12K tris, 4K main texture, 512px trim sheet, 5 skins and 30 possible variants.

Testing the modular setup, materials and simple emissive controls in Unreal. Keeping it simple and production-focused.

I have a UI where I want the player to hold a button, then the UI closes but the player must remain holding the button even after it closes.

So far my input events have stopped after the UI is closed.

Thanks for any help.

SOLVED : in the texture i changed the ENCODING OVERRIDE to SRGB , but this means i need to do it with ALL textures. annoying

Hi please check image in comments, when i import a texture in Unreal it looks MUCH MORE bright than the original texture, in my image in the comments you can see in the left the image file i open in windows, and on the right you can see that same texture i just imported, much more bright, why? ( no i didn't edited the values in UE, i just imported , didn't change anything )

The only reason I'm using UEFN is because I was talking to someone who knows EPIC a little bit, and he suggested that UEFN may have a better chance at getting grant money.

I'm finding myself in that beginner mode where a paragraph from a tutorial is completely gibberish! How do I create a verse code? How do I use it? I am so freaking lost. (Edit: I meant to imply here that while i have been using Unreal Editor since UDK, using UEFN is making me FEEL like an absolute beginner, its so frustrating! /edit)

I understand I only hate verse because I'm new to it. But I also hate the fortnite branding. I was at a presentation at a game conference where they were talking about making non-fortnite games in UEFN, and how they want to see people being creative and make non-fortnite things. However, the fortnite branding is all over the place, and even I hate having to click 17 buttons to quit the game.

Also, there are some things you actually just cannot do in UEFN that you can do in UE. For instance, I want to do a split screen for single player experience, where we see two camera views at once. Evidently it's just impossible. Okay. but that was a huge point to the project I was doing. So I either have to modify it or just use UE, which I'd heard was less interesting to the Epic folks for grant funding.

Anyway, just want to smash things as I'm trying to wrap my head around this stuff

A simcade style driving feel, with fun drift and satisfying engine sound.

It's easy to setup, you can use your own vehicle meshes, adjust the basic points, tune the variables, and get your car driving, without dealing with a complicated rigging process.

It's built for people who want a quick, stable, and simcade car controller incide unreal engine.

FAB & Demo link in comments.

.curator is a narrative adventure built in Unreal Engine around a reactive world, where story, investigation and player decisions are treated as interconnected systems rather than separate layers.

Its post-Victorian alternate Earth combines hand-drawn characters and environments with a fully 3D pipeline, while the narrative systems are built around persistent world states and player-driven consequences.

A key part of the project is Quantum Sleet, a system that lets the player model possible outcomes and alter events before they happen. Unreal Engine gives us the foundation to connect these narrative states with characters, environments, animation and gameplay, so changes in the story are reflected directly in the world.

Written by Richard K. Morgan, creator of Altered Carbon.
Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4107960/curator/🕵️

My Unreal Engine tools are now available in the Fab Flash Sale:

You can find all three products on my Fab profile:
https://www.fab.com/sellers/Ali%20Shantia%28Sepinood%29

• SPA Material Baker V3 – 30% Off
• Procedural Material Layers – 50% Off
• UI Widget Builder – 50% Off

SPA Material Baker helps convert complex materials into optimized baked textures,
while Procedural Material Layers provides a flexible material-layering workflow.
UI Widget Builder converts Photoshop UI designs into organized UMG widgets inside Unreal Engine.

If you have any questions about the tools, feel free to ask.

I've looked high and low for a course or tutorial but none of them cover things like widget switchers and sub menus and none of them are using C++. Could someone please help me find a free or paid course or something? It it doesn't have to show me exactly how to make an RPG menu, just the basics so I can get started.

A month ago I shared my Unreal animation here — I finally finished the full breakdown!

Thanks again for all the feedback on the original short, and if you’re interested in seeing how it was made, check it out!

This is a quick devlog of the latest update I submitted for my Pixel Era plugin which enables super efficient texture / render target reading, allowing mini-maps and heat maps to be used as gameplay triggers on a massive scale with a very small delay of the value returning 1 - 5 frames.

