Unreal Engine 4.8 Preview

hikmayan57 · May 6, 2015, 5:00pm

Awesome guys, Ed and launcher seems stalled while downloading. I am a happy camper.

anonymous_user_71c55af3 · May 6, 2015, 5:06pm

Is there any improvement for supporting low-end mobile devices?

anonymous_user_c237df01 · May 6, 2015, 5:21pm

Multi texture support for paper2d sprites… LOVE YOU GUYS!!

sarfios · May 6, 2015, 5:23pm

Thanks for hard work!

John_Alcatraz · May 6, 2015, 5:38pm

My Project crashes on hitting play :rolleyes: Who would have thought that I will have problems with 4.8

Devero · May 6, 2015, 5:48pm

I didn’t see it reported in list above, but if you create a new FPS template, there are new arms but no GUN. Shooting magic balls =)

Also, still anxious to test that network demo tool somehow.

John_Alcatraz · May 6, 2015, 5:50pm

Another crash while dragging around UI tabs… Even reproducible, can’t get details panel from right to left

anonymous_user_759e5c3a · May 6, 2015, 5:53pm

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I didn’t see it reported in list above, but if you create a new FPS template, there are new arms but no GUN. Shooting magic balls =)

Also, still anxious to test that network demo tool somehow.
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Pretty sure that’s intended now. gun used to be part of forearm mesh and difficult to unattach to swap with gun meshes. Now you can just make a socket and plug in any old gun mesh.

Wanderer_eternal · May 6, 2015, 5:57pm

I’m looking forward to see enhancements in UMG!

Devero · May 6, 2015, 6:04pm

Thanks for answer,

Also I’m not sure if I should continue to post issues here or somewhere else? but…

UMG Animation Editor changes are awesome. However, I started to do some widget animations. I simply keyed a button going left to right across screen which worked fine. I then opened new curve editor feature and manipulated curve successfully. Then, I added a new key to curve which ended up adding correct new key, but it also added additional new curves unrelated to what I was animating. Instead of just adding a single key to “Offsets Left”, it added keys for Top, Right, & Bottom messing up animations completely.

edit: https://answers.unrealengine/questions/223737/48-preview-1-umg-animation-curve-add-keys-bug.html

anonymous_user_759e5c3a · May 6, 2015, 6:05pm

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Thanks for answer,

Also I’m not sure if I should continue to post issues here or somewhere else? but…

UMG Animation Editor changes are awesome. However, I started to do some widget animations. I simply record a button going left to right across screen which was worked fine. I then opened new curve editor feature and manipulated curve successfully. Then, I added a new key to curve which ended up adding correct new key, but it also added a additional new curves unrelated to what I was animating. Instead of just adding a single key to “Offsets Left”, it added keys for Top, Right, & Bottom messing up animations completely.
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For something that complicated, I would suggest entering a bug report at answers.unrealengine so I can get a tech to investigate it. Anyone entering bug reports can link them to me and I’ll assign a tech to them immediately. Additionally we have several eyes watching new reports coming in for 4.8 on , so it might be assigned before I get to it even.

Same goes for anyone with a crash. We have several known crashes that will be fixed by release, but we need to check callstacks/log files to verify nothing new has appeared.

BulleTime · May 6, 2015, 6:06pm

Nice. I what about spline component update? would this also be within release?

Tim_Hobson · May 6, 2015, 6:09pm

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Another crash while dragging around UI tabs… Even reproducible, can’t get details panel from right to left
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Hi ,

I was able to reproduce this. I’ll update here once I get a ticket in with this.

Thank you!

EDIT:

Reported with UE-15075

John_Alcatraz · May 6, 2015, 6:09pm

First one of my 4.8 bug reportsanswers.unrealengine/questions/223729/48p1-parentchild-bug-crashes-engine.html

Sitrec · May 6, 2015, 6:09pm

Can’t express how excited i am about 4.8. I’ve been dreaming of a proper way of placing foliage since UDK days. :o

EoinOBroin · May 6, 2015, 6:12pm

Awesome, downloading now! Finally some improved DOF/Motion Blur- really excited about these + grass foliage optimisations!

a_najafi · May 6, 2015, 6:16pm

thanks a lot will be checking it out

I wish there was a list of stuff that has been fixed and added to blueprints

for example do struct arrays finaly support copying and some other stuff i reported here: ://answers.unrealengine/questions/213918/structs-and-enumerations-broken-blueprint.html

also any update on bluetilities?

anonymous_user_759e5c3a · May 6, 2015, 6:23pm

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thanks a lot will be checking it out

I wish there was a list of stuff that has been fixed and added to blueprints

for example do struct arrays finaly support copying and some other stuff i reported here: ://answers.unrealengine/questions/213918/structs-and-enumerations-broken-blueprint.html

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Alright, I’ve got looking into what happened with that.

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First one of my 4.8 bug reportsanswers.unrealengine/questions/223729/48p1-parentchild-bug-crashes-engine.html
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I’ve got looking into it right now.

anonymous_user_e281dc471 · May 6, 2015, 6:28pm

I’m very touched. It’s awesome! Open World support and Full dynamic global illumination. Thank you Epic! <3 <3 <3

EPIC EDIT: Note, we’ve removed mention of global illumination from these notes because we’ve determined it’s only a minor feature prototype at this phase.

anonymous_user_e1e14d82 · May 6, 2015, 6:29pm

Wasn’t 4.8 supposed to contain support for Android OBB downloading and splash screen? Did it make it? Does it even publish for Android at all?