We've made a lot of great improvements to the #UnrealEngine Material Editor in 5.6 and 5.7, and @shedoesartstuff.bsky.social talked about all of them and more at #UnrealFest Stockholm! Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYmd...

📚 I've updated my 5.6 Materials EDC article to include a NEW extra feature that didn't make it into the first version, and added some implementation details to a few of the other entries~ dev.epicgames.com/community/le... An article for Materials in 5.7 is in the works! #unreal #ue5 #materials

We just published "The Road to 60 fps in The Witcher 4 UE5 Tech Demo", where you can see how we got 300+ moving characters and 100k+ fully modeled trees and scrubs running at 60fps on a base PS5. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji0H...

A great talk by Alexis Argyriou from Unreal Fest Bali about performant lighting in UE on various hardware. #uetips www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1wh...

I think Nori might have put together the definitive guide on the Shader Complexity View Mode in #UnrealEngine in his talk at #UnrealFest Bali (spoilers: optimizing for that view mode doesn't necessarily result in performance gains) youtu.be/EjxK16koNfQ?...

So next time you wonder “What features does Unreal have that our internal engine doesn’t have? How can we compete?!” Stop thinking about features. Start thinking about community. The features are nice, but they’re secondary to the actual reason Unreal is being used so much.

If two gates are boarding at the same time right next to each other, all announcements should start with the destination.

Polar UVs are timeless way to achieve more with your tiling textures! Here is how to implement the cartesian to polar custom function material to achieve this effect #realtimeVFX #UnrealEngine #gamedev #VFX #UE5

My Unreal Fest Bali talk is live on youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xilL... If you don't wanna sit through the entire talk, here's a PDF version: victorcareil.com/unreal-fest-...

I was absolutely floored with how many folks fought tooth and nail to get in to see this talk.

I often get asked: "How do I host a good roundtable?" by folks who want to do their own. So I wrote an article explaining the whole roundtable process from start to finish: rystorm.com/blog/how-to-host-a-good-roundtable-at-at-conference Always remember: Iron fist, Velvet glove, folks rely on you!

I've just released version 1.1.0 of my #UE5 SDF Plugin. Now featuring some extra material functions, some basic materials and this nifty interactive explainer / examples / tutorial window Windows binaries for 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6 up in github github.com/rtm223/RTMSDF #gamedev #UnrealEngine

This is perhaps the most under viewed Unreal Engine video. If you use UMG in Unreal you should really give it a view, Adrienne killed it with this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NHI...

On my way to #UnrealFest Stockholm! Got a busy week lined up, and I’m excited about what I’ve got lined up to talk about. Automated performance testing, the PCG Framework, GPU capture analysis, and maybe even some tips and/or tricks?

Game devs: Show me your #BadgeBouquet

So, anyone got any cool jobs going haha? Interested in Tech Art, Lighting , Lookdev Unreal roles, remote from Adelaide, let me help you make pretty things!

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Blue Prince is consuming every fiber of my being. I woke up in the middle of the night because I’d solved a puzzle in my dreams.

TIL that NDC has a new method for querying particle data in BP :) The basic callback interface was severely limited. This looks much more powerful. Neat!

I get the allure of being a morning person. The high of reading a book over my morning tea whilst sitting on my porch and waving to my neighbors passing is unparalleled. It is mitigated, somewhat, by the crushing low of knowing this moment is fleeting, and I'll regress once the jet lag wears off.

Still after some small side gigs / commision work with the cost of living constantly rising, I do Hard Surface, Lookdev, FX, Lighting and general Tech Art, ive updated my portfolio of personal work here: www.artstation.com/dylserx #3D #GameDev #UnrealEngine #Houdini #Substance3DPainter

I’m on the road to #UnrealFest Shanghai! Since I love tweaking slides until I go on stage, I’ve got a couple of questions for ~ y’all ~ 1. What’s something you wish you knew what you started using Unreal? 2. What’s a debugging protip that has saved your bacon more times than you can count?

Visually debugging vectors and positions in Niagara is important, and it's easy to do using the built-in DrawDebug interface. You can also achieve this with sprite or mesh renderers, custom bindings, and a single custom module. 🧵

Oh hey! My Crash Course for New #UnrealEngine Developers is now live on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPkA...

