Hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old ...

One of the stand out features with Unreal Engine 4.7 is the addition of the new Foliage Shading Model, which allows for light to be transmitted through grass, leaves, paper, and other materials. The ...

In this workshop, we’ll explore the process of relighting a 3D environment in Unreal Engine, taking inspiration from Luminism and the Hudson River School. Rather than aiming for strict realism, this ...

Ray tracing has been a revolution, and it’s steadily becoming the norm for triple-A games. To put it another way, it’s lighting tech you definitely feel the absence of should a rogue update take away ...

Fortnite Chapter 4 uses Unreal Engine 5's newest lighting features and the results are incredible. The blog post goes into more detail about exactly what kind of changes have been made, but the most ...

Andras Ketzer's FluidNinja VFX toolset gives us a taste of the insane fog the horizon with next-gen games While browsing Twitter, I came across a Tweet showcasing this incredible Unreal Engine 4 dry ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Holy snaps! The game design arena just escalated ten-fold. We've been introduced to Unreal Engine ...

That statement from Epic Games’ Senior Technical Artist and Level Designer Alan Willard doesn’t seem like such a big deal on the surface. To a non-programmer, it probably sounds like the blindingly ...

After last week's somewhat blasé showcase of in-development Xbox Series X software, our expectations for the coming generation of new game consoles were somewhat tempered. But those expectations got a ...

Bottom line: Epic's latest version of Unreal Engine is making waves with substantial performance improvements and visual enhancements that address long-standing engine issues. Direct comparisons ...