EVERYTHING NEW IN UNREAL ENGINE 5.4

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Hello guys welcome back to another video! Epic Games just revealed Unreal Engine 5.4 at the State of Unreal during GDC. Along with with the reveal they published the Unreal Engine 5.4 Roadmap and in this video we will be taking a look at everything new coming to unreal engine 5.4. There are loads of new features to rendering, animation, and much more!
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[@SmartPoly]

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

[@keithfrechette8058]

Any chance you'll be adding VR (PCVR and or mobile) support to this? That's my big struggle right now: creating a good-looking, well-optimized world suitable for PCVR and/or mobile.

[@shokew2241]

Is your course 5.4 yet? does not say on website.

[@Test-xt3ys]

@@shokew2241 of course not, 5.4 is not out yet lmao

[@MisterKaroi]

I wish you had a Tycoon/Simulation game course.

[@user-ub8du2rs3r]

I am curious, but the site says 90,000 members, which I believe you took from your (at the time) KZbin subscribers. A bit misleading and false advertisement, for those who believe they will have members going through the course like themselves. I'd be more clear and honest with your potential customers on that point, but looks like a good course otherwise.

[@Tom-xi6gj]

going from a third person template with only idle, run and jump animations to motion warping + 500 animations is really incredible, the lower the barrier to entry for Indies, the more chance of a breakthrough gem. If time is money and money is tight for indies then the time savings accrued is invaluable.

[@AtomicPatriot]

Truly, I am trying to make a game and that would make it so incredibly easier to handle.

[@kaykayyali]

As true as this is, I feel that what will really happen is it will be harder to make a game that stands out from the sea 1.99$ half baked asset flips that will come from this. (No fault to UE or those profiting)

[@Real_MisterSir]

@@kaykayyali So basically we're just returning back to the era of "buy the game after you try the gameplay experience". I see that as a win

[@xaby996]

Keep in mind these animations are not going to come out until later this year. Separate from the release of 5.4

[@jlopez4889]

@@Real_MisterSir We probably aren't. It's more like there are going to be so many games released that hardly anyone can make a good profit unless they are lreally, really good at marketing.

[@phantomabid]

That character motion sample thingy is what we need for our games to give them a life after Rockstar Games patent-ed their procedural character motion system for the GTA VI. Hoping your tutorial on the sample coming soon! Can't wait to use it...

[@SmartPoly]

I believe they will release it when 5.4 officially releases!

[@imclueless9875]

Seriously every update UE puts out just gets better and better, mind blowing the amount of ease of access they keep giving out for free. Truly making it easier for devs of ALL types and smaller teams to get things done. By far THEE BEST engine.

[@GameDevAraz]

its only gonna get better since thats the direction we intend to move

[@hazemsy2797]

Well, they make money by devolepers making games using their engine.

[@GameDevAraz]

well, thats not always the case lol, if you look at other engines their not doing as much, partly because they just offer an engine and do nothing else. but unreal has created many games, one of which is fornite, which is very popular title@@hazemsy2797

[@billy-bg9rx]

I've been learning UE5 and Blender for the past 3 months straight. All I can say about the animation thing is WOOOOOOW that's beautiful.

[@NeilDonkin]

Me too. Do you rig and animate your models in Blender or UE? I'm beginning to favour UE, since importing Blender files into UE can be painful.

[@Skylar.H93]

​@NeilDonkin I've been practicing a lot in Blender for it. I haven't tried Unreal, how difficult is it compared to Blender?

[@laurensdesmet70]

For your survival course, it would be great if you included the motion warping functionality.

[@Unreal5Dev]

Every time there's an update to UE I always get excited! Thanks for the update to the game course. I'll be doing that one again!

[@present_artist1033]

Thank you for a free remaster! I purchased and was just about to begin, but happy to wait for these amazing updates!

[@stereochips]

Unreal Engine truly transforms itself into an all-purpose tool. The developers are working hard!

[@Inugamiz]

You going to remaster your survival course???? What a great day to be alive. Please include this new motion warping. Im going to wait until 5.4 release and restart my learning.

[@MCNeko6554]

Super excited about that animation update and your remastered version of the course. I love what you cover already, but I am looking forward to the listen server content and revisions with the new version of UE. 💜

[@spuffles2104]

Oh my god this is gonna help so much especially the pathing template and the SHADERS AAAAAAAAAAA

[@NoobahSteve]

every time i see new unreal news i get hyped lol. great video btw and also i own your course which is awesome! have not finished yet but so far its been a blast and hearing you are going to redo it for the next unreal update has me super excited. I do have one question pertaining to the updated course. would you consider showing how to implement true first person? That would be amazing.

