News and Community Spotlight | October 6, 2022

NEWS

Unreal Engine 5.1 Preview

Unreal Engine 5.1 has arrived, building upon the work delivered with UE5, making the process of creating next-generation real-time 3D content and experiences even easier and more efficient! Learn more about Lumen, Nanite, and Virtual Shadow Map support for 60fps, Nanite Programmable Rasterizer, enhanced worldbuilding tools, production-ready AI toolset, animation and rigging enhancements including the Machine Learning Deformer, and more!

Unreal Challenge: Creep It Real

Did our latest Challenge creep up on you? You have until October 29th to submit your spooktacular scene video to compete to win cash, software, swag, and other goodies!

Featured free Marketplace content—October 2022

Octobers free Marketplace content is here. Whether you’re looking for goodies to use during the Unreal Challenge, or taking on an underworldly project–spawn AI with Advanced AI Spawn System, decorate your modular environments with 150+ PBR pumpkins variations, and give your creatures the ‘zoombies’ with Modular Interaction Animations to dodge five stylized undead characters! Take fright and grab them while you can!

If you’re looking for more of a treat, FANTASTIC Village Pack is now a part of our permanently free content!

Join us for Broadcast & Live Events Week 2022

Everyone needs that ‘special something.’ Join us from October 10th through 14th and learn how to create memorable moments for sports, music, and news at Broadcast & Live Events Week, as we showcase the best ways to use AR, XR, LED volumes, and more.

“Getting Started With Unreal Engine: Educator’s Edition” videos—out now

Learn how to bring interactive 3D into your classroom in our new video series, as we explore everything from getting your administration on board to free resources made just for you.

Unreal Engine is just the ticket for management sim RAILGRADE

This railway management simulation game by Minakata Dynamics is about much more than hauling coal and laying track. When the studio started reimagining what a management simulation game could be, a focus on storytelling helped put the studio on the fast track to success alongside receiving an Epic MegaGrant. Find out how RAILGRADE delivers a fresh twist on a much-loved genre

The developers of the Remothered saga discuss the creation of brand new IP Batora: Lost Haven

In our latest developer interview, Stormind Games discusses the development process behind the upcoming interplanetary action RPG where you harness the ancient powers of the Sun and Moon, Batora: Lost Haven. They spoke about creating picturesque environments and VFX for the game and explained what receiving an Epic MegaGrant meant to them as a studio and their goals for the game.

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHTS

Senscape’s Cursed Adventurous Jam

Join Senscape for an exciting opportunity to build a quick narrative project in Unreal Engine, an event that welcomes both experienced and novice developers alike! You’ll have two weeks to stir up your creative juices: go experimental, heavy on narrative, perhaps tackle completely visual storytelling, or just good old-fashioned point and click. Submissions are open from October 14th.

WHALIEN - Unexpected Guests

Explore colorful locations, meet loveable characters, and discover intriguing secrets as you push and pull your way through this heartfelt adventure as Ernest Hemingwhale. Set out on a fin-tastic journey to help your friends with his unexpected guests.

The Middle of Nowhere

Mike Liuzzi’s latest project focuses on creating their own photogrammetry meshes from across the world, from Scotland to California, coupled with Quixel Megascans foliage and textures to fill in the gaps.

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