engine that makes it easy to create simple motion for hair, clothing, accessories, and other swaying objects. The main highlight of this release is the added support for Unreal…...
Fake Real-Time Collision System In Geometry Nodes
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (144+ words) Gurgen Aloian may turn it into a release or a tutorial. Gurgen explained the setup like this: "No physics involved. It's super stylized in that regard. It's pretty much " is it inside another mesh? Backfire normals to the outer shell…...
Aura 15. 0 Releases with New Features and Unlimited Usage for Unreal Engine and Unity
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (178+ words) Advancements to Aura released in the last week include: Watch the Aura Crash Course- Verification Agent, Level Blockouts and Materials video To date, over 30, 000 game developers have benefited from the suite of AI assistance spanning Aura, Coplay and Flopperam. Through…...
Ramen releases Aura 15. 0 to assist game devs with Unreal Engine and Unity | exclusive interview
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (1217+ words) Ramen'has released'Aura 15. 0, the latest update for its multi-agent AI assistant supporting both Unreal and Unity game development. This update follows just a week after the launch of v14. 0, which included Unreal Engine 5. 8 support, up to two times speed and accuracy improvements…...
Epic Games Unveils Unreal Engine 6 Timeline and Cross Platform Economy Vision
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (315+ words) To address this, Epic Games is taking a step out of the C++ handbook for advanced game play coding and moving to Verse, a scripting language brought to the table by the Fortnite creator community. The move is to allow…...
Epic Promises a Breakthrough: Unreal Engine 5. 8 to Boost Games Even on Switch 2
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (122+ words) Epic Games released Unreal Engine 5. 8, describing it as the most efficient version of the engine to date. This update builds on the performance gains seen in version 5. 7, which improved GPU performance by 25% and CPU performance by 35%. The Lumen global illumination…...