[@BooneyTune]

It's crazy how fast things change.

[@Spawns_Lil_hope]

Looking forward to the 5.4 Remaster. Thank you so much!! I appreciate you

[@NINETY-97-SEVEN]

That new free template for animation motion matching is insane. As a noob in unreal engine this is very nice!

[@YourBoiKesaka]

hello im a big fan keep up the good work

[@njs-tv6565]

wait , so the physics update isnt just for UEFN ? networked physics for static mesh pawns outta the box would be an amazing dream

[@terricon4]

Though for anyone testing it out right no, just a heads up when you migrate older projects from 5.3 into it, animation graph references may be broken. Such as the time remaining or ratio of time remaining nodes that I often use to tell when a transition animation finishes... the nodes there, no errors, still lists the actual animation, but it wont be triggered or fire. So if you migrate over and things seem broken on animations or stuff, go and manually create new nodes for these and some other things and that should fix it. For the most part the only real issue I've noticed so far. They will hopefully have that fixed by the time it goes live for for early testers messing around in it now, especially given the animation focus of this one, this might save some people some time and frustration I figure.

[@kenalpha3]

Why are those nodes broken? Can you post this at the UE forum so we can have a better discussion location/answers?

[@john38825]

It really feels that 5.3 just came out, its great to see so much progress being made

[@Emily-jd2sh]

CAN WE TAKE THE TIME TO THANK SMARTPOLY FOR HAVING A SUMMARY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE VIDEO. THAT'S HOW KZbin SHOULD BE DONE! 💯

[@kenalpha3]

Amen and ty pilled. Pro KZbinr.

[@MoonDraconian]

Looks awesome, thanks for the indepth information! Looking mostly foward to the open world thing and have this in VR in a few years... Oasis is a step closer again with this update.

[@Mxrasaki]

Unreal engine truly is the gift that keeps on giving

[@nmddiez6374]

I am waiting for your tutorials on those

[@slumsnake1303]

Thats amazing. Especially the animation features.

[@gemmabear83]

This is glorious! Cannot wait for UE 5.4 or the Updated Course! April is going to be LIT!

[@FinGeek4now]

I would love to see a meta-human GPT AI assistant for the Vision Pro, especially if the avatar/AI could perform secretarial tasks too. It would take some work to get the real-time animations to work I suspect.

[@slyu2627]

Nice! Waiting Texturing Tools UE 5.4 please!

[@davidedemurodominijanni9889]

It took me a lot to clean some disk space for UE5.4 Preview and it's now installed. I'm blasted. I was scared as hell with my concern my rig would get killed but shading compiling was much faster indeed but most importantly didn't push my GPU to 100% longer than a few second to stay on an average 94% throughout the whole process. What a relief when the editor was running.... and there's so much I'm already loving... my concern about retargeting was blown away by the simplicity and the new features for UI interfaces design features almost overshadowed my hype for the "snow+footsteps on snow" feature and the painting on mesh features. I really hope things go s well as it seems leading to. I really hope all this will impact on my current creative difficulties giving me new enthusiasm I was quickly losing because of all the struggles. Specially my issues with creating my very own locomotion system, which is keeping me and my projects stuck going in circle with no improvements. I feel a mind blowing wind of change now, next step... installing that template and making my own experiments. PS: Thanks for illustrating all the new features... it pumped me up!!! Update: I've just got my very 1st editor's crash while opening the skeleton but the restart was so quick {not only it didn't recompile the shaders but rather took just a few seconds!} I feel like nothing bad happened. I dunno if I can take it as reassuring or as a first alarm... I guess I'll find that out soon when trying to do more complex stuff.

[@playingwitharyan5818]

so excited! when do you think the remaster of your course is coming out? I bough tit last year but couldn't go through with it. I can start again with the reamster now!

[@litjellyfish]

What I love is that they don’t just chunk out new features but focus as much on the tool / production pipeline. What is so great is that maybe in a few year unreal is a complete content creation package. Sure more specialized software will still exists who then can output data that unreal can import. But even so now soon most of that data can in simplified way not just be imported but also edited inside unreal. The iteration loops gets so much smoother which is not just about production speed but also about being closer and closer to affect and see the result directly. Also with more and more AI assisted tools this will allow innovation to take place much more. (And speed up where innovation is not needed or wanted )

[@g3nius]

I am really excited about 5.4 and i got your course. Hope the first person shooter will be available soon.

[@xxalucard66xx]

1:46 Glad I already got the course lol.

