An hour long Unreal Engine intro course:

https://youtu.be/EPkAJjyu0_M
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People are saying that the game is indeed fun, but techical condition sux arse. A lot of people can't make it run past main menu (or intro sequence).

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See no evil!

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When Epic Games merged UE Marketplace with Sketchfab and ArtStation Marketplace, they kinda forgot to make it available inside the launcher. And finally it's there!

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Fab in Launcher Overview | Inside Unreal

https://www.youtube.com/live/n0cSBMZc8qk
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Wow, someone actually compared Nanite vs LODs in Unreal Engine 5.6:

LODs are faster, less noisy, and spend much less memory.

The case is even more noticeable if you will try to compare Virtual Shadow Maps and the basic Shadow Maps. VSM has artifacts and consume much more resources.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP-dBjoc0vQ
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This Dude Went to Game Design School So You Don’t Have To

I felt pain when he passed 3D modelling regardless of the shit he created...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K2gQmv1xWA
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Comments section!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji0Hfiswcjo
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The WHAT?

Unity and Epic Games announced a partnership plan to make Fortnite creative mode stronger. It will support games made with Unity and aimed at lower-powered systems.

For Epic, it will help to gain wider audience and compete against Roblox. All the people who are not able to run heavy games will now be able to try more simple and common experiences from the same launcher.

For Unity, it will provide an additional market and going to help them to earn far beyond the subscription plan.

And Unity will bring their In-App Purchases SDK to Unreal Engine developers too. Which will make it easier to use cross-platform stores and accounts.

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It's not yet a widely known thing, but one fella is making forks of Unreal Engine 4 and 5 to move away from Nanites and Lumen, but also from Chaos Physics.

Instead he brings GI library from NVIDIA (which they open sourced time ago), tessellation, PhysX (which was also open sourced), and so on.

Which unfortunately means, he works with 5.0 as the primary source and backport some features to 4.x. For example, nice animation and modelling tools are unavailable.

To use the fork you have to be in Epic Games organization on GitHub (due to how Unreal Engine is distributed). Yes, even forks are tracked by Epic.

https://x.com/theredpix

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Remember Unreal Tournament? You can kinda play it for free in Unreal Engine 5.7 now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQaLti_E_KY
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In most cases you better avoid making hand-painted weights for wind distribution of every single plant, dammit!

You can simply use object-space to apply gradients from the origin based on height and distance from the stem. And apply the angle of the stem. Or at worst a mask that will apply more force to leaves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8WL1Z1W4Gs
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ARK: Lost Colony is seemingly the worst optimized game so far (yes, Unreal Engine 5):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R89rS3tuuRU
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In comparison to all the UE5 issues, here's the peak Unreal Engine 3 game.

Crazy enough, AK has been delisted on PC release due to performance issues and bugs, then fixed and re-released to become nearly unbeatable in visual fidelity.

Even now, materials and textures look better than 90% of modern games!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YicXHcJQ5Y
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Bought Dead Island 2 since it is on huge sale. Big mistake and yes, I requested the refund. The visuals are blurry as hell regardless of the settings. Several steps of rendering are blurring every frame in a variety of ways. So you can't fully fix it even with engine commands.

The worst feeling with Unreal Engine game... be aware and do not buy even on sale.

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And despite all that, you can still make optimized and visually stunning stuff with Unreal Engine:

https://youtu.be/5bShikCSW-I
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Good news, everyone!

Apparently, Arc Raiders fans discovered a new performance issue in Unreal Engine: if your mouse is modern, it can run at 500, 1000, or even 2000Hz (polling rate). The input system of Unreal Engine (and some other apps and engines) go nuts if your mouse is not 250Hz. At 500+ it does some odd compensation and it makes the input inconsistent.

This adds up to extra computation of camera culling, LOD, and lighting that the engine must show and hide when you look around. And it feels as stuttering.

For some mice the setting can be found in apps, for some it's literally a button underneath. You need faster rate for competitive multiplayer, but almost no engine can really work with 2000Hz, for example. Unreal sets no limiter on the input and every USB command make it stop to receive it and review. Now imagine it has 2000 of them when the CPU is already overloaded.

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Universal Animation Library 2 - for Godot Unreal and Unity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hd5nH122OE
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