The GDC annual State of Unreal simply ended, with Epic Video games summarizing the largest new options coming to Unreal Engine, UEFN and extra. First discuss Unreal Engine 5.4, which is accessible in preview obtain proper now from the Epic Launcher.
Skydance’s presentation featured Nanite Tessellation and volumetric rendering, that are delivery in Unreal Engine 5.4 Preview 1, out there now.
Animation is a significant focus of 5.4, which introduces Movement Matching, a easy and environment friendly solution to animate characters in video games. Later this yr we may even launch a free pattern studying undertaking that features over 500 AAA animations created from high-end movement seize knowledge with the locomotion and traversal dataset used within the keynote demo. As well as, due to in depth battletesting in LEGO Fortnite growth, now you can totally animate your sport utilizing Management Rig and Sequencer with no spherical tripping between purposes.
There have been a number of bulletins for UEFN creators as nicely:
It’s been a yr since we launched Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) and Creator Financial system 2.0 at GDC 2023. Since then, creators have revealed greater than 80,000 UEFN islands, and Epic has paid greater than $320M to creators within the first yr of engagement payouts.
We launched and previewed a number of new options on the UEFN 2024 roadmap, and introduced that creators utilizing UEFN can now simply create and animate MetaHumans as non-playable characters (NPCs) for his or her Fortnite islands utilizing MetaHuman Creator and MetaHuman Animator.
We’re additionally making extra gaming IP from Epic broadly out there for Fortnite creators. Creators can now use new inventive units and race observe templates to construct Rocket Racing islands in Fortnite, together with a Rocket Racing Car Spawner system for spawning autos and two brand-new templates for making their very own tracks. Moreover, in Could we’ll be including Fall Guys property, animations and Fall Guys beans to UEFN so creators can construct their very own frantic impediment programs, all inside Fortnite.
We wish to discover extra alternatives for creators to not solely use Epic’s IP but additionally a variety of licensed IP. We’re excited that the LEGO Group is the primary companion to deliver its model property to Fortnite creators.
Additionally they introduced that the Epic Recreation Retailer can be coming to cell, particularly Android and iOS by the tip of the yr:
Lastly, we shared extra about our plans to deliver the Epic Video games Retailer (EGS) to cell later this yr. EGS will grow to be the primary ever game-focused, multi-platform retailer, and can work throughout Android, iOS, PC, and macOS. Cell builders will profit from the identical truthful phrases on EGS for PC: 88/12 income share and the identical packages you may leverage to maintain 100% of income utilizing your individual funds for in-app purchases, Epic First Run, and Now On Epic. Extra on this quickly!
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All the large information from the State of Unreal at GDC ‘24 – Unreal Engine
We have now summarized the whole hour+ lengthy occasion into an below 10 minute video focusing completely on bulletins of curiosity to sport builders.
