🆕 Zhi Kang's "Level Streaming Hitching Guide" is the latest resource in TDR's Unreal Performance Optimization Learning Path on EDC! ✨ If you're working on realtime content in UE, this should definitely go on your reading list! dev.epicgames.com/community/le...

#UnrealFest Chicago is happening June 16-18 and the call for proposals is open between now and January 22nd! www.unrealengine.com/en-US/news/a...

It's BACK! Everything You Wanted to Know About Substrate (but Were Too Afraid To Ask), Nathaniel goes deep on the new default shading system in #UnrealEngine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqPa...

🆕📚 I've co-authored a new article on EDC with my colleague Simon Tovey about the latest update to Niagara Data Channels in 5.7: Access Contexts have replaced Search Parameters! dev.epicgames.com/community/le... #ue5 #unrealengine #vfx #visualeffects #NDC #niagara #release5.7 #realtimevfx

I need y'all to understand that I was well and truly excited for @codyjero.me's talk about SlateIM. Really empowering stuff for building your own debugging tools in #UnrealEngine. I file this under "Cool things in Unreal You should probably know about" www.youtube.com/watch?v=zilY...

Excited to share that I'll be speaking at GDC 2026! 🎉 The talk is all about collaborative skills for devs. Exact time/date TBD. Looking forward to March!! ✨ schedule.gdconf.com/session/soft...

When an Unreal 5.3+ game runs, it will immediately kick off precompilation of global shaders. You should wait for that to complete before starting the game, otherwise you'll likely get hitches. You do that with the NumPrecompilingPSOsRemaining node. #uetips

Another really important #UnrealEngine talk just went live, this one is about GPU Profiler 2.0 and the engine's RHI submission pipeline. Absolutely vital for anyone profiling their title, especially those who've relied heavily on the old GPU Visualizer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnbA...

Oh and also my accidental #UnrealEngine #PCG manifesto/introduction youtu.be/TbNZ4GKaTow?...

A new look for my Linktree, plus some new 5.7 materials and accessibility links! My little Sine node icon is now at home in a graph :> linktr.ee/shedoesartst...

A bounty of talks hitting the @unrealengine.bsky.social YouTube today. This one from Quentin at #UnrealFest Stockholm about interactive vines using Niagara is a great watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fmG...

If you're a tech artist or dev that works with Materials in Unreal, I'd highly recommend watching this new talk all about Substrate by Nathaniel Morgan! www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0h-... #unreal #ue5 #techart #materials #substrate #unrealengine #BSDF #slab #layers #new #unrealfest

Heads-up: In 5.7, the Package Project and Cook Content options are unselectable by default. You'll need to manually assign a platform for these before Packaging or Cooking. #unreal #ue5

🆕Today's a double-feature! I've also published a written version of the 5.7 content in my "Unreal Materials: New Features & Updates" on the Epic Developer Community: dev.epicgames.com/community/le... #unreal #ue5 #materials #techart

🆕 My presentation "Unreal Materials: New Features & Productivity Enhancements" from Unreal Fest Stockholm is live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYmd... It covers improvements in 5.6 and 5.7, plus a sneak peek into the future of materials ✨ #unreal #ue5 #materials #techart #unrealfest

📚 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

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?...

Here we go!! Unreal Materials: New Features & Productivity Enhancements @ 10:30am, Room 4

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...

Oh, right. I can just scale up the interface when I need to take screenshots for presentations (or when my eyes get tired). Neat. Edit > Editor Preferences > General > User Interface > Application Scale.

Just a few days left in the Mega Stack 'O' Jam! Submissions close on August 21st: itch.io/jam/mega-sta...

Unreal Fest Stockholm is sold out! 😯 Looking forward to meeting all the Epic folks. I heard Arjan Brussee himself is going to be there! He's famous! 🤩

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

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...

FLASH SALE!!! IndieCade Festival 2025 Game Submissions have reopened for one week only. Sale ends August 18th or when submission cap is reached! indiecade.com/submissions/ #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #deadline #submissions #limitedoffer #games #gamedesign

🔜 The full line-up for Unreal Fest Stockholm 2025 is now available... and I'm one of the speakers! ☺️ "Unreal Materials: New Features & Productivity Enhancements" - Exact details TBD, but you can take a peek at all the session descriptions on the event website! tinyurl.com/UnrealFestSt...

bug - something broken in a tech thing buggy - a way to describe tech that has bugs bugged - something or some place that has a secret microphone or camera planted in it for spying on people Whenever I read 'the code/game is bugged,' I get a lil tripped up 😅

📚 NEW article collection! The Epic TDR team was recently set up as an Organization on the Epic Developer Community, so now all of our presentations, demos, articles, and tutorials are listed in one convenient place!! Check out what we've made: tinyurl.com/EpicTDRonEDC

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!

