We’re excited to announce that Unreal Engine 5.7 is now available, and it includes updates and improvements across the MetaHuman framework. Download now on the Epic Games Launcher, GitHub, and Linux.
You can check out the full release notes here, with some highlights picked out below!
MetaHuman Creator
MetaHuman Creator in Unreal Engine is now available on Linux and macOS, bringing powerful, integrated digital human creation to your preferred platform. If you haven’t already migrated from the MetaHuman Creator web application, follow our migration guide for instructions on how to bring your existing MetaHuman character into Unreal Engine to continue authoring.
We’ve enhanced the body mesh conformation process with support for varied poses, and introduced UV-space vertex correspondence between the conform template and model meshes—enabling more accurate results with less effort. The parametric body controls are also now more intuitive, making it easier to stay within human proportions with increased precision and control.
With this release, you can automate and batch process nearly all editing and assembly operations for MetaHuman character assets using Python or Blueprints. For the first time, you can more deeply integrate MetaHuman Creator into your pipeline and creative workflow with an API that supports sculpting, conforming, wardrobe, rigging, and textures, streamlining full character assembly. Preview edits live in MetaHuman Creator, and either run them interactively in Unreal Editor or on a compute farm for offline processing.
MetaHumans in Unreal Engine
The Unreal Engine Groom Plugin now enables finer control in shaping and animating hair strands with a joint-based workflow. You can now blend simulations with art-directed motion, access full use of skeletal mesh animation workflows, and achieve greater artistic freedom with enhanced selection sets and paint tools. The toolset offers full compatibility for MetaHuman grooms originally created in Houdini.
MetaHuman Animator
Real-time animation from MetaHuman LiveLink sources can now be accessed via a Blueprint interface, with an example graph provided in our documentation.
The workflow for generating calibration data from the checkerboard take—captured using a stereo camera pair—has been improved to provide better automatic frame selection, new visualisation to aid manual frame selection, and repeatable configurations across multiple takes.
The new MetaHuman Animator Calibration Diagnostics plugin (Experimental) also enables you to validate calibration against performance footage to more easily determine if it is the best calibration to use.
MetaHuman Capture
We’ve improved the real-time animation options in the LiveLink Face iOS and Android applications by extending the range of supported cameras.
With LiveLink Face, you can now generate real-time facial animation using an external camera on supported Android devices or iPads. Video can also be recorded from an external camera; this is supported on iPad only.
You can also generate animation in real time by selecting from any on-device camera using Live Link Face on iOS & Android. Video can be recorded from the on-device camera on iOS only.
MetaHuman for Houdini
The latest MetaHuman for Houdini update brings parametric groom tools, a guide-driven workflow for creating hairstyles using pre-authored data. The toolset includes a follicle generator to handle density and positioning around the hairline that generates guides based on flow, length, and volume parameters, as well as hair strand interpolation and styling for advanced detailing such as clumpiness. This is a fast and approachable way to block and iterate new hairstyles.
Meanwhile, for those wanting to learn how to create more advanced hairstyles, we’ve published the new MetaHuman Groom Advanced Kit for Houdini on Fab as an extra learning resource.
MetaHuman for Houdini is now available for Linux, in addition to Windows.
MetaHuman for Maya
The latest update to MetaHuman for Maya is available on Linux, in addition to Windows, and introduces support for Maya 2026.
