Join us for the State of Unreal 2022 | Tuesday, April 5

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Ready for what’s next? Join us on Tuesday, April 5 for our State of Unreal livestream, where we’ll explore what’s in store for the future of games—and announce some exciting news! There’s no need to register, simply tune in on YouTube or Twitch to watch.

Then stick around for an afternoon packed full of tech talks; the day’s agenda below:

Time Details Speakers
11:00 AM EDT                              

State of Unreal Keynote

Ready for what’s next? Don’t miss our keynote for some very special Unreal Engine news.
 		 Tim Sweeney, Kim Libreri, Dana Cowley, Nick Penwarden, Zak Parrish, Teddy Bergsman Lind, Sjoerd de Jong
12.30 PM EDT

The Matrix Awakens: Creating a World

Discover how Epic’s Special Projects team leveraged UE5 to create the environment in The Matrix Awakens. We’ll cover our modular procedural approach to building creation; Open World workflows (One File Per Actor, Data Layers, HLODs, level instancing); lookdev breakdowns of materials and texturing; and updates on improvements to Lumen, our global illumination and reflections system.
 		 Jerome Platteaux, Votch Levi, Scott Clifford
1.30 PM EDT

The Matrix Awakens: Generating a World

Find out how we procedurally generated the city for The Matrix Awakens demo using a combination of Unreal Engine-native procedural tools and a game-changing new Houdini workflow.

We’ll dive into the different construction steps and technical challenges that we faced along the way.
 		 Quentin Marmier, Robert Osbourne, Julien Marchand
2.30 PM EDT

Creating your first game in Unreal Engine

Tune in for a fast-paced and inspirational tech talk on creating a game in Unreal Engine.
 		 Andreas Suika
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Oooh! Maybe an official UE5 release date? :wink: :wink:

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Mhmmmm… too scary to consider the April Fool’s let down… so no. :sunglasses::wink:

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Hope any news for Verse, if that’s the upcoming scripting language.

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:eyes:

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Acquire Unity :rofl:

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Come on Verse news! Ever since that little tease everything has been super quiet.

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OMG! Finally… official release announcement?!

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maybe-robert-downey-jr

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Why don’t they say the announcement now and save us suffering 6 days?

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main branch says Unreal Editor 5.1.0 so likley.
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If any of the three is included, I’ll be very excited.

  1. Official announcement of Verse with REAL info. Please stop teasing and share some info so that we can give some feedback before it gets written in stone.

  2. UE5 release, or at least the release date.

  3. Revival of Unreal Tournament, the origin of Epic but long forgotten. sad… very sad…

In other words, it won’t matter much otherwise.
Yeah, I’m not interested to see more eye candies and I’m pretty much convinced already. ^^

Cheers!

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Got 1.5/3 - UE5 released, and a sample arena FPS project.

Definitely keen to hear about Verse too, but seems like we have to wait for a bit longer.