r/unrealengine

I've recently launched an auto retopology tool for Blender which I have been working on for over a year, it uses specialized methods for each mesh class (cloth, inanimate and organic) in order to reach the best possible output. Most of the time was spent in learning ONNX and how to build models correctly.

Inanimate objects can translate to any hard surface models which require no vertex deformation, the remesher is equipped to generate the lowest possible vertex count while prioritizing the overall 3D shape and outputting coherent edge flow mimicking artist-like topology.

Inanimate remeshing is completely automated and can handle loose parts intelligently, though it is recommended to keep face count below 1.1 mil to ensure a faster completion rate.

As for cloth remeshing, it is guided using UV islands while assisting the artist by highlighting the vertices to use for creating a grid. I plan to fully automate this using multiple AI layers + algorithms, much like what is currently configured for inanimate.

Documentation and tutorials are planned (things are pretty self explanatory though), will be visible in the account center under the Community section. If you purchased through my Lemon Squeezy during it's early stages, insert your email or order # in the promo code area for a discount or free upgrade depending on the license.

available at https://empyreanremesher.com/

I am (Mateusz) responsible for about 70% of this animation.
I used several programs to create this animation:
Unreal Engine 5.4 with Pathtracing - render Engine and lighting
Blender - 3D modeling and fixing animation (time to time)
Substance Painter - Textures
Marvelous Designer - Clothes modeling
Davinci resolve - Color Grading and film editing
For character's animation i use Perception Neuron Studio and my friend give me access to his motion capture studio with Vicon. The facial animation was done on an iPhone (Metahuman) and involved a lot of hand adjustments.

However, I would never have finished this project if it hadn't been for the help of my friend David. He is responsible for simulations in Houdini. At first, I wanted to simulate the clothes in Marvelous, but it quickly turned out to be a crazy idea. In the end, Dawid developed a clever automated process that streamlined the work. For some aspects, I also turned to other graphic designers and people for help (whom you can see listed in the credits) like concept art and some hard clothing models. I also bought some of the models (but I modeled the entire academy from scratch).

I am a student making a prototype game for school, I am trying to start an onscreen timer at the end of a cutscene through an event in the cutscene.
However, no matter what i do, the bool I use for a branch does not change from its default value despite the prints telling me that the custom events that change the bool's value are called.

What am I doing wrong or not understanding?
(I have images that can't be added in the post)

Hi,

I noticed an increased release of stolen assets on Fab.

Like this wonderful seller:

https://www.fab.com/listings/9109f9bb-96b5-4eaf-be47-6caeab50a9b9

Is there no quality control left? It can't be more obvious and still it's released as a paid item.

I have encountered an issue recently.

I exported as from Blender as a .FBX and found that it screwed my shaders, so the workaround was doing a .glTX

So now apparently if I want to add collision to a cusom shape it works best as a .FBX

Im definitely missing a critical workflow and would appreciate being pointed in the right direction. Im not UV unwrapping, its low poly textures.

Ty for help

Hi! I’m Olivier, the creative director on Ghosts in the City, our indie game currently in development.

I've been experimenting with an anime-inspired visual style for our alternate 1982 Tokyo in UE5.

This is captured directly from our current build.

I’d be really interested to hear what other Unreal devs think of the overall art direction and visual style.

Feedback welcome :)

Just wanted to comment on this, maybe I'm the only one. I'm pretty old. I have been making games for a few decades. Back in the day there was a lot more information sharing. Believe it or not, Game Developer Magazine used to be printed, and it used to be full of interesting technical articles. Even after things went online, if someone came up with a new or innovative approach to a problem, you could usually get it for free (or, at most, pay for a book that was a huge collection of such things).

Now everything is a marketplace plugin.

I get it, times are hard, people need to make money. But it's just lame. It feels like there isn't as much sharing of techniques, even though the process of making a game itself has gotten much easier (you can download full AAA engines!)

And - maybe I'm wrong - it doesn't seem that Unreal plugins really sell all that well. So someone goes to all the trouble to figure out a problem, and they lock it up in a retail plugin to make, what, $50 a year?

