Unreal Engine

@SirRifty A lot of us are short! A lot of us are actually several UE reps stacked in a trenchcoat👀

I can’t wait to be the shortest person in the room at Unreal Fest

@jamiecooperatl Well, when you find the time - be sure to show us the game you do make!

Mario 😆 still haven’t made a full game but I’m a full stack SWE

@PixelForgeYT Of course!

@UnrealEngine Does Supertux & Pingus count? lol

What's the game that helped you realize you wanted to make videogames?

We sat down with Epic Engineering Lead Aidan McDu to discuss how the new Custom Lightsaber system was built in UEFN. Using Custom Inventory & Items and Verse, players can create their own lightsaber with unique hilts, crystals, Force abilities, and more. Here's how the team brought customizable lightsabers to Fortnite 🧵:

Explore which tools and features kept their development in motion: epic.gm/dev-interviews…

With the help of Unreal Engine, @TheKongOrange and WiredFly were able to implement heartfelt, handcrafted stop motion and puzzles in their upcoming game, Out of Words.

We’re delighted to see The Pirate Queen: No Safe Waters, the next chapter in Singer Studios’ award-winning Pirate Queen storyworld, selected to premiere in competition at Cannes Film Festival(@FestivaldeCannes) this May. Directed by Emmy-nominated @eloisesinger_ and narrated by @LucyLiu, this cinematic immersive experience created with Unreal Engine expands the extraordinary story of Cheng Shih - the woman who commanded the largest pirate fleet in history - to a global stage. Huge congratulations to Eloise and the brilliant team at @SingerStudiosUK on this fantastic achievement.

Last month, we showcased how Unreal Engine is helping indie devs attach a rocket to their development with the tools and resources they need. One of those devs was Timberline Studio, the creators of the delightful Beastro.

Unreal Engine 5 helped put wind in the sails of the small indie team at @cornfox with tools like Blueprints, MetaSounds and Sequencer⚓ Plot a course for the Unreal Engine blog and check out how UE helped bring the swashbuckling RPG Oceanhorn 3 to iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV: epic.gm/dev-interviews…

▌Watch Silent Whispers‘s Real-Time Gameplay Tech Demo on Youtube! youtu.be/px9OBqvs9w4 ※ This game is developed using Epic Games' UE5. All footage shown in the technical demo was captured in-engine. Development footage does not represent the final quality. #SilentWhispers

This week on Inside Unreal, we're helping streamline your workflows and increase your productivity so you can get to developing more efficiently🫵 Join is May 7 at 2PM ET, where our guest Ángel Flores will take you through 15 practical techniques to help prevent user mistakes, design better pipelines, integrate active feedback and more!: youtube.com/live/b8BwKI_MK…

“For animation, we use the low-level parts of the UE animation system running in parallel on the CPU and then pass the resulting transforms to the GPU in a single floating-point texture. A per-instance value passed to the mesh instances allows each instance to render with the correct animation.”

“The runtime part of this was possible without the need for complex engine changes - just by using the flexibility of the material graph, including some custom HLSL nodes. Having the ability to modify the editor c++ code was crucial for generating the data necessary for this. We transfer skinning information into static mesh UV channels that we aren't using, which then requires modifying the LOD generation code to preserve this data in LODs.”

The creators of TerraTech Legion, @PayloadStudios, turned to the unrivalled flexibility of the Unreal Engine to realise their vision for the ultimate ‘bullet heaven’ experience. The veteran devs opted for instanced skinned meshes to bring a frankly unreasonable amount of robotic destruction to players. Countless robotic foes. Customizable vehicle carnage. No complex engine changes🧵

The small team at @inferstudio and digital human platform @impersonas used Unreal Engine 5, MetaHuman, and AI to blend stylized visuals, real-time production, and high-fidelity performance capture for ‘Daughter of the Inner Stars.’ We spoke to them about how they turned it all into a into a cohesive pipeline for the 50-minute original symphonic orchestral experience: epic.gm/spotlight-daug…

Ahead of their big release last week, we spoke to the team at Hotta Studio about their use of Unreal Engine in the development of @NTE_GL: Neverness to Everness🌃 Revisit our feature on how they attained the stylized, surrealist urban aesthetic and how they've brought their open world to mobile, PC and PS5, here: epic.gm/dev-interviews…

Remember to take a break from your projects to take in some scenery, digital or otherwise! #ScreenshotSaturday is here, so let's take in the scenes from your development endeavors 📷: Kristen Jelly