Unreal Engine 5.2: five key features for CG artists

Read our run-down of the latest features in UE5, from procedural content and Substrate materials to Chaos Flesh.

Friday, May 12th, 2023

Get free UV packing tool UV-Packer for Unreal Engine

New Unreal Engine 5 edition integrates 3d-io's popular UV packing tool into the game engine.

Monday, February 6th, 2023

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 5.1

New features in the game engine range from updates to Nanite and Lumen to AI-based animation tools.

Tuesday, November 15th, 2022

Tutorial: Cinematic Lighting in Unreal Engine 5

Master cutting-edge real-time lighting techniques with The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass.

Wednesday, October 5th, 2022

Get the free 'mesh to MetaHuman' plugin for Unreal Engine

New Epic Games plugin turns facial scans and sculpts into next-gen MetaHuman characters for use in Maya or UE5.

Friday, June 10th, 2022

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 5.0

Milestone update to the game engine is now officially available, Check out its key features here.

Tuesday, April 5th, 2022

Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Unreal Update 1

Plugin for importing V-Ray scenes into Unreal Engine gets support for render relighting, skeletal meshes.

Monday, January 31st, 2022

ToolChefs ships AtomsUnreal 3.0 in beta

Unreal Engine plugin for the Atoms Crowd simulation system gets support for runtime variation and 'XPU animation'.

Friday, January 28th, 2022

Master cinematic production techniques in Unreal Engine

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create game cinematic's using UE4's Sequencer.

Monday, December 20th, 2021

Download 22 free Megascans 3D trees for Unreal Engine

Get 22 models of black alders in .uasset format with LODs and 8k textures from the new Megascans Trees range.

Sunday, December 19th, 2021

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.27

See our pick of UE4's new features, from more in-camera visual effects tools to multi-GPU lightmap baking.

Monday, August 23rd, 2021

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.26

Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.

Friday, December 4th, 2020

Nuke and Unreal Engine win 2020 tech Emmy Awards

Compositing app and virtual-set-powering game engine honored for their impact on the TV industry.

Monday, October 12th, 2020