Unreal Engine 4.13 Preview

General Announcements
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I’m hyped, as always! :slight_smile:
Can we get some info about these mysteries?
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Yes it would be interesting to know about those but if I had to make a far guess, maybe Physical animation component is something similar to this: UDK | PhysicalAnimation

Maybe : ).

I would like to know more about: “Texture Coordinate (UV) info from Line Traces”

Does this mean that drawing realtime a mask or something similar onto a texture of an object or landscape via a trace is now possible in a much more straightforward way?

Thanks.

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[=pekayatt;575422]

Looking forward for Forward Rendering as well… :stuck_out_tongue:
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I don’t expect that to be in 4.13 yet, though it would be nice. Its marked for August on the Roadmap and completed in August means it missed the 4.13 deadline and will be in 4.14.

Edit: Ok, 4.13 has this setting already:

http://puu.sh/qoTX8/4027e857cd.png

But I would not expect it to work :wink:

Edit 2: Ok, I tested it and it actually works :smiley:

Tested with the particle effects demo. There are some rendering bugs with forward, but it looks roughly same. Forward is 14% faster in this test here. Not much.

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Media Player Overhaul :slight_smile: ! I flipping love it so far! I’m a happy CHADALAK1 ! Going to do some test with the Android wizard as well

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No new GI? This is not true? http://9gag.com/gag/aBYzgLD/unreal-engine-beta-release-4-13-promises-significant-improvements-in-real-time-global-illumination-and-hard-body-dynamics

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Glad for the release. May I ask exactly what does that Android packaging wizard do? Just finished an android game here.

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[=CHADALAK1;575471]
Media Player Overhaul :slight_smile: ! I flipping love it so far! I’m a happy CHADALAK1 ! Going to do some test with the Android wizard as well
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Can you check to see if it works on

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[=jojo8026;575489]
Can you check to see if it works on
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I would if I had a to work with :frowning: . Sorry jojo. Hopefully someone on here can test it.

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Any UE-22228 mentioned in this post will be included? Sequencer Bug: Camera Rotate - Cinematics & Media - Epic Developer Community Forums

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[=BálintYYY;575475]
No new GI? This is not true? http://9gag.com/gag/aBYzgLD/unreal-engine-beta-release-4-13-promises-significant-improvements-in-real-time-global-illumination-and-hard-body-dynamics
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…why would you believe (or even read) anything on 9gag? The site is horribad.

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[=BálintYYY;575475]
No new GI? This is not true? http://9gag.com/gag/aBYzgLD/unreal-engine-beta-release-4-13-promises-significant-improvements-in-real-time-global-illumination-and-hard-body-dynamics
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No, it’s not. I’m not sure where that rumor sprung up, but we only just got the topic back in focus on the to-do list recently, they won’t have results so quickly.

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does this release come with the new content examples?

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[=CHADALAK1;575491]
I would if I had a to work with :frowning: . Sorry jojo. Hopefully someone on here can test it.
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Ok thanks :slight_smile:

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Can we please get detailed information from on the new drawMaterialtoRenderTarget stuff? he had an awesome tweet showing a 2d puddle wave sim. Are there going to be docs on this?

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Pitch input stops working when deploying to Google Cardboard, then disabling “Enable HMD”.

Hope this can be fixed as it’s a blocker for VR with non VR fallback!

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Alembic Import… Thanks Epic Team!

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Is the ability to render out alpha passed for cinematics included? Found a thread that, well, last comment was that it would be out in 4.13

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[=MetricZero;575397]
Dunno where I’d request a feature, but more than anything I’d love for a more simple way to create non-euclidean levels (infinite hallways, hallways that circle back on themselves, rooms bigger on the inside, seamless portal doors, etc.)
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You can do that know fairly easily, just use level streaming / portals.

VR Template, yay!

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Landscape Updates:
Optimization of Landscape Material Shader permutations
Landscape Tessellation Performance Improvements
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I just tried with my landscape Material imported from 4.12.5 , everytime editor crashed

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Does this preview have the Retina/Windows High density support in it? I checked the settings but didn’t see any kind of setting. The editor fonts and other UI elements are still very blurry so it’s not something that looks like it’s already enabled.

Also still very disappointed to see the context menu search issue on macOS doesn’t appear to be working still. (UE-29885). Unreal Editor went through all of 4.12, including the previews with this issue and looks like still no fix for a major usability problem on macOS.

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Thanks for your greate work!
I see the mobile update:Custom Post-Process material support

How can I enable post-process material effects for mobile?Thanks! [MENTION=9] Ellis[/MENTION]