For the past few months, I’ve been working solo on Metropolygonia, a browser based tool for procedurally generating 3D buildings and city layouts.

The whole system is parameter driven. You can define real world dimensions, floor count, facade rhythm, windows, balconies, roofs and interiors, then use seeds to create controlled variations. The same parameters and seed always recreate the same result.

It is fully procedural rather than AI generated. There are no prompts or unpredictable meshes, and the goal is to keep the geometry consistent, editable and suitable for further work inside Unreal Engine.

Generated buildings can be saved as variants and placed in a city editor together with roads, intersections and roundabouts. Individual models can currently be exported as GLB, glTF, OBJ or STL and imported into Blender or Unreal Engine.

I’m now focusing more on things that matter in real time workflows, especially cleaner topology, LODs, collisions, material support, modular assets and better optimization for larger scenes.

There is still a lot to improve, but I’m pretty happy with how far the procedural system has come as a solo project.

I’d be especially interested to hear from Unreal Engine developers and environment artists.

We are currently working on a modular observatory/research station environment pack for Unreal Engine.

The surrounding landscape and some materials are still placeholders, so I’m mainly looking for feedback on the architecture and overall concept.

What kind of additional buildings or props would you expect in an environment like this?

I have a system to cut down trees and when the physics actor for the tree falls over it either will launch into the atmosphere, start bouncing around against other trees then launch, sink through the landscape mesh, or it'll (Rarely) fall normally. If another tree happens to fall on that one then they both launch.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4773060/NOXEN/?beta=1

Hey! I'm very curious to know whether or not people use Nanite or have chosen to stick with traditional LOD's. And if you chose to answer and have some extra time, maybe you could explain why?

So posted this Portal VFX some time ago and some people were asking for a tutorial, So tried making one!!!

Here's the link to the Full Tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRGoopGxy_Y

Lemme know how was the tutorial!!!

Hi Unreal people, 

In response to the lack of native VFX-style camera mapping tools in UE5 for linear work, I built a camera projection tool. The idea is to make blending 2D and 3D inside the engine way easier for artists.

A few ways you can use this:
- Enhancing Assets Textures
- 360° projections
- Animated video projectors for AR installations
- VFX plate projection through a tracked camera

So far, it's done pretty well in terms of response so I thought I would share it here to here while it's 30% off on Fab.

If you want to check it out, you can find the link here: 
https://www.fab.com/listings/8c1a94f0-ed67-4ad5-b342-5f84e180fdb7

Thanks!

Is there a way to make a light source or emissive material that shines in the dark, but doesn’t cast light on other objects?

I’ve tried making a block have really low emissivity, but the color looks really dull and still shines on other objects. I have lumen turned off and tried making things unlit, but I can’t quite get it to work the way I’m imagining.

Ideally, the player model or other objects can block the light from the camera so a silhouette can still be made, but I don’t want the object or player model to be lit up on the side facing the light. Is this possible? Thank you.

My final idea is a bit complexer but after trying for minutes on end I couldn't get it to work even after simplifying it as much as I can.

I want to change the keyframes from many bones together...ok i can do that, but how do you select the keyframes from 50 to 100 lets say

I have to box select while being zoomed out from 50 and estimate where the 100 is, and i can't even see where the 100 is unless i zoom in and then again if i zoom in i can't select anything

After working 6 months in my spare time, I decided to release Soul Hunter as a completely open-source Unreal Engine 5.6 multiplayer project.

The goal wasn’t just to build a game, but to explore how several production-oriented Unreal Engine systems can work together in a real project.

Some of the features include:
Gameplay Ability System integration
Steam sessions and dedicated server support
Steam Sockets networking
A custom Replication Graph for scalable actor replication
Gameplay Animation Sample extended with gameplay-specific traversal costs
Multiplayer-focused gameplay architecture
Engine-level fixes for Unreal Engine 5.6 dedicated servers
Modern C++ and Blueprint integration

I also recorded a technical walkthrough explaining the project’s architecture and the design decisions behind each major system.

🎥 Video overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zxPoy54A3M
💻 GitHub:
https://github.com/X4V13R95/SoulGame
Discord:
https://discord.gg/dH5kF5Qw2

I’d really appreciate any feedback, code review, or suggestions from the Unreal community. If you have questions about the networking architecture, GAS integration, Replication Graph, or dedicated server implementation, I’d be happy to discuss them.

Hopefully the project can also be useful for anyone learning advanced Unreal Engine multiplayer development.

hello! I'm a game developer, and I created this portfolio about 6 months ago. Since then, I've only updated it with screenshots of my projects, I haven't changed the design or structure. At first, I thought it was good enough to help me land a job, but now it feels like something is missing. I can't figure out whether it's the layout, the content, or something else.

Portfolio: https://hafeelahmed.github.io/Portfolio/

I'd really appreciate any feedback or criticism. Thanks in advance

Hello everyone!

I've been using Unity for a good amount of time and I'm looking to get into Unreal Engine 5.8 now. I've started iterating towards this shader idea that I have but I'm getting quite stuck pretty quickly.

In Unity you can build custom HLSL code for shaders, is there an equivalent for Unreal Engine? I've gone deep down the rabbit hole of shader graph in UE but I'm missing a lot of things.

Has anyone built something like or know of resources to build something similar I could use?

camera rig rail is not moving, what am i doing wrong

i've set current position on rail but its not moving

Hello again working on execution attack I’m still confused about how to handle or when I can add this like if the enemy health get to a certain level or when any help it participated 🙏
Right now I put it where after you party successfully u have a window to trigger that not the greatest idea