EVERYTHING NEW IN UNREAL ENGINE 5.3

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Hello guys welcome back to another video. Yesterday Epic just released Unreal Engine 5.3 Preview 1! Which is the beta version of 5.3, publicly available to download on the Epic Games Launcher. And in this video, I will be telling everything new coming inside of Unreal Engine 5.3!
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[@SmartPoly]

Check out my Multiplayer Survival Game Course: smartpoly.teachable.com

[@Uhfgood]

I have this kind of addiction, where I tend to buy games I don't play (of course most of these are retro games, rarely do I buy a new game anymore), and this has spilled over into online courses, I couldn't resist buying the course -- even though I don't know if I've ever seen a video of yours. Hopefully I will be able to go through it. In any case, even though I'm not looking to build my own game that's a survival game, where you build stuff, and being open world, I figure if I learned how to do all of that, I could probably build virtually any kind of game in unreal engine that I wanted to. (I've had an idea for a single-player story-driven fps for years, and think I might could actually start developing it)

[@MCNeko6554]

@@Uhfgood I purchased the course about ~2 months ago and it's definitely what I was looking for: build a complete game from scratch that I can play around with as a learning experience without hunting down 1400 YT videos. I have also purchased other courses that promised a lot and delivered less than YT, and this is not that kind of course. The course is similar to any college course: you get out what you put in, and sometimes you have to go outside the course if you want to grow. By the end of the course you'll have a working multiplayer survival craft project like Ark Survival Evolved if you just follow along. 10/10 stars as a whole, but nothing is perfect. To make up for that, there's comments under each lesson that might help if you're stuck, and then the Discord has live support from other game developers for more complex issues. I 100% recommend the course if you're familiar with programming; ask yourself: what is the purpose of an enumeration, what is an abstract class, what is inheritance? If you know the answer, you're ready for the course without any problems. If you don't know how to program already, it may be more difficult to modify interactions to suit your needs at first, but you can literally just follow along and get a working project without understanding the big picture. If you decide to get the course, I'd recommend just following along to the end even though the game is not exactly what you're looking for, and then using what you've learned to make what you have in mind. The overall concepts will be the same.

[@ReggieBoles]

Is a Bow included in the 9 weapons tutorial? It is different than a rifle, for example, and it's hard to find a tutorial on that.

[@renatocretella5795]

Thats a good idea, just some more info about multiplayer, can you give some details? I'm looking for a course like this and im almost ready to buy it! And are you planning to adjust/upgrade for 5.3 and new PCG framework? THanks

[@lolesmole1985]

does your course work in unreal engine 5.3?

[@dhkatz_]

Epic is honestly genius for how much of the game development pipeline is slowly being added to UE5. The more your pipeline uses UE5 the more you are "trapped" within the ecosystem. If your modelling, rigging, texturing, etc. is all within UE5 it will be very hard to move away from it.

[@makoado6010]

all 99% of them proof of concept and not working...

[@kvark1073]

I dont think that you need transfer your pipeline to the other engine while any project. And also pipeline is so exclusive stuff for every project

[@alzearafat]

I'd rather use 1 tool than 56 different tools to make my simple game.

[@mossen98]

As someone who just makes small games for fun and never publishes them i want that. May be a lot too learn in one engine but it streamlines everything

[@sanyi9667]

you're RIGHT and I am afraid of it's future

[@LonePhoenix36]

Someday we will finally be able to modeling, rigging, texturing and animate a full 3D model inside Unreal Engine, without being forced to go through Blender or other 3D Modeling engine. I love using Blender, but exporting an animated and complex 3D Model from Blender to Unreal Engine 5 has always been a pain to me (A lot of glitches and unexpecting results) and I just wish Unreal Engine will contain a full 3D Modeling engine inside it.

[@tensor9470]

Would love to get more procedural landscaping tutorials that mix unreal with Gaea/Worldmachine or anything that lets you create vast open worlds for ue5

[@yomero243]

Neeed

[@slav3106]

Awesome news! I'm excited to check out the landscapes and rigging features. Looking forward to next videos. Thank you bro.

[@tardicrack4337]

The rig thing seems amazing

[@TwTales]

Not many people seem to know about how lighting pretty much doesn't work in orthographic camera. Can't wait to see if they fixed that in 5.3.

[@lancemarchetti8673]

A temporary work-around could be to use the Perspective Camera and adjust Field of View to make it look like orthographic. It's been 3 years this request has been going on... So yip.. Let's wait and see...

[@rodtronics771]

If you go to the roadmap you can see this is on it.

[@DignitGR]

Perfect.Take the course.Its one of the best out there worth every cent and will save you lots of learning time. Thanks SP🎉🎉🎉

[@VRDivision]

I'm really excited about PCG and VR updates, thanks for the greater video mate!

[@leolehane9988]

I'm interested in all of it tbh. I'm looking to get into building some games a stuff, so this is really exiting. 100% grabbing that course you set up

[@xjuliussx]

We are blessed to live such epic times!

[@taliesinsilvercrow9736]

im excited for landscape nanite support, because as someone with 16gb of ram, the nanite asset compression will help a lot with those bigger landscapes ( aswell as the lower gpu demand from higher res landscapes). also path tracing support for substrate is amazing! when unreal engine 5.3 comes out of preview, im going to love using substrate and pt together

[@ITAngel]

These look pretty amazing for sure. Great coverage on this update. Thanks! ***Question. The course you have do you plan to continue developing after it is done like adding additional stuff to the course that covers other tips and tricks / ideas etc...?

[@BaloopaOLD]

He has said that there will be additional things added to the course after.

[@tazz1226]

i love how u show ue5.3 features with ue5.2 videos !!

[@blackdevilcreations]

the most interesting thing is nit an asset or object feature.. it's the multiprocess cooking if content! This makes packaging the whole things so much faster..

[@3dtutorialsandquestions]

interesting in character animation updates, bones editing and skin weight painting

[@stormr]

Id like to know and see more about the updates to character and animations. Its not too difficult in 5.2 but id liked to see if its easier in 5.3. Plus some of the other skeltal mesh stuff you mentioned

[@AmitDiggaoo7]

I have never created a game with unreal. Still I see every release videos. In 5.0, nanite and lumen hooked me. Now I am waiting for 5.4

[@Birdisnear]

Thanks for this good content

[@milo20060]

Oh wow didn't know that they have tools for character creators. Will definetely check this one out!

[@cowsmanaut]

Tiled landscapes didn't go away... just changed a bit. There are issues with it reading them correctly and it's picky about naming conventions. It does it's best to autodetect when you choose on file from the set in a folder. Just be sure you don't have other stuff in the same folder.

[@ZetaGhozt]

Which software are you making your huge open world maps in? Thanks for the great vid!

Thanks. I am very interested in importing and editing large landscapes!

[@alekjwrgnwekfgn]

I like the look of your course. What I’m really looking for is how to implement a dialogue system with cutscenes a bit like AC Odyssey. It would be great to see a course that just pulls apart and repurposes the Lyra Starter content with a dialogue system.

[@AshEvansUK]

Checkout Narrative 3 plugin which focuses on quests and dialogues

[@GES1985]

Unreal 6 ought to have a built in ai assistant that can turn text prompts into usable blueprints

[@Real_MisterSir]

that needs to be in UE5 too at the pace of things, because man the one thing I dread the most is making node blueprints for everything.. If I could just tell an AI tool to "make triplanar seamless texture integration" that would be lovely

[@petertremblay3725]

Unfortunately we wont make it to UE6 before the whole world collapse and this is done on purpose by the billionaires since they tell anyone who will listen that we are too many and that 90% of us need to go before 2030! No conspiracy stuff here it's all on their official website but the gaming community is asleep but when reality set in in a few weeks the shock is going to get brutal!

[@JesterLegend4life]

​@@Real_MisterSirat that point just tell the AI to create a triple AAA shooter game.

[@coffeediction]

impressive!!

[@hotsauce7124]

Rigging!!! Cool

[@etchasketch222]

When showing off the 20km landscape, is that a content example epic provides, especially the flying character. I'd like to get my hands on that!

[@alienrenders]

I'll have to check out the rigging support and see if you can modify bone influences directly in UE. That would be great.

[@kvark1073]

yooo all this stuff with the level and landscape is excact update what I need right now😁😁

[@samuelkaspersen655]

Will you be updating the tutorial with the new landscape stuff? Im considering buying the tutorial. I do have a few questions before i buy though. Do you have a public discord to converse?

[@hasstv9393]

You sound was too low, anyway i just love your videos

[@PenguinTD]

They had pretty fast version up during the early days of UE4 as well, it didn't really slow down until maybe about 4.8? Then it picked up speed again around the 12~20. I don't expect them to slow down if they are pushing for more usable nanite/lumen/world partition combination. Substrate and PCG probably won't really be in beta until like maybe another year worth of development. I wonder if they can support actual spherical landscape for planet size(ie. you specify planet radius, then specify the area you want to create landscape on) with LWC, cause that was what the existing volume atmosphere + cloud was built on. Exciting future indeed, we won't have enough time to populate fun content on that huge world we can procedural generate. But to make the scale believable isn't that far fetched now. (seamless planet travel would be possible with LWC without visual tricks for loading.)

[@RagingGamingBear]

Awesome video but would love chapters

[@yearight1205]

I know cinematics isn't the focus of this channel, but I do learn a lot from you so am hoping you could help me. I use Unreal Engine for cinematic purposes. And traditionally if you wanted to make a slight adjustment to an animation in your scene, like lets say move the hand to align perfectly with something, you'd simply right click your character in the sequencer, edit with FK Rig, add an additive layer, and keyframe the first frame of the additive layer and you could make your adjustments. That has been how it's been done since UE4. But now in Unreal Engine 5.3, that is no longer the case. I can't find any information on this subject, let alone that they made this change. Could you help me with this?

[@alexandredasilva1857]

Hello. Great video. I'm starting in this Unreal world. I wanted to clear a doubt. Me creating a city-like environment, how do I do it or what do I use to make this city available for people to use it through browsers, like Google Chrome and walk around my city? Thank you very much.

[@red4666]

imagine being a small company that creates plugins for unreal engine, and then being invited to become an epic partner. then one day, they don't tell you when, they update unreal that makes your plugin obsolete lolll. what a partner!

[@notacop1477]

Hello, did you cover point clouds, especially rendering them in UE 5.2? Is there improvement on the Plugin?

[@noot2981]

Will the demo of the mannequin Iron Man-ing around be available at some point? That looks really cool to expand on

[@leobyrne4671]

Do you happen to know if the VR Editor Mode Tools have been put back in 5.3?

[@AKThem06]

why is no one talking about the new chaos cloth editor?

[@kevincantrell6295]

Do you cover game instances and moving health, etc to the next level?

[@wilismatrix9847]

this is cool but it would be better if they document their project demos and the blueprints well, everytime I face an issue or I want to do something I have to search in forums because they didn't document the blueprint nodes

[@ediskujovic898]

Thank you for the wrap up. Can I ask you how can I using 3ds max for years as a visualisation software jump to UE5 and replace my Displacment maps that I use for higher realism. I just could not manage to get that in UE5, modeling such details would be just a time waste

[@UnchartedWorlds]

Hi Poly, about the course, is it with version 5.2 or earlier version?

[@madar382]

it starts in 5.0.3 then he converts it to 5.1 and maybe in future to 5.2

[@shaunfuqua]

I need to really learn UE man

[@samuelkilik8233]

lets hope we can add more tiles or cells to our landscape like we did in ue4 world composition...

[@danishadnan8316]

For the people that are enrolled in his course is the material worth the price? Because I don’t really have money but I want to learn UE5 so if it’s worth it then Ill start saving up

[@kenalpha3]

Can you do a vid tut on 5.3 Cloth sim? And/or a vid on if they fixed/how to fix Retarget 4.27 anims to 5.2/3 Skeletons? (Another dev said there is a 5.2 bug with retargeting 4.27 Market anims to 5.2 skel.)

[@viktorianas]

Alrighty... I will wait for UE9.0 and will start learning then.

[@megachill]

Please show us how to make truly huge landscapes once that new system hits, eg 100km2 etc

[@SmkAslt]

Honestly I used to find the new updates exciting....now it's just overwhelming. I'm sure if I had your skills it wouldn't seem so much so, but as someone who started trying to learn after ue5 released....I already feel like understanding how to build games is hard enough because there is so much in the engine. And now there's even more.

[@Rubbish_Man]

just imagine the possibilities

[@KiwiHawk-downunder-nz]

Does this mean we could re-fit or import a fitted armour set or clothing set and assign it to a, say Metahuman skeleton for use on MedtaHumans? without spending a heap od the like's of Srapper?

[@ronald8812]

@SmartPoly I was very interested in your Unreal Engine Multiplayer Survival Game course, I wanted to know if there are subtitles or translations for Portuguese/Brazil?!!. and if you don't have it yet, do you intend to put it in this year 2023? please help me, i really want to buy your course and start studying unreal engine

[@MCNeko6554]

I just checked, and yes there are Portuguese subtitles, but I can't say if it's 100% accurate or on every single video. It's at least available up until chapter 17, lesson 202 from what I can tell. SP will probably update the translations well before you get there since that's almost at the end of the course.

[@PraiseAllahu]

@SmartPoly is the course on Udemy?

[@thedoctor5478]

Is it feasible to do actual spherical planets somehow with nanite landscapes?

[@DodgerEcho]

I would really like to see how they solved the problem of importing a large landscape map and consuming a huge amount of RAM at the same time, and of course the conversion to HLOD does not work on a large landscape.

[@benflightart]

It seems like the majority of improvements are geared towards making Nanite and Pathtracer more compatible with all of the other systems they have added and improving interoperability. I just wish they would expand the supported hardware and software that both can run on. DX11 and apple silicon support would be very nice.

[@FNPivvot]

As far as I'm aware DX12 is a requirement for Nanite and Lumen because DX11 just simply doesn't have the features that would allow those systems to function. It seems they're making strides in Apple silicon support, but I honestly wouldn't hold my breath for DX11 support any time soon or if ever.

[@benflightart]

@@FNPivvot oh Lumen works without DX12. Nanite doesn't.

[@FNPivvot]

@@benflightart Interesting, I'm curious how they achieved that. At least on Fortnite the use of Lumen requires DX12 (or it did the last time I played), but perhaps that was more of a stability thing than an actual technical limitation.

[@dimaferox5133]

AR will be fixed or 3 versions of the broken black screen?

[@krinodagamer6313]

Nanite Tessellation IS HUGE, THIS IS WHAT IMPACTS PERFORMANCE HAVING AN AI TO DO IT IS A GAMER CHANGER

[@SandyM1993]

Funniest meme I've ever seen, because I know. I paused it at 0:10 and LMAO!!!

[@NicolasSilvaVasault]

already a preview of 5.3? that was fast

[@zeon3d755]

How would you enable CookMultiprocess and set CookProcessCount during cooking?

[@NextWorldVR]

We finally get true Multi-Layer Anisotropic Specular Highlights in Unreal Engine, like in 3ds Max!

[@yumri4]

What comes close to this is Blender 2.62 as they removed the game engine ins 2.62a. Right now the version you see on the front page for Blender is 3.6.1 and the game engine add-on might or might not work with it. Unreal engine 5.3 is much better for making games as it is the focus of Unreal Engine while Blender is much better at making meshs, shaders, and rigging. The rest that they both do is subjective to the user. The pipeline for many has been make and rig in Blender than export into fbx then import into Unreal Engine. It does bake the procedurally made node output into a material to be an image instead of procedural generation but that is normal in optimization anyways.

