Epic Games continues to deliver informative content from GDC 2017 directly to developers and has made three new Unreal Engine 4 tech session videos available for online viewing! Catch up on all the new videos below, along with an update on the Unreal Summit in Seoul, an overview of this week’s UE4 Twitch livestream featuring a preview of VR Editor updates and new Unreal Engine Spotlights including Perception and Panda Studios!
NEW GDC SESSIONS NOW AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING
This week, Epic Games has continued to roll out new Unreal Engine GDC sessions to their official YouTube channel. Presented by members of the Unreal Engine development team, the sessions offer valuable tips and advice for game developers of all backgrounds. Topics include:
Making Physics-Based Mayhem – Senior Developer Relations Technical Artist Alan Noon explores how UE4’s new Immediate Mode Physics enables developers to add more physics-based mayhem to their worlds than ever before! Learn more here.
Interactive 2D Fluid Simulations in Unreal – Senior Technical Writer Sam Dieter utilizes Render Targets alongside UE4’s powerful Blueprint visual scripting system to develop a 2D fluid simulation with realistic ripple propagation. Learn more here.
True Photorealism in Real-Time – Technical Artist Min Oh dives into the world of high quality photorealism made possible with UE4. Learn more here.
UNREAL SUMMIT 2017 COMING TO SEOUL
Epic Games Korea has announced that the 7th annual Unreal Summit will be held at the COEX Convention & Exhibition Center in Seoul, South Korea on April 22. This year’s keynote speakers include Epic Games CEO and Founder Tim Sweeney and Project Lead and Lead Producer of Tekken Katsuhiro Harada. Attendees can expect a range of informative sessions, including talks on the technology behind Robo Recall, the character art pipeline for Paragon, and general Unreal Engine design, art, photo-realistic environment construction, a mobile MOBA sample, mobile rendering, partner talks and more!
TODAY ON TWITCH: VR MODE UPDATES
Today on the UE4 Twitch livestream, Technical Director Mike Fricker, Tools Programmer Lauren Ridge, Tools Programmer Yannick Lange and Principal Tech Artist Ryan Brucks will be discussing the new improvements that are in VR Mode. During the State of Unreal keynote at GDC, Ryan Brucks and Lauren delivered a hands-on demonstrations live on stage, but now the team behind the tech is here to discuss the updates in detail. The full release of VR Mode is not far away, but these changes are available now for you to check out!
Tune in today at 11am PST / 2pm EST / 7pm GMT on twitch.tv/unrealengine to watch the broadcast. More information can be found here.
In case you missed the weekly UE4 training stream featuring a tutorial of replication tools with Senior Engine Programmer Ryan Gerleve, you can catch it here.
UNREAL ENGINE SHOWCASE: PERCEPTION
Darkness plays an integral role in many horror games and is a constant reality for Perception’s lead protagonist, Cassie. Blind, Cassie must rely on hearing and echolocation to help guide her and confront her nightmares for good. The studio behind the game, The Deep End Games, was co-founded by husband and wife team Bill and Amanda Gardner. While the new studio consists of a relatively small development staff, their credits include a handful of critically-acclaimed games including BioShock, BioShock Infinite and Dead Space. For details on the the title, Bill and Amanda participated in an Unreal Engine Showcase to offer insight into the inspiration behind the game and how UE4 was used during development.
UNREAL ENGINE MARKETPLACE SPOTLIGHT: PANDA STUDIOS
Over the past few years, talented content creators have submitted a variety of impressive assets and items to the Unreal Engine Marketplace. Panda Studios is an example of one such development team leading the charge in the creation of premiere and high-quality Marketplace content. As part of the Unreal Engine Showcase, Celeste Peeters, Founder of Panda Studios, was interviewed about her work as a Marketplace creator and the inspiration behind her work.
