To help you explore all the new features in Unreal Engine 5, we’re offering two free sample projects for you to download.
Lyra Starter Game
Lyra Starter Game is a sample gameplay project built alongside Unreal Engine 5 development to serve as an excellent starting point for creating new games, as well as a hands-on learning resource. We plan to continue to upgrade this living project with future releases to demonstrate our latest best practices.
The City Sample is a free downloadable sample project that reveals how the city scene from The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience was built. The project—which consists of a complete city with buildings, vehicles, and crowds of MetaHuman characters—demonstrates how we used new and improved systems in Unreal Engine 5 to create the experience. In addition to the complete sample, the content is available in separate packs, so you can download just the vehicles, for example. Three related third-party content packs are also available.
I wasn’t able to open nor the City Sample nor the character’s one. It’s like missing things all around. I just simply didn’t try to open any of the others.
If you’re looking for the Lyra Starter Game content (such as maps and blueprints for specific game types), it is added via PlugIn -
LyraExample Content - shared materials, such as grids.
ShooterCore Content - the core elements of the LyraShooterGame experience - gameplay logic for both modes, specific Gameplay Abilities like Dash, Blueprints for actors such as
teleporters and grenades, Bots, Weapons and User Interface elements.
ShooterMaps Content - the maps used by the LyraShooterGame (Expanse and Convolution), with associated materials and content
TopDownArena Content - the content for the TopDownArena experience, from the map generator to power ups.
I downloaded the CitySample project, and opened it in UE, but all I get is a black screen with some white lettering. I read the “READ ME” - and it has a lot of information about Houdini. Is a Houdini subscription required to explore and use the CitySample project? If not, how do I get beyond this black screen to the actual demo?
Good evening, i’m having a lot of plugin issues with City Sample, it just doesn’t open i’ve downloaded the project 3 times already, it requires a few plugins for UE5 that i’m unable to find and install on my enginve version. anybody else had this kind of issues?
I downloaded the Lyra sample game for UE5, but am getting some errors trying to open this in Unreal Engine 5. Is this game fully compatible for UE5? Is there anything I need to install before launching the Lyra game project?
Loved this demo. I liked the locomotion system, dash, weapon anims feels good, reloads anims, etc, all together are really fun to play. Everything looks and plays solid. AI behaves well and the integrated level design tools are fantastic. I have just initiated my first game mod using Paragon skins. Thank you, Epic team for such successful launch.
Finally achieved to open the City Sample. I just needed Visual Studio Community 2022, instead of 2019.
About the City Sample Crowds, there are still problems; when I open it, there are even empty folders, and those with content, aparently including already applied materials when looking them from the Conten Browser, are without any materials too whe opening them. And of course, I don’t find any ready-to-use human (is it as is intended to be, or also ready humans are missing?)
The City is showing me some errors related to assets saved with a newer version of the engine, and even the Content Examples project too, telling me it can’t open the initial map, due to being saved with a newer version:
