Thank you!

It ran fine on my machine, but if you are talking about gameplay, then yes. I am focused on cinematics, not gameplay

I’ve been able to get a better PC in the last couple of years, but I did stuff like this on a lower end computer for years. It’s mostly just more time consuming.

Some steps maybe but I’d be hard pressed to see the industry suddenly put all its trust in AI in only a couple of years. It’s good but it’s not that good. And when it is, there will still be an adoption phase and I’m sure it will still need human input via parameters.

Shift A > Mesh

sorry i want to know how a can get it , i have 4.2 blender but not the addons extra mesh objets. do i need to by it on blender market ?

@matthiasparillaud8195 it comes with blender. It’s already available to activate in the add-on/extension page of the preferences.

Nah, it was just an unstable sim. It was the first Rigid body sim I ever tried in Unreal Engine.

@owenjenkinsofficial impressive sir 😉 I like it ✨

No worries this isn’t my prime work on fluid sims. It’s usually better, I was just on a tight deadline for this one.

😂

5.5 isn’t released yet so if you are using self compiled builds that great, but many have found that the instructions changed after ue5.1

Check out some of the other comments below

@@owenjenkinsofficial Same problem for me running 5.4. Can you point me to the current advice on this topic? Tried everything in this video, as well as all the suggestions on dynamic shadow distance, Distant fields, and far cascade settings, although I'm guessing those were applicable to previous versions.

I usually duplicate my project and delete the fluid sim, because sometimes it will try to recalculate the sims in the background when you play the timeline.

​@@owenjenkinsofficial Thanks, but unfortunately it's not better either way.

Sometimes alembics are unpredictable in blender tbh. They are working on that tho. I’ve seen tasks on their developer site in regard to alembic speeds. If the baked sim is faster, just use that!

@@owenjenkinsofficial Thank you! Maybe in the new 4.2 version, where I can find some missing add-ons already. BTW thanks again!

It’s moved to a different tab but it is still present. Let me check which one it moved to. I know it’s still there cuz I used it yesterday.

@@owenjenkinsofficial i found it, its under the xform tab now

If you are rendering in Eevee the shaders wont be able to do that.

@@owenjenkinsofficial yep that was definitely it 😅 thank you!

I think with the level of intentionality that a good lighting artist has, not yet, because you are making clear and deliberate creative decisions where as the AI can only rely on what it knows of lighting and may restrict itself to simpler, rule based stuff

Even with the newer ever next, there will need to be some improvements on realtime refraction before it would look this good in eevee. But it’s worth a shot. Give it a go and let me know how it turns out!

Unreal may not have a tool that can perfectly do it for all of them, like we can in blender. If anyone does know I’d love to know as well!

@@owenjenkinsofficial Hmm, good advice, I'll try it, thanks

Hi Owen sir I’m working on a simple animation project in Unreal Engine 5.4. It’s a 10-15 minute documentary-style video for KZbin in 1080p, featuring MetaHumans and city life scenes. I’m sourcing assets from Sketchfab and will do color grading in DaVinci Resolve 19. Since I’m not creating games, I’m focused on keeping Unreal’s size small and optimizing performance for smoother viewport and faster rendering. Could you make a video covering all possible ways to optimize Unreal Engine for animation projects like mine? It would be incredibly helpful to learn how to manage MetaHumans, streamline rendering, and keep the project lightweight. Thanks so much in Advance

@CGToonStudio I don’t know if you can reasonably fit all those things into one video but I could use them as inspiration for future videos. If I am honest, I am NOT an expert at optimizing file sizes and debugging projects. That’s probably the area I have the least experience in unreal engine. Most of my project files end up being pretty dang massive and I just migrate project files that are being used and then delete the old file with all the stuff I am not using. That’s the best way I know to keep file sizes small when it comes to storage. I have UE5 files that are like 100GB before I migrate them. 😂 but most do not get that massive. I usually just end up importing tons of assets and using them to kitbash and then use the migration feature to filter out all the unused data and delete it.

@@owenjenkinsofficial thank you very much for the response.

I got it on Amazon! It’s called the Casper Glow I think! It’s like a morning light alarm and reading night light that gets brighter or darker over time based on how you configure it! I love it!

Thanks! 😊 that will come in time

This was recorded with an older version of UE5 before it was swapped

Yes, it still reflects light

Does it really matter?

@@owenjenkinsofficial im using laptop, and i also want to do things like this. Mind if you’d share some tips? Currently i got i5 10th gen, 4gb 3050rtx, 8gb ram. Is the 4gb vid card enough? And if i upgraded the ram to 32 would it not bottleneck the 4gb vid card? Thanks

@Racio00 Industry minimum standard is 16gb ram and an 8GB vram card. You can get by for sure with lower than that. I have a laptop that works good and is 6GB vram and 32GB ram. I do recommend going higher. I do have a workstation too. But in the beginning it’s just about making stuff even if it takes a long time. Once you start earning some money, that’s an opportune time to upgrade!

@@owenjenkinsofficial do i also need to worry about frying my video card for extensive usage on blender? Thank you so much for this!!

@Racio00 not really i would assume blender would crash before it would become at risk of causing electronic damage

Can’t wait to see the reupload on your vfx render pass/layer tutorial! If anyone else is reading this, you definitely need to go check out Robin’s channel!