Hello guys, welcome back to another video. Yesterday, Epic Games just revealed
everything new coming to Unreal Engine 5. 4 at GDC during the State of Unreal. They also released the preview
version of Unreal Engine 5. 4, as well as the public roadmap. And so in this video, we will be covering
everything new coming to Unreal Engine 5. 4. There's tons of new features coming in 5. 4. Things like Nanite Runtime Tessellation,
which allows for fully dynamic, So, And realistic detailed environments,
which was not possible before. We have things like support for motion
warping, which is a new game character animation system, and it includes
a free template with over 500 free triple a motion capture animations. We have a brand new simplified retargeting
system that has native support. for most industry standard skeleton
types, including Mixamo, MotionBuilder, Extents, MoveAI, and much more. We have things like a new modular Control
Rig Builder that allows you to quickly create a control rig for your character
with just a couple of clicks, as well as some new rendering performance options. Updates that allow for 30 percent
faster shader compilation time. There are loads of PCG updates,
including new nodes and a new PCG biome core plugin allow for different
biomes in an open world map. There are many more updates to things like
motion graphics, including a complete. Motion graphics mode and viewport inside
of Unreal Engine and so much more. Now, a quick side note, if you guys
are interested in creating games inside of Unreal Engine five, I'm actually
working on a remaster of my Survival game course inside of Un Religion 5.4. I'm gonna be remastering the entire
course and adding new things like. Controller support, things like first
person and third person mode, and also a lot of new features like common
UI and enhanced input, and the game will even have support for playing in
single player or multiplayer, whether that be a listen or dedicated server. So basically this remaster will
be free if you already have purchase my survival game course. So if you haven't picked up the
course yet, I highly recommend you do as I will be releasing the 5. 4 remaster sometime after the
official release of unreligion 5. 4 and with all that out of the way,
let's get right into the video. So the first of many big
announcements coming to unreligion 5. 4 are the new additions to the
animation side of the engine. First, we have motion matching, which
is production ready and unreligion 5. 4. Motion matching is a powerful way
to animate characters in games. Instead of using things like handcrafted
state machines, which are what most games currently use, motion matching
uses a database of animations and selects the best animation to play
based on the current pose of the character and uses things like motion. Pose warping algorithms
to fill in the gaps. You can use it for very smooth
locomotion like what you see here and it scales very well with any type
of data set that you feed into it. Motion warping can additionally be used
for interaction with world objects. So as you see here, it can be
used for things like climbing. Jumping, falling, and it creates very
smooth and believable movement that you wouldn't otherwise be able to achieve
with just simple animation states. Along with the motion warping
system coming in Unreal Engine 5. 4, Epic is releasing a free sample
project That includes over 500 plus AAA animations created from motion captured
data in this motion warping template. And it'll also be compatible
with the metahuman rig. So this is a completely free template
that you can use for your games to get started using motion warping. Next up, there are many new updates
coming to animation and Unreal Engine 5. 4. We have new animation authoring
tools like these new movement gizmos, constraints, and much more. But more importantly, They are introducing
a brand new modular control rig framework that will help you create a control rig
for any type of character in engine. It looks as simple as dragging and
dropping presetted control rigs and watching the magic happen. And from the GDC talk, it sounds like
they are really pushing forward in engine animation as the forefront. For creating animations, and
they are really trying to make it so you don't have to use any
external DCC program to animate. All you need basically is Unreal Engine. Another huge update coming to the
animation side of Unreal Engine 5. 4, which wasn't really announced or
revealed anywhere other than the roadmap, is a new animation retargeting system. Yes, retargeting is getting a
complete rehaul in Unreal Engine 5. 4, and it is absolutely incredible. With the new retargeting
system in Unreal Engine 5. 4, there is now native support
for retargeting with the most common skeleton types, so this
includes Mixamo, MotionBuilder, Xsense, MoveAI, and much more. So all you have to do now is Import the
skeleton, all of the animations that you want to retarget, select your target
animation, in my case I want the UE4 or UE5 mannequin, and click retarget. It's all built in supported, so you don't
have to mess around with creating things like the complex IK rigs or retargeters,
it basically just works out of the box because they added that native support for
most of Industry standard skeleton types. So this is just a huge quality of
life update because now you can very quickly get animations retargeted
for your custom character without having to spend half an hour or more
creating the IK rigs and messing around with the IK retargeter system. Now, as for rendering, there are some
huge updates coming to Unreal Engine 5. 4 on the rendering side of the engine. Including some big
performance improvements. The first big new future is
nanite tessellation, which is a newer experimental feature
introduced in Unreal Engine 5. 4, which allows nanite meshes to
be modified at runtime using a displacement map or procedural material. They showcase this on their
new Marvel game that uses this nanite displacement technology. And as you can see here, they
use this displacement to layer on detail on the simple road. So they add things like brick, snow
and mud and the nanite tessellation also has a runtime support. So you can add things like
tire tracks and even footprints on the ground during runtime. And as you can see here, the Nanite
view just shows you how extremely detailed and dense the geometry is. To allow for ultra realistic environments,