To get Shader debugging working with RenderDoc as of UE 5.6: 1. Enable shader debug in UE (r.Shaders.Symbols 1, r.Shaders.ExtraData 1) 2. Specify the symbols path in Render Doc (Tools > Settings > Core > Shader debug search paths) 3. Restart RenderDoc #optimization #shaders #ue5 #unreal #tip

Another resource published by a colleague in the Dev Rel team at Epic: Animation Framework FAQ! dev.epicgames.com/community/le...

There's a new ⚡Performance Optimization⚡ learning path available now, put together by the Dev Rel team at Epic! dev.epicgames.com/community/le... #unreal #ue #optimization #performance #ue5 #unrealengine

⭐New tutorial published!!⭐ It's an Introduction to Niagara's Scratch Pad system (visual-scripted local modules)! It's about 30 pages worth of text, split into bite-sized sections with lots of pictures. If you find it helpful, please consider dropping a like on the page! tinyurl.com/IntroToScrat...

Here's another little UE tidbit: Hold Shift while expanding a section to expand all of its subsections at once. Same goes for collapsing sections. It's a quick way to control the granularity of what you see in places like the Details panel.

⭐ The World Building Guide v3 is live! ⭐ Includes per-feature definitions, subjects to master, good practices, pitfalls, limitations, use cases specific to world building with #Unreal Engine's World Partition system; a must-read when creating spaces in #UE! dev.epicgames.com/community/le...

Happy Friday! Here's a little UE tidbit: Typing a Cvar followed by a ? instead of a value will show helpful information about that CVar right in the console! It's an easy way to get explanations for each of the available values, and see how the value has changed.

It's published! ✨ Here's the article version of Beyond Average: How Tech Artists Can Make Games More Accessible, along with the recorded version of my livestreamed presentation! 45ish pages to read / over an hour of video content! dev.epicgames.com/community/le...

🗓️ Tomorrow (May 15th), I'll give a livestream version of my presentation "Beyond Average: How Tech Artists Can Make Games More Accessible" as a guest on Inside Unreal! Join in on YouTube at 11am PDT/ 2pm EDT ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYvZ...

Unreal Engine 5.6 Preview is available as of today! Lots of cool shiny stuff to try out in this one before the full release goes live. forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-eng...

✨ Livestream starting now! ➡️ I'll be on the 'Epic for Indies' Discord for the next hour or so, talking a bit about technical art, career stuff, and accessibility. Here's the link to the server if you'd like to join in: discord.gg/M2dHvYXKEC

🌸 The Epic For Indies Discord server brings in industry experts (publishers, specialists, Epic folks), tech discussions, and all sorts of resources every week to help indie teams! Here's the invite, if you'd like to join: discord.gg/M2dHvYXKEC

Unreal Fest Orlando is coming up soon! Check out all the cool sessions (over 190!) and grab your tickets here: www.unrealengine.com/en-US/events...

🎉 It's here! My GDC presentation 'Beyond Average: How Tech Artists Can Make Games More Accessible' is now available on the Vault! gdcvault.com/play/1035478...

Tickets for Unreal Fest Bali are now up for grabs! This is going to be so good and I'm super excited for the talk line up we'll be announcing pretty soon. It's really focused on upskilling to seniors so if you're an Unreal Dev in ANZ/SEA come join us! www.unrealengine.com/en-US/events...

A bit of a niche tidbit: The 'Bake Material Position Offset Into Collision' landscape feature depends on the grass.Enable cvar being enabled (set to 1) to work properly. #ue5 #uetips #landscape #cvar

📢 Update! The deadline has been EXTENDED to May 5th! Submit your cool games!

New resource from the Tech Dev Rel team!! Check out Euan's latest article, all about Animation Performance Tips & Tricks: dev.epicgames.com/community/le... #UE5 #TDR #article #unreal #animation #optimization

Last call!! #IndieCade submissions close this upcoming Monday, April 14th! form.jotform.com/250335043518...

If you want to quickly and automatically toggle between cvar values for comparison, use the abtest cvar! In the console command field, type in abtest followed by the cvar you want to compare and the two values you want it to switch between: "abtest r.ExposureOffset 0 0.5". When done: "abtest stop".

📚 A new set of resources for learning, using, and debugging the Gameplay Ability System (GAS) in #UE5! Your First 60 Minutes with GAS (beginner): tinyurl.com/First-60-min... GAS: Best Practices for Setup (intermediate): tinyurl.com/Set-Up-GAS GAS: Debugging Tools (any): tinyurl.com/Debug-GAS