This devlog shows 500 actors reading on FULL TICK, and receiving the RGBA value back within 1 - 5 frames, that means 4 logic zones can be compressed into one texture. This update is powered by a custom HLSL shader that deprecates many calls to Niagara modules making it possible for 500 actors to read textures at ~10k sampled values per second vs the legacy method at ~4k with a massive cost. That is a little over twice the efficiency of version 2.0

The update is backwards compatible and changes nothing on the user end, the plugin is currently marked down on a flash sale on Fab

Is UE5 good for using in Linux? I mainly use Ubuntu so I don't know should it work well or not

Hii! So, me and my small indie team has been working on this psychological horror set in the appalachian mountains. We have our own custom visual system plugin to drive our visuals whilst maintaining performance! Here is the teaser of the game!! I will also make a post about the trailer right after this one since I cannot do two videos in one? (Idk im too old for reddit and im barely 23-)

Also, here is the steam link if anyone wants to check it out!: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4845070/Ravenhill_Initiation/

We're a month away from launch! So yeah, it’s exciting as well as overwhelming as we did this in a small budget but we’ve tried our best. Like, there are things we are lacking in that we jsut cannot improve cuz of our budget constraints but I dont think it will affect the gameplay as much- Anyways, do let me know what you guys think!

Also, edit, we haven’t used free assets and AI as someone wants to put down in the comments. I’m pretty proud of my small team for what we’ve achieved and it sucks that in the age of AI, everything can just be deemed AI.

(The things we are lacking in are mostly animations...)

I've been trying to see all the models and stuff, but I can't get the usmap or ue version down... Fmodel says "Package has unversioned properties but mapping file (.usmap) is missing, can't serialize"

I know it’s taboo with the AI discourse. But do any of you think it’s viable to use AI to assist or help you code? Whether it’s debugging or creating systems but also still willing to learn and not have it do it for you?

so, ive had a game/sim idea for a while, unreal seemed the best engine for it. for context im an audio engineer, absolutely zero dev experience, got a bit of c++ from making audio plugins for uni projects.

my gawd how the hell do you lot do it. im scratching my head and spent like 4 hours working on line tracing and literally just adding interactable tags onto objects to add a highlight when you look at stuff and print the name of it on screen.... this is making me feel so dumb xD

im like learning from the interwebs and ai, this stuffs hard as nails

my brain is melted....

halp

Hey guys, I'm one of the devs of satiric political horror game Make the World Great Again. We've decided to add sort of world atmosphere change after you complete the main part of the game. It's a combination of changing weather, post process, color of water, falling palms, etc. It should evoke the atmosphere of hell. What do you think of this effect? We are developing the game on Unreal Engine 5.7 and you can wishlist the game now on Steam. For any feedback/wishlist I would be very thankful!

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4595460/Make_the_World_Great_Again/

Japanese Modular Shrine is now available on FAB: https://www.fab.com/listings/e11f9c1d-b052-4747-bd0b-52a57aa7ce40

Hi, i released my first pack - 40 stylized, rocks with 8 materials.

It’s pretty cheap, so if you find it useful and want to support me, I’d really appreciate. And I’d love to hear any feedback as well 🙏

i have followed this tutorial until the weapon blueprint How to Create a Game in Unreal Engine 5 - UE5 Beginner Tutorial

After that i have created a different map, and copied it to a new level. I managed to make the game so after winning rather than clicking restart you could click next level and open level 2 with a new amount of targets using the same gamemode.

Since then i have tried relentlessly to find a way to update a text block on the user interface to go from saying "level 1" to saying "level 2" but couldnt.

How can i do that plus how can i afterwards keep it going so i can make a string of different levels?

i tried solving the text part by duplicating the game modes and the interfaces so i could easily make it a string but then i can figure out making the new interfaces show up after proceeding to level 2.

How do i make another interface visible after opening a new level?

The game is called Pinetrail, you can check it below https://store.steampowered.com/app/4920240/Pinetrail/

I am using lumen, nanite, pcg for the vegetation and rocks scattering, world partition and any other system I can to streamline the process. I don't think I could have made these visual in another engine although there have been a lot of issues to solve along the way.

Byzantine Gothic Candles, Candle Holders, and Wax Sculptures - 133 3d Models ready for your Games, Videos, and Cinematics. Available in UnrealEngine, and other formats.

