Unreal Engine 4.16 Preview

[Raildex]

I gave up hope for Volumetric Lighting in UE.
You guys never fail to amaze me. Thank you guys

[iniside]

@Alcatraz;699746

I find it quite hard to get good results with the volumetric fog outdoors. It looks nice, but I kinda hoped it could replace screen space light shafts. Its basically impossible though to get nice light shafts without having everything be really fogged.

Everything looks quite washed out when you have the volumetric fog enabled. If you want to get any relevant light shafts, you need to increase the fog density so much that you won’t see any sky any more, the sky will just be a uniform white (the fog color), like you see in the gif above.

Something like this (screen space lightshaft) is not possible with the new volumetric fog it seems:

http://puu.sh/vwfiQ/089e01f204.png

I guess it would have been too nice if it would have looked as good as the screen space light shafts, without the limitation of being a screen space effect that disappears when looking in a different direction.

It’s doable using Nvidia volumetric lighting.
I agree though. Build in solution needs to be less physically accurate and more controllable.

[RRe36]

Any news on these ones?

Sequencer: Skeletal Animation Track Broken?

Render a Stereoscopic Sequencer Movie

[Tefel]

Great update as always!
Thanks Epic!

[BinarySword (Benjamin D. Smith)]

@hippowombat;699647

Distance field improvements and volumetric fog, I can’t express my gratitude in words, you guys are too good to me. <3 <3 <3

I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting for proper volumetric fog support to come to UE4 and couldn’t be happier

@ioFlow Studios;699834

Someone made a great suggestion for the particle volume fog on discord, how hard would it be for you guys to add the ability for particles to subtract from fog density as well as add?

NOW YOU’RE THINKING WITH PORTALS!

But seriously what a brilliant suggestion as think of the endless possibilities that open up if such a feature were to be made available

[Maximum-Dev]

Unresolved issues in 4.16 Preview targeted to be fixed by the 4.16 Release

Couldn’t find this bug in there. Unreal Engine Issues and Bug Tracker (UE-43093) PLEASE!
Also this, if you can get it in 4.16 release: SSS is affected by Skylight. Shouldn't be - World Creation - Epic Developer Community Forums As all foliage right now is looking wrong in shadows.

[oglu]

What happened to the USD plug from Pixar.?

[Deathrey (DeathreyCG)]

Vertex Interpolator nodes

Mmm, nice!

[visualnotte]

where is tools Cloth Paint?

[xN31]

Great preview! Where can I find documentation about the new audio mixer and the Steam Audio SDK integration?

[SE_JonF]

So glad to see volumetric fog included now! =)

[Dannington]

Any new forward renderer improvements?

[intoxicat3]

@cyaoeu;699729

Did control rig sequences (from the GDC demo) not end up in 4.16?
Edit: It was a plugin. I couldn’t get it to work with my character though which is basically a mannequinn rig.

I was able to make it work with skel mesh from Engine content.

http://i.imgur.com/TY8RuK0m.png

You need to:

• Add control rig component to your skel mesh,
• In control rig select Base Human,
• Then in Modes select Animation,
• Then Select Skel Mesh you want to control,
• Create new Sequence,

And you should get what I have on the screen.

Hope we can export data from sequence to Animation Sequence and be able to run it using AnimBlueprint. This would be super great for all people prototyping new features depending on poses/animations.

Edit: Yes you can export! Thanks Epic!

[SRombauts]

For everyone using the Git Source Control Provider Plugin (and for those asking if I am still working on it;) here are the Pull Requests merged in this Preview version :

• Fix Submit to Source Control Window for Git plugin : use CanCheckIn() to filter out unmodified assets files #3136](github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/3136)
• Git plugin: fix revision number for blueprint diff menu #3278](github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/3278)
• Git Plugin: use asynchronous “MarkForAdd” and “CheckIn” operations for the initial commit #3108](github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/3108)
• Git plugin: fix git autodetection and add error message #3224](github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/3224)
• UE-34539: (Bugfix) Allow binary files in git stored via git-fat, git-lfs, etc to be diffed (take 2) #3253](github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/3253)
• Git plugin: fix update status on directories broken since UE4.12 #3292](github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/3292)
• Git plugin: fix update status on directories hotfix (still) slightly broken in master (UE4.16) #3372](github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/3372)
• Git Plugin: fix RunDumpToFile() to check git ReturnCode #3327](github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/3327)
• Git Plugin: hotfix for regression off Visual Diffs with older version of Git in master (UE4.16) #3373](github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/3373)
• Git Plugin: trivial hotfix for the new UE4.16 warning about LoadModule() (UE4.16) #3455](github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/3455)

Enjoy!

[Hevedy]

What happened with the volumetric lights are here or ?

From what I see from the volumetric fog point isn’t the expected quality so ?

Is not new the games uses “Volumetric Effects” for lights usually in indoors etc, so don’t see the point I have to put Fog in the scene to have volumetric effects…

[visualnotte]

In this version the “Cloth Paint” is there?

[Leemon_89]

Great news for GearVR developers! Thanks guys! However will OpenGL ES3.1 still be available only in source version of the engine?

[ULLS]

Great stuff team!! I’m going to try and port my music generator project I made using the master branch to this preview build as the engine crashes when I add a create dynamic material instance in BP and feed a material instance to the input and it’ll be easier to convert to stable builds in the future…

The volumetric fog is awesome, looks incredible on a sunrise/sunset:

UE4 Random Music Generator (WIP) - Calm Style Demo

You guys never cease to amaze me!!

[TomSarkanen]

@mzprox;699832

I hoped the animation tools (edit animations inside unreal) would be added in 4.16… Is it 4.17 then?

@cyaoeu;699729

Did control rig sequences (from the GDC demo) not end up in 4.16?
Edit: It was a plugin. I couldn’t get it to work with my character though which is basically a mannequinn rig.

The new in-editor animation tools are in this release. We aren’t calling them out as they are currently in a very experimental state, but all the features that we were aiming for (including baking to anim sequences) are included. We would love to hear your feedback!

As to binding to your mesh, once the plugin is enabled, you will need to open the new “Control Rig” tab in the skeletal mesh editor to set up bindings to your mesh.

[SteveElbows]

The Volumetric fog stuff was certainly worth the wait and now I can embrace UE4 properly. I’ve been playing with it for a few weeks using the github version but now I have a lot to learn about the rest of UE4 in order to get results. But even as a relative UE4 novice it’s all rather impressive, well done!