Epic Games has shared some exciting news! They’ve made Unreal Engine 5.3 accessible for everyone to download. Epic Games has been working really hard to make their famous game-making tool even better.
They’ve been releasing updates one after another to add new features and make it work even better for creating 3D games and stuff like that. Unreal Engine 5 came out in April 2022 and it’s been getting a lot of attention from people who make video games and movies.
In less than two years, many games have been made using Unreal Engine 5, like Tekken 8 and Black Myth: Wukong, which people are really looking forward to. Some games made with Unreal Engine 5 have already come out in 2023, like Immortals of Aveum, which is one of the most popular ones.
The latest version of Unreal Engine 5 has made lots of things better and added some cool new stuff. Two of the coolest things in Unreal Engine 5 are Nanite and Lumen, and they’re getting even better in the 5.3 update.
Nanite is now faster when dealing with certain materials, like leaves and stuff, and it can show more types of surfaces really well. Lumen is also getting better thanks to some special tech called Hardware Ray Tracing. It can now make things look even more realistic with things like better reflections and it works better on game consoles.
In the new version of Unreal Engine 5.3, there are some cool new things to try out. These are special tools that game makers can use.
- Sparse Volume Textures (SVT): This helps make things look really cool and 3D in movies or games.
- Path Tracing of Heterogenous Volumes: This makes things look super realistic in movies and games, like how light and shadows work.
- Orthographic Rendering: This is for making things look stylish in the camera view.
- Skeletal Editor: This helps make animations in games better.
- Improved cloth simulation: This makes clothes and fabrics in games look more realistic.
If you’re a filmmaker who wants to use Unreal Engine for your movies, there’s a new update with some great additions. They added a thing called Cine Cam Rig Rail Actor that helps you make your camera move like it does on real movie sets.
And there’s also a better feature called VCam that lets you quickly check your shots on an iPad. With this update, you can also make action scenes look smoother by recording them in slow motion.
Unreal Engine 5.3 is out now, but it might be a little while before you can play games that use its cool new features. However, you can start using the latest version of Unreal Engine 5 by downloading it from the Epic Games Launcher.