SKYE RUSSELL: Hey folks, and welcome to this week's News and Community
Spotlight--
It is time for our biggest sale of the year:
the Black Friday mega-sale!
Over 15,000 Marketplace products are discounted at up to 70%
off for a limited time.
So whether you're looking for the perfect robot samurai
companion or to travel to far-away planets,
the UE community of creators has you covered!
Dive into the deals over at the Unreal Engine Marketplace.
Discounts end November 30th at 11:59 PM Eastern.
Ready to up your Unreal Engine game or up your game in Unreal Engine?
We've got some fantastic online courses
that will take your skills to the next level.
Jump over to the Epic Developer Community platform
and learn how to work more efficiently with Blueprints,
create believable facial animations, and much more!
RealityCapture's latest release brings several improvements
to your pipeline, including an automated workflow
for transferring large datasets from RealityCapture to Unreal Engine 5,
under-the-hood changes for easier cloud deployment, and more!
So regardless of your workflow, you're
sure to find capturing reality even easier!
We're also excited to announce that CapturingReality
has joined the EDC and forums.
So if you're looking to discuss everything CapturingReality,
and even learn more about RealityCapture's Automated CLI
pipelines for Large Datasets or the UE5 Photogrammetry Importer
and more, head on over to dev.epicgames.com/community.
Tools to empower indie developers have come a long way
in the last couple of years making ambitious projects possible.
In our latest tech-blog over at unrealengine.com/feed,
find out how solo indie developer, Strange Shift Studio leveraged
Unreal, Houdini, and fractal math to create otherworldly landscapes
filled with colossal creatures.
While there, learn how VR-based solutions developed by SkyReal
on Unreal Engine has allowed aerospace giant Safran
to meet requirements for its immersive and effective training
and design tools for its nearly 80,000 employees globally.
Dive into even more content on the feed
and learn about Aviation training giant CAE,
and how they constantly strive for better image quality and development
efficiency.
By moving from proprietary systems to Unreal Engine,
CAE is able to leverage the engine's superior graphics,
as well as industry standards and commercial hardware,
to meet its production goals.
With a swathe of battle royale games for multiplayer fans to choose from,
it takes a special newcomer to burst into the arena and body
slam the competition.
Discover how Iron Galaxy Studios developed a fun,
highly-playable melee-focused combat system for Rumbleverse--and why
Unreal Engine was the natural choice for game development--on the feed.
Moving over to this week's Community Spotlights--
What if the last star of the universe was in the hands of just one person?
Go on a visual journey that any sci-fi lover is bound to enjoy.
Turn off the lights and enjoy this spectacular out-of-this-world short
film by ValOne.
Watch The Last Star in full on their Youtube channel!
Can you manage a port and supply a city with goods and food?
Introducing Portobugia by Bogland Studio,
a management survival game with a few twists.
Reep the rewards of your ace port management,
or face the consequences of a crumbling city.
Wishlist now on Steam in time for their upcoming release!
Lumen, Nanite and fantastic environment effects
can really bring a scene to life as Archviz and Environment Designer
Melhem Sfeir demonstrates in their phenomenal latest project.
Scrap what you're doing and head on over
to their ArtStation to find out more about
how they created Scrapyard Find!
Thanks for watching.
Catch you next week.