Unreal Engine 4 is out!

[FabricPaul]

Crytek actually have a very interesting alembic pipeline that they used on Ryse. http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-tech-of-cryteks-ryse-son-of-rome/

The complex characters and other parts of the game requiring complex simulations, such as collapsing structures, benefited from Crytek’s new GeomCache pipeline. This was written by the studio and compiles from Alembic.

There are more technical details around but I can't recall where I saw them. Sorry. Obviously this is still a caching case, but it's interesting

[Bullit]

V4.3 out!

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unrea ... te-preview

[Nick3d]

Waiting for the Maya plugin which will allows for both body and facial rig I integrated that rig with my custom facial rig made in Facerobot

The lipsync/animation is awful but the main purpouse was to check if the rig was properly read by UE4 and looks like its working properly!



Anyway this engine is great!

[Bullit]

http://kotaku.com/next-gen-lighting-is- ... 1625324795

[McNistor]

can't do that even in non-realtime renderers

[dwigfor]

Rendering
Ray Traced Distance Field Soft Shadows

Screen-space Subsurface Scattering


Unreal Motion Graphics (GUI Designer)
UI Render Transforms
UI Styles
UI Animation
DPI Scaling

Programming
Automatic C++ Hot Reloading
Full Game C++ Hot Reload

Sample Content
Advanced Vehicle Template

Twin Stick Shooter Blueprint Template

Artist Template Map

Animation
Animation Retargeting System



Media Playback and Capture
Video Textures (Media Framework)
OpenEXR Frame Capture (You can now save rich frame data including HDR colors and 16-bit pixel depth into an OpenEXR file. This is really useful for offline compositing work.)


Project Creation
New Project Creation Window
Target Hardware Selection

Learning Resources
New Tutorial System
Tutorials Browser
Tutorials Blueprints

Improved In-Editor Help
Instant Online Help
New Help Buttons
Documentation Actors
Documentation Nodes
New Help Tool-tips

Documentation
Video Tutorial System

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unrea ... view-notes

PS. I'm really liking the tutorials from Tesla Dev - https://www.youtube.com/user/TeslaUE4They're really short, concise and packed with useful info. They remind me of the Pooby of Blueprints.

[Bullit]

This is very interesting, i have to get time to try this.

Does it have a demo?

[dwigfor]

No demo. But you can subscribe for $19 a month, and then unsubscribe and continue using UE4 (without updates...).

I've found it well worth the price. They have tons of stuff in the updates and I've found just the tutorials/starter kits are well worth the $19.

[Bullit]

Thanks. Yes it is a good price.

[dwigfor]

Hey. I just learned that you can install preview version before final is released. In Launcher, next to Engine, click "+ Add Engine". Then you can select 4.5 preview and install!

[dwigfor]

4.5 is released! https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unrea ... 5-released

[Bullit]

Thanks. What will be the package size to show building or house interior, do you have any idea?