[@borrowedtruths6955]

What would be nice would be if they would finally figure out how to get the metahumans to work efficiently before they move on to another update.

[@basshead.]

That's cool. But where are the quality games?

[@rremnar]

There's no such thing any more 😆

[@dcruz742]

can you make a free tut on game making in UE 5.3 on youtube with weapon system

[@oskarwallin8715]

I cant get a tiled landscape to import anymore.. everything is a "invalid resolution" and causes Engine crash when forcing an import.

[@furanduron4926]

Futureeee...

[@vlweb3d]

Epic should just make their own Full 3D Modeling Program and get it over with.

[@FPChris]

I'm looking for a course with up-to-date open world work flow for open worlds like AC Odyssey where you have large land masses and bodies of water.

[@MangaGamify]

Will Nanite work on mobile now? or professionally speaking, Will Nanite have mobile support now?

[@vegitoblue2187]

That needs an ssd to function AND takes massive space so not for a long time

[@simonkennedy6116]

I'm looking at film production

[@the-secrettutorials]

Does somebody know if they made the Apple version less buggy?

[@3BEEZ]

This is great but no sooner you go through the extreme pain of migrating your project out comes a new version 🤦🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️😊

[@V-A-N-G-U-A-R-D]

Exactly. I feel like I just migrated to 5.0.3 yesterday.

[@pietlebrun5943]

UE5 is absolutely great for experimenting and seeing what the future holds, however every game developer I know who is working on a game to be published in about a year from today is developing their game in UE4. Because simply Nanite, Lumen, and the overall complexity and unoptimization of UE5 just isn't ready for the current hardware that most people have. Not to mention that the quality of the Lumen is absolutely poor compared to the quality of the baked light - especially indoors, the Lumen looks terrible, not to mention the various flickering and artifacts that Epic has known about since UE5 Early Access and still hasn't been able to fix. Of course, Lumen has dynamic lighting and that's an undeniable advantage over baked. And about Nanite - you don't need it if you're willing to model honest low poly models and bake normal maps.

[@kenalpha3]

I'm deving for UE4.27 and dont want to move to 5x for reasons you stated (and bugs in general that I heard of). But I would move to 5.3 if cloth sim works well (and just not use Lumen lighting nor Nanite for my game).

[@vegitoblue2187]

​@@kenalpha3and Cpp 20 is really something I wanna check out

[@Rick_Jagger]

100%, but it's always the same, new version, new hype, new bugs (will be ignored ofc). The most "devs" just go with every new update (even experimental) without spending even minutes to test everything out. Then a few weeks later they cry in the forums because something isn't working, but they put already "so much" work in their project, there is no way back. Stick with UE4 until UE5 is stable and is as performant as UE4. You can always upgrade, but never downgrade. I always tell people but they don't care. See Satisfactory, they thought upgrading to UE5 would be a good idea and guess what? Worse graphics and half FPS compared to the UE4 version.

[@V-A-N-G-U-A-R-D]

Agreed. However, I'm in UE 5.0.3 and I haven't migrated up since. No nanite for me. I've managed to work around Lumen by manually adjusting global illumination for every interior I have, which is a hassle, but the having to learn the advanced input and other things are putting me off from the later engines. Beautiful stuff, but I'm publishing my game this year in 5.0.

[@kenalpha3]

@@V-A-N-G-U-A-R-D The benefit of Enhanced Input is it is an asset now, meaning when I switch projects or get a Market project - I dont have to remake all my named Actions (that are in my real project). Since now I could just copy (Migrate) and IA asset to the new project. (In 4x, there's an old way to hax INI files and copy Named Actions to the INI of the new project. But it's slower.) Also the new Input Trigger nodes have better conditions for Hold key, etc. [watch?v=nXJuXUxQfa8] RE Lumen. Everytime I load UE5.1 it asks me to install the new DirectX. And I dont want to install anything new (that may change my system). So I cant even benefit from Lumen atm. But I want 5x for the new AnimBP nodes that blend anims.