I don't know how I missed this, but a cool video from UnrealFest2024 was published showcasing audio tips for indie dev teams, including working with Soundscape! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaMX...

The Unreal Fest Stockholm schedule has been posted! I'll be giving my talk about Unreal Materials on September 23rd at 10:30am in Room 4 ⭐ It's in the first batch of presentations after the Opening Remarks session; Here's the full agenda: unrealfest.unrealengine.com/event/470c5c...

Check out Range, my latest exploration of how far we can push a scene using Nanite Voxelization, 200 Trillion Polys Scattered with PCG on a 16k x 16k Resolution Houdini Landscape. #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #EnvironmentArt #NaniteFoliage #Cinematic

i have a fucking stupid game idea and really need a batshit insane technical artist to help me figure out part of it

GDC talk submissions are open and just wanted to point out to people that if you were planning to apply to talk at a summit (like indie summit, narrative summit, tools summit, etc.) that there's only one call for submissions now and it's only open for a month: gdconf.com/gdc-call-for...

An LLM does one thing, and one thing only: It emulates human speech based on the examples given. It cannot reason, calculate, think, or understand. It does not "know" anything, and you cannot assume that it's providing a correct answer to anything, since it's not trying to do so.

Here's a new article I wrote in collaboration with Epic colleague Jason Nadro, highlighting the latest quality-of-life improvements for the Materials system in Unreal Engine 5.6! ✨ dev.epicgames.com/community/le... Shoutout to the dev team for their great work!

What's that? You want MORE #UnrealFest? Great News! Tickets are now available for Unreal Fest Stockholm! It's September 22nd through 24th. Early bird pricing available now through July 31st! www.unrealengine.com/en-US/events... #unrealengine

GDC 2026 Call for Submissions opens July 7! If you want to submit a talk, check out my submission tips video: youtu.be/gxvKzx_W3Kc?... And if you prefer reading: rystorm.com/blog/5-gdc-t... If you have any questions, just ask. I'm always happy to help folks submit a great talk or roundtable.

Alright y’all, we’re starting the trek to #UnrealFest Bali! I’ve got a couple of cool talks that I can’t wait to share. And maybe this year I don’t lose my voice? No guarantees. Who all am I gonna see there?

Add native #Unreal property selector to your Editor Utility Widget with Single Property View widget. Here's full tutorial: medium.com/@TechArtCorn... #UnrealEngine #Blueprints #EditorUtilityWidgets #UE5 #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #UnrealEngine5

I hung out with Laetitia Pichot de Cayeux on top of a wooden pyramid during Richard Garriott's 2012 End of the World party.

PCG + Paper2D quick test :) #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev

There’s a lot going on, as ever, but I wanted to take a moment to say I had so much fun at #UnrealFest in Orlando! Big shout-out to our Events team for putting together another great show. And a massive thanks to everyone who attended, we do this for you and you make it great! Onwards to Bali!

If Unreal can switch to Y up, America can switch to the metric system.

Flying straight from my brother’s Bachelor party to #UnrealFest . Pray for me.

Them: Hey, whatcha playing? Is that poker? Me: You don't want no part of this, Dewey.

Some rules persist across platforms. I will always reskeet this.

We’ve still got tickets left for #UnrealFest Orlando, June 2–5! Covering a lot of ground with this show, including mobile game development, Chaos physics, building large open worlds, and more. Register here: www.unrealengine.com/en-US/events...

Once again I tip my hat to the person in charge of picking movies for Delta. Highlights include Road to El Dorado, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and Waterworld of all things.

Oh hey, looks like I’m gonna be talking about some weird Niagara stuff at #UnrealFest Orlando. Come hang out if you want to unlock ultimate #UnrealEngine Power! unrealfest.unrealengine.com/event/71f0bb...

I'm gonna have to frame this one.

I found a marginalia for @crowtoed.bsky.social

Early bird tickets for Unreal Fest Orlando 2025 are available until April 15 for $699 — a $200 increase compared to last year's Unreal Fest Seattle, which took place just 6 months ago. Students and Fortnite creators are eligible for a $ 100 discount.