Hello Epic Games,
I’m planning to writing you for a long time and now I decided to write you about some important features.
Unreal Engine 4 is my favourite game engine and also I loved UDK 3, but UE4 is best month by month.
But, there are some features that are missing and I said “I will wait…” again, again and again.
But, I can’t wait any more and I feel that now is time to asking these features, until is not too late.
Since these features are very important to me, I want to share with you my ideas and I want to request you
to make these features because without these features, I can’t make a great game.
Also, Steam platform wants me to make a great AAA game and I want it too, but there is no synchronization
between Steam and UE4. So, next I will list all my wishes that I want to see in UE4 next time.
1. Please add in animations “Opacity” feature for Canvas Panels.
Why? I want to make more easy an menu for my game and I want to add more canvas panels and every panel will
include more menus, such as: main menu, options and about. But, when I want to make an transition between
one to another one canvas panel I want to apply one fade in and fade out effect by opacity feature and now
this is impossible, so I’m forced to create a lot of Widget Blueprints for each frame or section from menu.
2. Please add “Soft shadow” for the texts from Widget Blueprints.
Why? I need this soft shadow for the texts because I can’t manage to make the text in a good visibility on
every situation from the game because of lighting from 3D space and the text cannot be seen or recognized.
If I add a shadow, this actual shadow from Widget Blueprint is not soft and doesn’t look nice.
I noticed about “Background Blur” under “Special Effects” from Widget Blueprints and I think if you did this
effect you can also make this for the text shadow.
3. Please add “3D Perspective” special canvas panel to make some UI in perspective and also to animate the
perspective like flip card like in CSS3 from HTML5.
Why? I can do some tricks to make this, but it requires a lot of time and is not a easy way to make it
happen and also this affects the FPS rate.
4. Please improve the reflections from metallic material surface.
Why? When I look up or down or another angle, that depends of the mesh, the reflection is not stable.
I noticed this issue a lot of time and I’m sure is not just me, since this can be noticed also on YouTube
in a lot of videos.
*And the last one that doesn’t matter, but it’s a feature that makes the life with UE4 more easy. *
5. Please add “Categories” on Library -> Vault from Epic Games Launcher.
Why? When I want to take a look for a bought item from UE4 Marketplace, easily I’m lost in a lot of items.
So, If I select from the category: blueprints, materials or code plug-ins, this will help me to find the
desired item, more easy.
**Thank you for reading my requests and I hope to get a positive answer from you, Epic Games. **