[@homemetalstudios759]

was going to say, i don't have my 1st level in 5.2 completed yet. geez unreal, slow it down a notch would ya

[@MrHannessie]

Still no Stereoscopic 360 video, native without plugin?

[@Spookysart]

Finally someone dealing with the same issue I have for years now. nothing no easy way of doing it

[@ghelonajie1972]

FINALLY WE CAN MAKE A CHARACTER BY OUR OWN

[@chomnansaedan4788]

Ark 2 is going to be insane with all this new tech. I hope they utilize it.

[@meta.hariharan]

0:09 me learning unreal engine 5.1.1, unreal engine releases 5.3 preview

[@uchennaosimiri-bp7oj]

make a game tutorial with unreal engine 5.3

[@walerynio6863]

Hi, do you think that a survival game like ARK can only be created using a blueprint? I'm a beginner, but I don't think so because the blueprint isn't really good when the game contains a lot of physics and complicated ai. I also don't know if it would be suitable for a multiplayer game. Can someone tell me what are the boundaries of the blueprint? Chat-gpt told me that bp is more suitable for prototypes and not for complete games. But they can create smaller, undemanding games

[@joshmiller5374]

The whole “blueprint is for prototyping” thing is pretty much nonsense. I prefer C++ myself because it’s way more organized and flexible, but there’s no reason you can’t find a way to make whatever you want in blueprint. It truly comes down to how you prefer to work

[@walerynio6863]

@@joshmiller5374 I'm trying to make a horror game... where there will be mechanics: press these letters to open a gate for example. Then I wait for a vision (hallucination) to appear at certain moments and then find fuel and add it to the generator. I don't know if it is very difficult for BP... but it will probably be difficult to create.

[@xaby996]

​@@walerynio6863😂blue print can do anything. Just start simple. 1 thing at a time.

[@walerynio6863]

@@xaby996 Well, I know that everything can be done using BP, but the game will probably have a performance problem 😭

[@JDAeroVR]

I tried importing 32K of landscape. Failed. Not sure the importing very large landscapes is in this preview. It shows the feature greyed out in the roadmap while others were in color. Going to be upgrading the RAM from 128 to 256 GB.

[@dobrx6199]

Upgrading from 128gb 😳 I only have 32 lol

[@SmartPoly]

was it a single heightmap or tiled?

[@goldkat94]

If you have 1px per m² your next error message will be "not enough vram" when importing the heightmap. Hopefully these problems are gone with the new update. Imagine to fill a map with pcg on 100x100km² with an RTX3060 running smooth.

[@JDAeroVR]

@@SmartPoly Single

[@JDAeroVR]

@locateli6 SSD, 5950x - 16 cores, DDR4 3200, RTX 3090 - 24GB RAM

[@krinodagamer6313]

Damn already 5.3 jesus

[@SmartPoly]

my thoughts exactly

[@SixR6s]

rip for destruction stuff..

[@GavrielShaw]

interested in digital twin world building

[@anonym439]

0:08 me rn

[@N0melo]

Unreal will replace all CGI Software 🎉🎉🎉

[@Arthr0]

I just updated to 5.2 and worked on a new project, and when i restarted it says update to latest verion. Me be like - wtf I just downloaded the latest version

[@madaddewelik2094]

голосую за создание скелета!!

[@tmxart9171]

😳

[@ARTEMEX]

Всё же UE 5 божественный движок 😮

[@arthemos4627]

All nice features. Would be nice have a version where they focus exclusively with all bugs that make sometimes your workflow a nightmare. Also a better way to manage UI with more personalization would allow to have a faster user experience. Wouldn't require great effort in programming.

[@BarryLester]

still using 5.1.1

[@popthiccle1158]

epic games is updating unreal faster than I can learn this sh*t istg😂

[@prathamreddyzindabad9176]

Will you make free tutorials ❤

[@Flowrazornapalm]

Just getting the hang of UE4.. This seems way too much for me