Everything Announced at State of Unreal: Fortnite’s Unreal Editor Revealed and More
At GDC 2023, Epic Games hosted a State of Unreal event to announce the latest updates to the Unreal Engine. We’ve taken a fresh look at the new tools coming soon for creators and how some of these tools are being used in upcoming games like Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2.
In case you missed the live stream, here’s a quick recap of everything announced at the 2023 State of Unreal event.
Unreal Editor Fortnite Lets Players Develop Their Own Games Inside The Popular Battle Royale
Fortnite Unreal Editor (UEFN) is a new add-on available for the PC version of Fortnite. As noted by Epic Games, the application will work alongside Fortnite’s existing creative toolset and will be used to “design, develop, and publish games and experiences directly to Fortnite.” UEFN will also include a new scripting language called “Verse,” which Epic says has “powerful customization capabilities such as device manipulation and chaining, as well as the ability to easily create new game logic.” increase.
Fortnite’s Unreal Editor is available on the Epic Games Store as a public beta.
Ninja Theory uses MetaHuman Animator to push the boundaries of ‘real-time facial animation’
We already knew Ninja Theory was hard at work on Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2. Also, today’s State of Unreal presentation gave us a glimpse into how and how developers are leveraging the new tools provided by his Unreal Engine.it uses metahuman animator Provides realistic facial animation for that character.
MetaHuman Animator allows creators to “recreate any facial performance as a high-fidelity animation” for their MetaHuman characters using an iPhone or a stereo helmet-mounted camera. Epic says the new feature will allow creators to “capture the personality, realism and fidelity of an actor’s performance and transfer all the details and nuances to any of his MetaHumans to bring them to life in Unreal Engine.” We advertise when it becomes available.
Spectacular Demos and Details of New Features Coming to Unreal Engine 5.2
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney and Unreal Engine Head Nick Penwarden shared new information about Unreal Engine 5.2. The company worked with his EV maker Rivian to create an amazing Electric Dreams demo to show off some new things developers can do.
Unreal Engine 5.2 rolls out new features. The most notable is Substrate. This is a new way to give users of Unreal Engine 5 “more control over the look and feel of objects used in real-time applications”, including games.
More interestingly, Epic says that Unreal Engine 5.2 will introduce a Procedural Content Generation Framework (PCG) during State of Unreal presentations. Epic says these new in-editor and runtime PCG tools will allow artists to “define rules and parameters to quickly populate vast, highly detailed spaces with data” faster and more efficiently. claims to be
Everything else in State of Unreal 2023
Epic has announced that it will combine its digital asset stores into one giant marketplace, launching later this year.called fabthis new store offers assets available in the Unreal Engine Marketplace, Quixel Bridge, Artstation Marketplace, and Sketchfab.
The company also announced the “Creator Economy 2.0”. This will launch alongside UEFN to allow those who use Fortnire Island creators to receive more money based on the amount of engagement their published content receives. pledged to return 40% of its net revenue to the pool of creators.
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