Unreal Engine 4 (free!)

New Engine feature is sick: Multi-User Sessions
Plugin is in beta

Allows multiple users to edit a level together in real time, from remote locations if desired.

Prior to this, editing a "level" in UE4 was locked to single user at a time, this tech will allow faster development for games and also for UE4 video production. Pretty damn amazing imo.

Short video of the plugin starts here, after the ~2mins the rest of the video is a live stream on setting it up & using it.

LachiusTZ said:

Ravishing

There any way to bootleg some of the prior monthly free content?

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Probably but I don't have any source. I saw an image posted by tyen or was it Tuco ? somewhere that had downloads to Unreal Marketplace content.

Edit: Found it: Game development career thread:

This is absolutely nuts:

The Mandalorian is using UE4 for pre-vis:

Flobee said:

So I was dicking around with Unity for a while but got a bit frustrated with their chainging multiplayer code. Since it was in a state of flux I had to wait to do the stuff I wanted to do, so I took a break. Looking to maybe start to learn UE4/C++. Anyone know of any good tutorials to follow? I was using Udemy for Unity and I see there are some well reviewed courses for UE4 that I'll likely start with. I know some of yall are actively using the engine so thought I'd ask for advice.

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I've posted about tutorials and stuff above.. only thing I'll add is that multiplayer in ue4 is extremely time consuming and tricky. I never played with unity to compare, but in ue4 you can really turn your brain into knots.

The best resource for multiplayer is this document:

Flobee said:

Thanks! I ended up following the below from the UE youtube channel

Spoiler: Video

Gets you basic Steam integration with working LAN capability. Basically just a structure that creates a game lobby, allows players to join and select a character, game settings, and chat then launch a map. I'd never used Blueprint so it was a good introduction for me. I'm going to check your link as I'm now looking to expand and customize. Then I'll need to learn to actually make it a game.

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I started with that same tutorial, I might still be using some of the code. I changed a lot and implemented a GameSparks login system, I figure I'd start with a platform agnostic system then can incorporate steam/epic/etc later.

Re: the compendium I linked, slide 8 is really the key in understanding how things need to flow.

Also im not sure how widespread the networking issues in 4.24 are but since upgrading the engine to the recent version+hotfix (4.24.1, source built), some of my RPC events stopped firing unless I make them "reliable".

Not an ideal situation but it's forcing me to go back and implement more checks and procedures to counter latency.

I found 1 other guy describing the same issue on the official forums:

His response:

Just keep in mind if you're trying to do RPC calls and they don't seem to be triggering.

4.22 was a solid build but I really wanted to try out the new map tools in 4.24.
Only problem is the map tools seem to have issues with World Composition lol.

Pretty incredible Hair implementation in the most recent UE4 version:


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Using Blender, I have no idea what settings to use to export the Groom assets to play around with this.. but it's not optimized anyway so I'll just wait. Looks very cool though.

So UE5 was announced.



But what I think is important is that you will be able to migrate to it from UE4

We’re designing for forward compatibility, so you can get started with next-gen development now in UE4 and move your projects to UE5 when ready.

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Also Epic is changing their Revenue policy to NOT collect any royalties on the first $1 million you make from your game, so now small-time pubs are basically using the engine for free.

xzi said:

Dude, everything they've showcased is nothing short of witchcraft. I don't know how in the fuck they're going to pull this off but I'm genuinely impressed.

That not collecting on $1 Million is insane too. After them buying a bunch of exclusives I kind of stopped participating in anything EPIC but maybe it's time to dust off ye olde unreal engine, cause holy shit

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I'd really like to know how they accomplished the Nanite tech. Right now everything in UE4 utilizes proxy meshes with lower polycounts to help keep framerate high, I can't imagine billions of triangles in the scene like that. However, UE4 CAN handle in the low millions pretty easily already.

Whole video is worth the watch but I queued it up to a video they show which I'm guessing has a lot to do with the new UE5


EDIT or maybe not since the pS5 has AMD but I still think it is using a technology very similar.