which was not feasible before. Another future of Nanite tessellation
that they showcase is adding things like snow to all the props in the world. So you can see that the Nanite
displacement allows for actual geometry on top of these meshes, which adds this
realistic snow buildup to the environment. To any of the actors in the world. Another new feature that was showcased
was this realistic smoke volume. This is a heterogeneous volume,
and this was a new experimental feature that was actually
introduced in the engine back in 5. 3, which allows for support of creating
these volumes and external DCC programs. And importing them into the engine. Now, a new feature in 5. 4 is that these heterogeneous volumes or
the smoke itself can cast its own shadow. So you can change the lighting in real
time and see the smoke dynamically react to the lighting in the scene. Now, if you didn't already have a big
reason to update to Unreal Engine 5. 4, there are massive performance updates
coming to the rendering system in 5. 4, including faster lumen,
shadows, and ray tracing. In Unreal Engine 5. 4, they made major refactoring. To the rendering systems in the
engine and they tested the city sample demo and compared the
render thread and the performance is roughly two times faster in 5. 4 as compared to unreligion 5. 0 another huge performance update to
the rendering system in unreligion 5. 4 is the optimization of shader cook time. I think a lot of us are familiar with
the compiling shaders while in 5. 4, there has been a significant overall
in how shader compilation work is executed with both increases to paralyzation
and reduction in redundant work. So the results of this optimization
effort are approximately a 30 percent fewer shaders being compiled and all of
these factors result in a significant. Improvement in project cook times
among other rendering updates that were not showcased in GDC 5. 4 marks a experimental release of
Vulkan ray tracing features in parity with DirectX 12 on the Linux platform
So this will allow for things like the full suite of ray tracing features
to be used in Including a lumen and path tracing world building and open
worlds are also receiving their fair share of updates and non religion 5. 4, including a large world
coordinates on the GPU. So large world coordinates in
UE5 introduced support for double precision transforms and data types,
allowing from the maximum world size to increase from 21 kilometers. To over 88 million kilometers. Large world coordinate rendering
supports on the GPU was based on a tiled representation, which has its own number
of limitations, including imprecision and jittering near tile boundaries. Large world coordinate rendering is
undergoing a refactors to support full double precision representation on the
GPU, which will allow for large worlds to be rendered more reliably when the
camera is far away from the origin. Also in terms of large worlds,
we also have a new format. 5. 4 experimental sub world partitions,
which provides the possibility to have multiple sub world partitions within a
level enabled through code or blueprint. We also have more updates to the Nanite
landscape system, including a Nanite landscape automatic asynchronous build. So in previous versions, they
announced Nanite landscape support. Where you can build a nanite
mesh for your landscape. Now in 5. 4, they added a async build
support so that you can essentially sculpt your landscape, deform it. And in the background, it will
automatically and asynchronously process the nanite tiles. While keeping the editor
responsive and provide up to date landscape nanite data on the fly. PCG or the procedural content
generation system is also receiving tons of new updates in 5. 4. There are loads of new nodes and
operators that are being introduced into the PCG graph, but the most
notable of PCG updates are the new experimental biome core plugin. So the new PCG biome core plugin is
a data driven biome generator built entirely using the PCG framework. It showcases the latest improvements
and serves as an advanced example of world building tool for productions. The biome core is a fixed pipeline
using asset and biome definitions while designed to be very flexible
and dividing key components such as sampling, transforms, and filtering
into separate problem spaces. Each of these can be completely
customized to any project constraints or needs for using the PCG framework. Next up for developer iteration,
there have been a couple of new updates introduced in Unreal Engine 4. 5. 4 things like a unreal
engine cloud DCC solution. I explained these in a previous video,
but basically it seems like these are a cloud based solution for sharing things
like cooked data between team members. This also includes things like
authentication and a price login and much more features. But this is more or less like a cloud
solution for large teams or companies. So if you are interested in these
particular features, I won't explain them all in this video, I
recommend you check them all out by reading them on the public roadmap. I'll link it in the description below. Next up, we are receiving
lots of new updates for motion graphics in unreligion five. So if you're using unreligion five or
creating things like motion graphics. Unreal Engine 5. 4 has a huge update for motion
graphics, including a brand new motion graphics mode. So this new motion graphics mode is
equipped with specialized tools for motion graphics designers, and includes things
like a 2D canvas with enhanced world outliner featuring intuitive hierarchies. The motion graphics mode provides a
comprehensive suite, including 3D shapes, Cloners, effectors, modifiers, animators,
and features for non literary animations. This dedicated mode is engineered to
elevate the motion graphics design experience, offering a robust and user
friendly platform for designers to bring their creative visions to life. There are a lot more other motion
graphics updates coming in 5. 4. Some other noteworthy features
are things like SVG importer. And if you are into the motion
graphics side, I highly recommend you check out all of these. All of the list of updates on the public
roadmap link in the description below. Next up we have audio. Audio is receiving its fair
share of updates in unreligion 5. 4. Meta sounds, which was introduced in 5. 0 is now considered production ready in 5. 4. Although meta sounds are still under
