Talk:UnrealOni

Limits of Github

• 1 GB storage
• 100 MB max file size
• 3 collaborators for private repositories
• LFS
  • 1 GB bandwidth
  • 1 GB storage

Unreal Engine 5

• To be released 2021/2022.
  • Trello still lists a 4.26, which might be the last update for main version 4.
  • A separate (preview) of 4.26-Chaos (destruction physics) has been released too.

UE 5 is basically UE 4 fully matured.

Features:

• UE 4 projects can be ported
• Nanite: Objects with extreme high poly count are not longer a problem
• Lumen: Real time illumination (and no more normal maps and baking required)
• Niagara: Advanced particles system
• Anims that better interact with env

Programs and automation

Epic seems to keep adding Python support so some aspects of workflows can be automated with more ease.

Therefore Blender and Unreal seems to be a good combination in the future.

List of interesting programs beside UE4/5:

• Blender (general 3D and animations)
• Subtance (high-end material creation)
• Zbrush (so far more suited for "organic" character creation than Blender)

At some point Datasmith (export addons for more professional programs) / Visual Data Prep might be worth a look.

• Visual Dataprep (Mathew Wadstein)
• Visual Dataprep with a material substitute table (Unreal Engine)

List of languages that can work together:

• Blueprints (you could say "Visual Scripting of C++")
  • It allows relative easy programming (or more exactly "scripting") for doing standard stuff. Professionals consider it more as "rapid prototyping" to demo something.
• C++ (add new functionality)
• Python (automation, managing assets)

Things that can be automated

Objects: Within Blender Python can be used to generate series of objects differing in color, material and what not.

Export: export settings can be called from script.

Import: Python works also with the Unreal editor...

• import per se
• class creation

Placement: Python can place assets into a level.

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Working with C++

Note of warning: Unreal Engine gets updates on a regular basis. To have always the most and up-to-date features available one would need to transfer own code from an old engine to the new one.

Best practices to import old content?

• items
• textures
• materials
• sounds
• particle
• collections (tables)
  • [...]
• text pages
• levels
  • core geometry (workaround for collision problems? breaking things up?)
  • furniture (with/without collision boxes)
  • animated objects
  • ENVP particle
• characters
  • animations
  • char particle
• cutscenes
  • BSL scripts?
  • FILM?
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