A few years ago I commented on a Reddit post advertising a technique for screen-space Niagara particles, which of course turned out to be an ad for a retail plugin, and I suggested a middle-ground: why not offer the plugin for sale for those who just want it to work, but also make a video or tutorial explaining how you did it? That way people with the knowledge can decide if your approach works for them before spending money, or even do it on their own?

Hi

I am currently using 4.27, and I am amazed with the capability of the control rig. Sadly, the beta control rig plugin not support functions, and If I make a rig too complex, it become slow in the editor, so I thought maybe I am switching to unreal 5 for it. sadly, my notebook is fairly old, but it can handle 4.27 without any issue (7th generation i5 processor, 20 Gb ram, GeForce 940Mx video card, I am not planning to create any super realistic game) I wonder if it worth switching purely because of control rig functionality, or even my notebook would handle the newer version of the editor(I know the 5.7 not usable, I tried it).

Alternatively, is there a solution to make the beta control rig support functions?

I appreciate any advice.

let me know what you guys think. the improved version also supports:

• Image tearing - all sides supported.
• Blur and compressed downsampling
• Color compression / Posterization
• Distortion randomizaiton

did i miss anything? i tried not to go too over-board with all the effects!

A few months ago, someone posted here that he made a plug-in that automatically pauses the unreal editor when nobody uses it for a while. I thought I saved it somewhere but I couldn't find it after searching for a long time.

If you remember this plugin, could you please share its name or link with me?

Thank you so much.

Like before, this is a voxel-ish visualization for my fluid sim.

I’m a trained architect, and I’ve been working on a project that combines accurate architectural planning with a real-time 3D environment.

The goal is to make early-stage architectural design more intuitive than traditional CAD/BIM workflows. You can create accurate, dimensioned floor plans while simultaneously seeing the building update in 3D.

Walls, doors, windows, and other elements are parametric, so changes in the floor plan immediately update the 3D model. The idea is to make design exploration feel more direct while still keeping real dimensions and architectural logic.

I’m curious what people working with BIM professionally think about this approach. What would you consider essential for something like this to actually be useful in an architectural workflow?

Hey all,

I'm in need of some guidance and I'm not sure where to start. I want to develop my own version of a mechanic simulator style game in Unreal Engine. There are aspects of those types of games that I love, but other aspects that I think REALLY need to be improved or built on. I have several years of experience in Blender, but basically none Unreal.

I'm reluctant to admit, I initially turned to Gemini help get me started on the project since I'm starting in the dark. But I quickly realized it was walking me through each individual step. And since I was going based on the Blueprint suggestions from AI, I wasn't fully understanding the logic. Therefore, I didn't know how to modify it for other scenarios.

I guess, does anyone have any suggestions for tutorials that would be relevant for a game like this? I've searched for all sorts of things but searching things like "mechanic game" makes YT think I'm searching for "game mechanics" and if I include "car", I get a bunch of car rigging videos, which are fine but I'm definitely not at that point yet.

Currently, I want to learn how to get an object tree set up where you can only remove Part A if you remove Fastener X, Y & Z. Then you can get to Part B, etc. I was also having issues switching from first person to an orbit cam around the parts. Maybe I'm starting way above my skill level and I don't realize it, but this initial mechanic seems like something that should be straight forward.

Let me know. I'm not part of any game dev communities or anything, and again I feel like I'm 100% in the dark, so I'm reaching out here.

hello! I’m making a game where the player is a giant robot in a city and will face enemies such as tanks, helicopters etc. so far I’ve been doing this via a pawn with floating movement components but I’ve been wondering if this is the best way to do it.

it will be semi stylized and they won’t have any super complex visuals/physics, and ideally I’d like the make the game not too demanding targeted at lower end systems. I’ve seen potentially the chaos vehicles system but this seems overkill.

I was just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on how to approach this?

Who actually runs wires directly out of Function Inputs and if so why? My preferred style with functions and their inputs is to use the parameterized getters so I NEVER have to run wires across my graph. Same for Breaks on structs. I am sure someone out there will say that you should break a struct once and use all the inputs you need with that one break. But... nah... I'll copy/paste multiple struct references and break each one so I don't deal with wires.

For instance: Break S_SomethingSomething > Use bOutput1 and connect to branch

Copy same struct reference and break, but then use bOutput2 for the next branch, or whatever.

I'm sure I could use both, but I'm not about tracing back wires to figure out what goes to what.