heavy development with many new features and improvements planned that
have been shipped on all titles from Epic games, many of which were built
from the beginning on meta sounds. And they have made a number of performance
and memory improvements to achieve this. And plan on doing many more
now as for platform updates. Now there are a few notable platform
updates coming in Unreal Engine 5. 4, including a experimental
Apple vision pro support. So they expect to ship experimental
support for the Apple vision pros, full immersion style in 5. 4. And with this initial implementation,
Unreal Engine supports to stereo rendering through metal and camera transform
given by the head mounted display pose. Another experimental platform update is. The support for lumen on mobile. So this is a pretty interesting
platform update because we are now seeing the support for some of these
new on religion of futures that were previously limited to PC only, but
are now receiving support for other platforms like mobile and religion 5. 4 also ships with loads of
new modeling tools, UV tools, and now even texturing tools. So on 5. 4, there are new
experimental texturing tools. Essentially it's like a texture graph
editor that uses a node based system. There's not a whole lot of information
on this on the roadmap, but it appears to be some sort of way that you can
create textures for your models in engine using some base color material
nodes and different adjustment layers, filters, and blending. So I really think unreal engine is
just coming full circle at this point because they've introduced things like
modeling tools where you can model in engine to have added UV unwrapping tools. So you can unwrap the model. And now they're introducing these
new experimental texturing tools. So you can have the ability to
texture that model in engine. So this will just be an interesting
future to keep your eye on and see where it goes in the next couple of updates. In terms of Unreal Engine framework,
there are a few notable engine updates in. 5. 4, including a large world
coordinates network support. So this one stood out to me in
particular, I'm interested in working on a large open worlds and the large
world coordinates is now officially supported by unreal engines network
technology, which allows you to create large worlds in a multiplayer environment. Without having to worry about hitting
networking related limitations. Another notable update is the nav
mesh generation for large worlds. So while they were shipping Lego
fortnight, they had to optimize many different systems inside of their
navigation tools to have better support for larger and dynamic worlds. So one of these systems is the
NavMesh generation and they optimized it to have it become less of a
bottleneck with large open worlds with huge amounts of AI present. Simulation and VFX are also
receiving a few updates in 5. 4. The Chaos Cloth panel editor
which was introduced in 5. 3 is also receiving
various different updates. It was also even featured at GDC. Showcasing that you can
use it inside of UEFN. And they even showed a pipeline from
Marvelous Designer to the Chaos Cloth Panel Editor in Unreal Engine 5. 4. Another notable update in the
simulation and VFX side is the network physics support. So basically they're adding
support for network physics, which they've also used in Fortnite. They're adding two new capabilities. A predictive interpolation to provide
responsive and accurate physics. results and a physics resimulation
for if you need a pawn to be physics based in a multiplayer game. There are a lot more updates to Chaos
Physics and among other things, the Unreal Editor is also receiving a few
in editor updates, and one of them is the ability to adjust the overall
scale of the UI, which allows for better accessibility and scaling of
just the general editor user interface. Now there aren't a whole ton of rendering
and virtual production updates in 5. 4, but those that are the most
notable are the new experimental virtual scouting tool set. So this new virtual scouting tools
enable linear content creators to view, annotate, and edit your scenes in VR. So you can view and edit levels in VR. It also has a multi user editor session
where you can measure, annotate, and even play back things like level sequences. They've also added live link VCAM
for Android, the companion app to the in editor virtual camera system. And also virtual camera is coming
to Mac with full support in 5. 4. There are a other few updates
to things like depth of field. And again, this is more for the
virtual production side of the engine. So I'm not going to go too in
detail about all these new updates. I recommend you check out the full
list of futures on the public road map. And there are a lot of more updates
and futures in our version 5. 4 that couldn't completely
fit in this video. So if you guys want to see the full
list of updates and features, you can check out the public roadmap. I'll leave a link to it
in the description below. And it seems like we didn't get much
updates to the virtual production or the film side of the engine, but
it seems like it's more towards the game rendering and animation side. We have things like the new
animation retargeter, which allows you to quickly retarget animations. We have a new experimental modular
control rig that allows you to quickly create a control rig for any
character using presetted options. We also have a new nanite
tessellation, which allows for runtime nanite displacement. They've added a new
motion warping template. And animations for games and there
are loads of new motion graphics tools and updates, including its own
dedicated motion graphics editing mode. There are also lots of updates
to PCG and open world features. So yeah, let me know what features
you guys are most excited about. In Unreligion 5. 4, I think it's just interesting to see
that there's lots of quality of life updates coming in this new engine version,
things like the new animation retargeter. That one just seems like a no brainer
to me, but yeah, let me know what you guys think down in the comments
down below and also check out my multiplayer survival game course. Like I mentioned before, I'll be
remastering it in Unreligion 5. 4, so stay tuned for that. And as always, I'll see
you guys in the next one.
