Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.20
Artists get new Niagara modular VFX editor, new options for shading human skin, plus cinematic DoF.
Saturday, July 21st, 2018
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Epic to give UE4 Marketplace creators 88% of product sales
Up from 70% before - and applied retroactively to every sale made since the store opened in 2014.
Thursday, July 12th, 2018
Master VFX workflows for games in Unreal Engine
Riot Games artist Jeremy Griffith's detailed Gnomon tutorial provides over nine hours of UE4 training.
Friday, June 22nd, 2018
Download Chico Spans' three game-ready CG tree models
Get Unreal Engine-ready tree assets, with SpeedTree project files or the FBX models and textures.
Sunday, May 27th, 2018
Vicon ships Shōgun 1.2
Now available: optical mocap firm's utility software gets SDI support, custom skeleton solving, plus live link to stream data directly to UE4.
Thursday, April 26th, 2018
Foundry ships Modo 12.0
First release in the Modo 12 Series overhauls the Mesh Paint tool, and adds a neat new Surface Strips system to MeshFusion modelling.
Thursday, March 29th, 2018
Epic Games previews new features in Unreal Engine 4.20
Update to add new level streaming, instancing and LOD features, plus replay system created for Fortnite.
Saturday, March 24th, 2018
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.19
Update adds live link plugins for Maya and MotionBuilder, material layers, physical units for lights.
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
Foundry ships Modo Indie 11
Long-awaited update adds the Unreal Engine live bridge and tools from the Modo 11 Series itself, glTF 2.0 support. Free to current users.
Tuesday, March 6th, 2018
IKinema releases Orion 1.0
Neat new system based around the HTC Vive makes it possible to create a complete sub-$1,500 full-body mocap setup for VR work.
Monday, February 26th, 2018
Download Epic Games' free Soul environment asset packs
Get 592 free building, rock and tree models from Epic's 2014 UE4 demo, all optimised for mobile.
Sunday, January 28th, 2018
Motiva unveils Unknit for Unreal Engine and 3ds Max
Watch a demo of this promising UV unwrapping tool from the devs behind UE4's Datasmith toolset.
Thursday, January 4th, 2018
Sign up for free masterclases on Unreal Engine for VFX
Discover best practices for pipeline development and rendering in UE4 at Gnomon on 20 January 2018. Watch free online.
Tuesday, December 26th, 2017