Michael pichon

Merging Meshes to reduce draw calls in Unreal Engine manicmachinegames.com/blog/2019/8/5/… #UE4 #UE4FR #UE4Tips #UE4Study #UE5 #UnrealEngine #Gamedev #Indiedev #Indiegamedev

📣 Communiqué Le Syndicat National du Jeu Vidéo, qui fédère les entreprises du jeu vidéo en France, a pris acte du lien fait entre violence et jeux vidéo par le président de la République Emmanuel Macron, qui appelle à une étude en vue d’éventuelles interdictions.

DÉCLARATION - SYNDICAT DES ÉDITEURS DE LOGICIELS DE LOISIRS

Epic has released the free Niagara Examples Pack for Unreal Engine 5.7 that features more than 50 real-time VFX. Download: 80.lv/articles/epic-…

Happy Holidays! Give yourself an extra little gift today and grab one of this year's free project samples🎁 Get animated with the A-COM Animation Sample, kick off your Sports Motion Broadcast Design learning or set sail on game development with the Parrot Game Sample🧵

Meet the new ComfyUI-Manager! ComfyUI-Manager is now officially integrated into ComfyUI. New Manager UI highlights: - Faster discovery + smoother extension management - Preview nodes inside a pack before installing - Install all missing nodes in one click - Better dependency conflict detection - Improved security scanning (malicious nodes flagged/banned) - Better search (pack + node-level) - Full localization

Just released a free Unreal Engine editor tool: Texture Channel Packer. For solo devs who know texture packing but hate the manual time sink—simple drag-and-drop, packs grayscale into clean ORM maps. Zero learning curve. Download: fab.com/listings/7b231… Save those hours. Finish your game sooner. Release it—let's play something great. Open source on GitHub: github.com/EmbarrassingMo… #UnrealEngine

My coworker @ZhiKangShao just published the Level Streaming Hitching Guide, a huge resource on the things you can do to prevent hitches during level streaming. Read it here: dev.epicgames.com/community/lear…

Can't wait to play with this... Comfy X Blender timmmeeeeeeeeeee 🤯🤯🤯🤯

True. Dome projection for HDRIs is such a step-up, compared to the default sphere - you won't believe how good it can look. #b3d

Would be great to have them back because now it will confuse new users following previous version tutorials. Even the official Unreal tutorials use the starter content making them invalid.

Introducing the Mistral 3 family of models: Frontier intelligence at all sizes. Apache 2.0. Details in 🧵

Early Pre-Pro Steps to Project: ▪️Get idea ▪️Collect reference ▪️Go through all photo reference ▪️Mind begins to arrange all data ▪️Make lists of all assets to create ▪️Create top down-layout ▪️Start prototyping w/basic meshes to create initial layout Off to a good start

We are officially taking Hunyuan 3D Engine global! 🌎 Responding to community demand and building on open-source acclaim, Hunyuan 3D capabilities are now launching globally to empower all creators and enterprises! This next-gen AI platform cuts commercial-grade 3D asset production from days or weeks down to minutes. 🎨Multimodal Input: Instantly generates from Text-to-3D, Image-to-3D (multi-view support), or Sketch-to-3D. 💡Pro-Ready Quality: Achieves industry SOTA with our new 3D-DiT hierarchical carving model, delivering a 3x boost in modeling precision (up to 15363 ultra-HD resolution). Seamless OBJ/GLB integration with Unreal, Unity, and Blender is standard. ☁️Commercial Access: The Hunyuan 3D model API is now available on Tencent Cloud International, enabling global enterprises to integrate advanced 3D generation into workflows for game development, e-commerce, advertising, 3D printing, and more. New creators get 20 free generations daily on the platform. Enterprise API users receive 200 free credits upon registration. Start building now! 👉 Try the creation engine: 3d.hunyuanglobal.com 🔗 Access the API: tencentcloud.com/products/ai3d

FLUX.2 is here - our most capable image generation & editing model to date. Multi-reference. 4MP. Production-ready. Open weights. Into the new.

Holy sh*t. We quietly put an enterprise form on our site, and in 2 weeks, 130 inbound requests came in. Average team size is 250. Zero announcements. Zero marketing. To everyone who said open-source can’t make money: you’re out of your mind. Give us 2 years and watch us take this entire market.

Just announced at Unity’s Unite 2025 show in Barcelona: Unity has built an amazing new networking protocol enabling Unity games to come into Fortnite next year. This will enable an incredible variety of games to reach a new audience in new ways!

Unity 🤝 Epic Games Epic and @Unity are working together to bring Unity games to Fortnite, and to bring Unity’s cross-platform commerce platform to Unreal Engine. Together with Unity, we’re working to advance the open, interoperable future of video games. Check out more of the details here: epic.gm/unity-epic-gam…

Something new just sprouted from Quixel. 🌱 Introducing Megaplants… photorealistic, fully procedural vegetation built for Unreal Engine 5.7. They’re free to explore on Fab! epic.gm/quixel-megapla…

I do not personally know Ben, but he knows EVERYTHING and is a great boost for any company that snatches him up!

The Unreal Engine version of the Epic Developer Assistant is now accessible on the Epic Developer Community. The Epic Developer Assistant, which currently supports up to UE 5.6, provides guidance on using Unreal Engine and helps generate C++ Code. Check it out here: dev.epicgames.com/community/assi…