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Epic Games announced the release of Unreal Engine 4.26 for general availability. The release comes with a host of bug fixes and improvements as well as new features. This release brings new tools that extend the users’ ability to create more relaistic real-time environments and characters for games, film & TV, visualization, and training & simulation, improved virtual production toolset; higher-quality media output, improved design review tools, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highlights of Unreal Engine 4.26<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Unreal Engine<\/a> is an open-source and cross-platform game engine developed by Epic Games and written in C++. It is an advanced real-time 3D<\/a> creation platform for creating photorealistic visuals, interactive, and immersive experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hair, Fur, and Feathers Ready for Production With Groom Asset Editor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The new Groom Asset Editor replaces the properties editor with a fully-featured editor where you can manage and edit your imported grooms with visual representation in its own viewport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this artists can create convincing humans or animals, with the ability to simulate and render true strand-based hair, fur, and feathers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sky, Cloud, and Environment Lighting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here artists get the ability to create dynamic time-of-day lighting for large worlds from the sky, atmosphere, and cloud systems. With a new cloud rendering system for large scale cloudscapes and atmospheric fog, artists now get fully dynamic, material-driven workflow for cloud creation with scalable quality across console and desktop platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sky lighting now supports real-time scene capture for atmosphere, clouds, height fog, and opaque meshes which is more performant than the Blueprint node.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Water Rendering and Meshing System<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is a new fully-featured water rendering and meshing system in Unreal Engine 4.26 that supports large, open worlds enabling you to quickly create rivers, lakes, and oceans using spline-based workflows. The water system also offers unified shading and rendering pipeline integration along with surface meshing that supports physics interactions and fluid simulation with gameplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unreal Engine 4.26 Extended Virtual Production Toolset<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Through technology such as NVIDIA<\/a>\u2019s NVLink, data can be transferred between two GPUs at very high speed allowing any viewport to be rendered on another GPU, for example, one display-facing GPU<\/a> would render the entire scene while another handles the inner frustum, passing the pixels back to the first one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Included is a new fully REST-compliant Remote Control API that enables you to easily collect and organize any parameters or function libraries from the Unreal Engine UI into customizable presets. These can be used in a panel in the Unreal Editor, or seamlessly connected to widgets\u2014such as radial dials, sliders, or color pickers\u2014in web applications, without coding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enhanced High-Quality Media Output<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Movie Render Queue enables you to create high-quality frames with accumulated anti-aliasing and motion blur for film and television, cinematics, and marketing, and extremely high-resolution images for print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improvements in this release make it possible to output render passes, including matte IDs, camera motion vectors, Z-depth, ambient occlusion, reflections, and more from the Movie Render Queue, enabling you to refine your images in downstream compositing or photo-editing application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is now also added support for OpenColorIO (OCIO) to both the Movie Render Queue and the viewport as well as new support for exporting multi-channel EXRs, Apple ProRes, and Avid DNxHR codecs, and Final Cut Pro XML EDLs, as well as the ability to integrate render farms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unreal Engine 4.26 Collaborative Design Reviews<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are now significant usability and performance improvements in the Collaborative Viewer template that enables multi-user design reviews on VR\/AR\/Desktop. This allows more users to join a collaborative review session. Additionally, there is support for voice communication between participants over VOIP using in-engine peer-to-peer protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This just scratches the surface of what is included in Unreal Engine 4.26. You can get a comprehensive list of new features and improvements from the official Unreal Engine Release Notes here<\/a>. At your own convenience, you can get your free copy of this game and interactive engine here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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