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📢Unreal Fest Session Lineup Reveal📢
The roster of sessions and speakers for Unreal Fest Chicago is now live!
Take a look at the teams and topics taking to the field in Chicago June 16-18, available now on the Unreal Engine website.
This week, we’re celebrating Indie Games and all of they ways they inspire, innovate and elevate game development🎮
Check out some of the fantastic indie projects that utilize Unreal Engine to make their visions for gaming a reality!
The creators of TerraTech Legion, @payload_studios, turned to the unrivalled flexibility of the Unreal Engine to realise their vision for the ultimate ‘bullet heaven’ experience.
The veteran devs opted for instanced skinned meshes to bring a frankly unreasonable amount of robotic destruction to players. Countless robotic foes. Customizable vehicle carnage. No complex engine changes.
“As an experienced team with plenty of veteran developers on-hand, we’re always looking to push boundaries and take on challenges in creative ways. Unreal Engine’s sheer flexibility and crucially, access to the full source code, has been critical in empowering our ambitions.”
“That’s been particularly important in our mission to add support for instanced skinned meshes. With TerraTech Legion’s focus on ‘bullet heaven’ mechanics, it’s imperative we get as many animated Legion bots on screen at the same time. It’s down to Unreal Engine’s adaptability that we’re truly able to deliver our vision of compelling chaos.”
“The runtime part of this was possible without the need for complex engine changes - just by using the flexibility of the material graph, including some custom HLSL nodes.”
“Having the ability to modify the editor c++ code was crucial for generating the data necessary for this. We transfer skinning information into static mesh UV channels that we aren't using, which then requires modifying the LOD generation code to preserve this data in LODs.”
“For animation, we use the low-level parts of the UE animation system running in parallel on the CPU and then pass the resulting transforms to the GPU in a single floating-point texture. A per-instance value passed to the mesh instances allows each instance to render with the correct animation.”
The creators of TerraTech Legion, @payload_studios, turned to the unrivalled flexibility of the Unreal Engine to realise their vision for the ultimate ‘bullet heaven’ experience.
The veteran devs opted for instanced skinned meshes to bring a frankly unreasonable amount of robotic destruction to players. Countless robotic foes. Customizable vehicle carnage. No complex engine changes.
“As an experienced team with plenty of veteran developers on-hand, we’re always looking to push boundaries and take on challenges in creative ways. Unreal Engine’s sheer flexibility and crucially, access to the full source code, has been critical in empowering our ambitions.”
“That’s been particularly important in our mission to add support for instanced skinned meshes. With TerraTech Legion’s focus on ‘bullet heaven’ mechanics, it’s imperative we get as many animated Legion bots on screen at the same time. It’s down to Unreal Engine’s adaptability that we’re truly able to deliver our vision of compelling chaos.”
“The runtime part of this was possible without the need for complex engine changes - just by using the flexibility of the material graph, including some custom HLSL nodes.”
“Having the ability to modify the editor c++ code was crucial for generating the data necessary for this. We transfer skinning information into static mesh UV channels that we aren't using, which then requires modifying the LOD generation code to preserve this data in LODs.”
“For animation, we use the low-level parts of the UE animation system running in parallel on the CPU and then pass the resulting transforms to the GPU in a single floating-point texture. A per-instance value passed to the mesh instances allows each instance to render with the correct animation.”
The creators of TerraTech Legion, @payload_studios, turned to the unrivalled flexibility of the Unreal Engine to realise their vision for the ultimate ‘bullet heaven’ experience.
The veteran devs opted for instanced skinned meshes to bring a frankly unreasonable amount of robotic destruction to players. Countless robotic foes. Customizable vehicle carnage. No complex engine changes.
“As an experienced team with plenty of veteran developers on-hand, we’re always looking to push boundaries and take on challenges in creative ways. Unreal Engine’s sheer flexibility and crucially, access to the full source code, has been critical in empowering our ambitions.”
“That’s been particularly important in our mission to add support for instanced skinned meshes. With TerraTech Legion’s focus on ‘bullet heaven’ mechanics, it’s imperative we get as many animated Legion bots on screen at the same time. It’s down to Unreal Engine’s adaptability that we’re truly able to deliver our vision of compelling chaos.”
“The runtime part of this was possible without the need for complex engine changes - just by using the flexibility of the material graph, including some custom HLSL nodes.”
“Having the ability to modify the editor c++ code was crucial for generating the data necessary for this. We transfer skinning information into static mesh UV channels that we aren't using, which then requires modifying the LOD generation code to preserve this data in LODs.”
“For animation, we use the low-level parts of the UE animation system running in parallel on the CPU and then pass the resulting transforms to the GPU in a single floating-point texture. A per-instance value passed to the mesh instances allows each instance to render with the correct animation.”