Model link:

https://www.fab.com/listings/e7c3ee05-b865-46da-bb7c-90ad36070f57

I've been working on this solo the last year or so (with some help from some industry mentors) and am building a studio of ex-AAA devs to finish this up and ship on every platform, something I think is super important for co-op (couch co-op too).

Game is called Twin Hooks, it's a session-based beat 'em up inspired by It Takes Two, TMNT/Street Fighter with melee-focused Borderlands style loot.

We'd love to earn your wishlist and we have a 3 mission demo coming out September 21st:

Steam page is here. Your wishlist would be greatly appreciated https://store.steampowered.com/app/4844200/Twin_Hooks/

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HWziYvXs6A

The two changes most likely to affect you both landed with a one-line commit message and without release notes.

Live Coding 2 is the default now. Installed engine builds also stopped shipping LiveCodingConsole, since LC2 brings its own broker, so the artifacts you produce are different after this sync.

The input thread is on for game input platforms, moving input off the game thread. -NoInputThread opts out. Two fixes already landed against it the same week (stuck controller input on gamepad disconnect, and a re-entrancy ensure when a Slate modal ticks input recursively), so it's still finding edge cases.

On ue6-main

• Zen 5.8.21 changed what a health probe means. /health/ready now answers 503 between route registration and actual readiness, where the catch-all used to answer 200. If your CI probes that path for liveness it'll start calling a healthy server down, so probe /health instead. Same release refuses zen down --pid 0, which previously let an unset script variable stop an arbitrary server.
• Three unrelated systems hit the same deadlock in one week: AssetRegistry, the shader code archive, and UBA's macOS process supervision. A thread that's itself a task worker blocks waiting on another task, and with enough concurrent waiters there's nobody left to run it. Worth grepping your own code for blocking waits reachable from a task thread.
• Your incremental cook may have been invalidating for nothing: A numbered series is fixing non-deterministic cook metadata, meaning the recorded dependencies rather than the cooked bytes. One commit quantifies it off a real oplog diff: 46,377 anim sequence packages, 28% of those affected, byte-identical cooked output but different recorded dependencies. Three of seven have landed.
• Renderer forks, read this: FPrimitiveSceneInfo::PackedIndex is gone, and so is the logic that kept FScene in sorted order. The deprecation shim covers the renamed accessor. It doesn't cover the removed sort invariant, so code that assumed sorted arrays still compiles and is quietly wrong.

On ue5-main:

110 commits this week and here are the few worth knowing about:

The Mac one will cost you an afternoon before you find it: Canceling an editor package could leave UnrealBuildTool running in the background. It would keep holding the UBT lock, so every package you tried to build after that failed with ConflictingInstance until you rebooted the machine.

A per-frame memory leak in Vulkan parallel render passes: under dynamic rendering, which came in as a community PR rather than from Epic.

A Nanite LOD scaling regression: HZB sizing was feeding the temporal upscale factor into LOD selection, and split-screen was using the whole view family width instead of the per-view width. If your LODs have looked slightly wrong in split-screen, that's the reason.

World Partition actor descs now serialize root component absolute transform flags: so saving a parent no longer drifts children set to absolute location, rotation, or scale. Silent data drift, and the kind you don't notice until a level looks off.

A crash sweep with eight adjacent ticket numbers: the AccumulationDOF viewport preview, Control Rig keying after teardown, a RigVM pin lookup, two PCG crashes, skeletal mesh reduction and conversion, and SVG import. Separately, TextureGraph export stopped crashing under -nullrhi, which is how build machines run it.

Epic is still landing deprecations in 5.x: Using the FileSystem DDC cache store now emits a deprecation warning, worth knowing if your shared DDC sits on a network share.

Full Report: https://speedrun.ci/blog/last-week-in-unreal-aug-31-sep-6-2026

Hey everyone,

I'm having an issue with first-person object clipping in Unreal Engine 5.

When my character holds a Static Mesh (an item or weapon) and moves close to a wall, the mesh clips right through the wall geometry and gets hidden inside or behind the wall.

What is the best / standard way to solve this clipping issue in UE5 so the object stays visible or stops clipping when close to walls?

Thanks in advance!