Unreal Engine 4.8 is here!
Our latest update gives you all the tools you need to build expansive open worlds, VR experiences, and anything else you have in mind! Create huge, photoreal worlds with major optimizations to landscape, grass, and foliage rendering, or build new realities anywhere you like thanks to our multiplatform VR support. These and tons of other tool and performance enhancements await you in Unreal Engine 4.8, our biggest release to date!
This release includes 189 great changes that were submitted from Unreal Engine’s amazing community of developers. Check out the full list of contributors on the Unreal Engine 4.8 Release Notes page!
Feature Highlights
Grass Rendering and Procedural Foliage Systems
We’ve optimized our Grass Systems for use with large open worlds. Use it to produce huge amounts of grass and ground cover with temporal LOD cross-fading. We’re also releasing an experimental preview of the procedural foliage system we used to paint foliage across our GDC 2015 Kite Demo.
Post Processing Enhancements and Tools
Major increase in accuracy of our Motion Blur, including morph target animations that can now generate motion blur. We’ve also updated our depth of field to be more physically-based, as well as added a new Tone Mapper to achieve more filmic look.
Multiplatform VR Support
Support for all the latest VR hardware including Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, Steam VR, Leap Motion, and Sony Project Morpheus.
Network Replays
“Scrubbable” network replays with rewind support and live time scrubbing.
Asset Size Mapper
Visualize the memory footprint of game assets in an interactive tree map UI.
Finnaly! Thank You!
