Unreal Engine developers have many reasons to be excited this week with a preview of Unreal Engine 4.14, recognition and prizes for Epic MegaJam winners, the free release of Simplygon for UE4 developers, and scary good deals featured in the Unreal Engine Marketplace Halloween sale.
UNREAL ENGINE 4.14 PREVIEW 1 NOW AVAILABLE
Preview 1 of Unreal Engine 4.14 is now available. Developers can access major new features, such as the new UE4 forward renderer for virtual reality – the same new renderer Epic is using for Robo Recall, the studio’s upcoming game for Oculus Touch on Rift. Unreal Engine 4.14 also introduces new character and animation pipeline upgrades, NVIDIA Ansel support, a live GPU profiler, and much more. For more details, visit the forums.
TODAY ON TWITCH: EPIC MEGAJAM WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
Today on Twitch, Unreal Engine developer and friend of Epic Michael Allar will be joining Community Manager Alexander Paschall announce and play the winning games of the Epic MegaJam! More than 400 developers participated this year, cranking out over 180 games. All of the projects can be downloaded at the Epic MegaJam forum thread
Tune in today, beginning at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7pm BST at twitch.tv/unrealengine. Questions for the team can be submitted here.
In case you missed this week’s live training stream and part 4 of Epic’s series on developing a fighting game with the State Machine Plugin, you can watch it here.
SIMPLYGON NOW AVAILABLE FOR FREE TO DEVELOPERS
Simplygon is now available to developers as a free up-front license with a small royalty upon shipping a successful game. Simplygon has been licensed by many top gaming studios to automatically optimize 3D content with little to no manual labor. UE4 titles utilizing Simplygon include EVEREST VR, IKEA Kitchen Planner and Epic’s own Paragon and Robo Recall. Learn more on the Unreal Engine blog.
HAUNTINGLY GOOD DEALS DURING THE UNREAL ENGINE MARKETPLACE HALLOWEEN SALE
The Unreal Engine Marketplace Halloween sale has officially begun and prices have been slashed on dozens of the most spooky asset packs on the Marketplace. To see the full list of items in the promotion, visit the Unreal Engine blog.