The small team at @Inferstudio and digital human platform @Impersonas used Unreal Engine 5, MetaHuman, and AI to blend stylized visuals, real-time production, and high-fidelity performance capture for ‘Daughter of the Inner Stars.’
We spoke to them about how they turned it all into a into a cohesive pipeline for the 50-minute original symphonic orchestral experience. Read the piece now on the Unreal Engine blog!

The small team at @Inferstudio and digital human platform @Impersonas used Unreal Engine 5, MetaHuman, and AI to blend stylized visuals, real-time production, and high-fidelity performance capture for ‘Daughter of the Inner Stars.’
We spoke to them about how they turned it all into a into a cohesive pipeline for the 50-minute original symphonic orchestral experience. Read the piece now on the Unreal Engine blog!
Ahead of their big release last week, we spoke to the team at Hotta Studio about their use of Unreal Engine in the development of @ntegame.official 🌃
Revisit our feature on the UE blog about how they attained the stylized, surrealist urban aesthetic and how they've brought their open world to mobile, PC and PS5!
Indie Games Week may be over, but our appreciation for the indies choosing Unreal Engine to help make their visions a reality is evergreen!
Revisit our full Indie Games Week Sizzle on YouTube, featuring countless exciting games built with Unreal Engine and its toolset!

We're closing April strong with some great free learning content to get your development moving.
Mobile performance, PCG, EOS, MetaHumans, and more await you, so jump in today on the Unreal Engine website!

We're closing April strong with some great free learning content to get your development moving.
Mobile performance, PCG, EOS, MetaHumans, and more await you, so jump in today on the Unreal Engine website!
Superpowered 3v3 tag fighter @InvincibleVS™ lands on Earth today🌎
In the event you missed last week's feature on it, you can still find out all about how the team at Quarter Up utilized Unreal Engine 5 to deliver visceral combos, special abilities, 60fps action and more. Just head on over the UE blog!
It's your last chance to grab Early Bird pricing for Unreal Fest Chicago, get your tickets for $649 - that's $100 off!
Don't miss your chance to experience Unreal Fest, Early Bird tickets are available until 11:59 PM ET April 30!

Back in March, We spoke to CEO and Co-Founder of @Bitfire.Games, Hans Oxmond, about how DarkSwarm delivers colourful and accessible co-op combat with the help of Unreal Engine
Gather your friends and head on over to the UE website to check out our piece on the small team's tactical objective-based extraction shooter!

Back in March, We spoke to CEO and Co-Founder of @Bitfire.Games, Hans Oxmond, about how DarkSwarm delivers colourful and accessible co-op combat with the help of Unreal Engine
Gather your friends and head on over to the UE website to check out our piece on the small team's tactical objective-based extraction shooter!

Back in March, We spoke to CEO and Co-Founder of @Bitfire.Games, Hans Oxmond, about how DarkSwarm delivers colourful and accessible co-op combat with the help of Unreal Engine
Gather your friends and head on over to the UE website to check out our piece on the small team's tactical objective-based extraction shooter!

Back in March, We spoke to CEO and Co-Founder of @Bitfire.Games, Hans Oxmond, about how DarkSwarm delivers colourful and accessible co-op combat with the help of Unreal Engine
Gather your friends and head on over to the UE website to check out our piece on the small team's tactical objective-based extraction shooter!

Back in March, We spoke to CEO and Co-Founder of @Bitfire.Games, Hans Oxmond, about how DarkSwarm delivers colourful and accessible co-op combat with the help of Unreal Engine
Gather your friends and head on over to the UE website to check out our piece on the small team's tactical objective-based extraction shooter!
By leveraging Unreal Engine 5, Hotta Studio crafted a stylized, surrealist urban aesthetic for the open world metropolis in ‘NTE: Neverness to Everness’.
Get into our feature on how the team used UE5 to create the open world metropolis of Hethereau across mobile, PC and PlayStation 5, it's live now on the Unreal Engine blog!
The qualifying for the @E1series Lake Como GP 2026 Presented by PIF kicks off tomorrow, with the race following on April 25. So, what better time to revisit our feature on how @Badass_Studios_XR are using Unreal Engine to redefine racing with their BadassXR platform?
From immersive AR experiences to real-time digital twins, a new generation of fans is becoming more involved than ever with powerboat racing. You can read our full feature on the Unreal Engine website!
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