[@TakiGamesOfficial]

Nice! The animation stuff is exciting. I might have to update my project. Ever since UE5 came out the IK retargeter has been a pain. I would have to either use a third party retargeter from the marketplace or use ue4 based animations, retarget in 4.27, then migrate. Sometimes sellers will provide preset IKs that could work with multiple models, but overall it’s a mess. I also love the motion warp system. It’ll make things easier in terms of locomotion. All those parkour and motion warping assets will become redundant.

[@rabbit1g237]

Unreal is the Best ✅

[@trumpstuck5830]

No. Your mom is the best.

[@ipadize]

Its unreal how good it is

[@WeAreNIM]

OMG UI SCALING!!! FINALLY!!! MY POOR EYEBALLS HAVE BEEN POOLING OUT OF THEIR SOCKETS FROM SQUINTING AT THOSE TINY FONTS FOR YEARS!!! 😭

[@MrIlleatyourcookies]

these are some fun, fun additions to the engine. I hope you'll make a video helping us noobs figure this animation stuff out!

[@3v3rb0t]

I think you misspoke. If it came in motion matching. Motion warping fills in the gaps and we've had that technology for a while, but motion matching is what was being worked on by Ubisoft for a really long time and now it's being adopted. Industry-wide. Think of it like procedural animation.

[@CarsonFrench]

This is so hype

[@AkaSkooSkoo]

How long will your course be on sale? and if I buy it now will I get the new updated course

[@Joonee668]

this is gonna make my life so much easier

[@adorethered]

I can't wait for the animation tools! Now if they can develop the modeling system more, and maybe start building a procedural texturing/texture paint system to eventually replace maya, zbrush, and substance, it'd be an insanely holistic system. Which seems like the direction they are delving into over time. Maybe that's what ue6 or 7 will end up being like.

[@lyravisionmusic]

Is the 500+ animations part of preview or will that come later? Great recap. Looking into your course.

[@SmartPoly]

they haven’t released it yet, probably when 5.4 comes out officially

[@tjrizvi251]

Bummer. Was really hoping I could pry into that a bit before updating.​@@SmartPoly

[@pascalmariany]

I just purchased your course. As a game developer teacher on a university I needed to upgrade my skills. I’m looking forward to the 5.4 update!

[@skiez7430]

how is it going? i thought about buying it but it feels too long

[@pascalmariany]

​@@skiez7430 It's a very good course. Worth the money!

[@pascalmariany]

@@skiez7430 It’s an excellent course! I’ve started it and it doesn’t seem too long.

[@xXESproductionsXx]

This is amazing! I wish they would add LiveLink Mocap for Android at some point.

[@SamuTheFrog]

Unreal Engine is insane dude. The power they keep placing in the creators hands is just insane.

[@joshnevel1504]

Thank you

[@valzeia9074]

I have a question. I just started my UE journey and I'm using UE 5.3 and following your tutorials on how to use blueprints and stuff. Would I be able to switch to 5.4? Or should I stay on 5.3 and go through all of the tutorials on there until I'm finished with that?

[@Chromixxxx]

Amazing

[@gnoel5722]

Man, unreal is not only going for the best game engine, they are also speedrunning to create a single software that can do everything. This is great news for Indy devs who don't have $5K every year to drop on softwares. Full animation system = no more need for Maya, Full texturing system = no more need for Substance painter, Full modeling system = no more need for Zbrush, Full retargetting system = no more need for retargeting software/pluggings, Full biome PBR system = Rust 2 ( the game) can now be made in Unreal 🤣

[@gemmabear83]

This 100% I am so excited to see them implementing such amazing updates! Not that these programs aren't amazing in their own rights, they are, but the costs to even do a monthly subscription to some of these is rough af.

[@romanNood1es]

This sounds amazing. I’m just a simple Blender user, so I don’t know all this stuff. I want to begin dabbling in Unreal and check their new animation stuff.

[@threatlevel_TACO]

Does twin motion automatically update when i update UE? If that makes sense. Still learning these things.

[@akzork]

I want to say a big thank you to Epic for the free animations.

[@Mnerd7368]

So, UE 5.4 is all about Animations update. That's good cause Animations is a nightmare and frustrating to work with and great improvement that I am glad Epic Games do listen to the devs. I have some experience in Animations and rigging that i forgot since several months ago that i did my projects that I still have and still learning Animations. 😅 I have basic to intermediate experience in animations in 3D characters and 2D pixel characters in UE 5.3.2.

[@AdamWoolnough1981]

His survival course is very good for the price and I'm sure it's coming out again soon redone with all the 5.3+ updated ways of doing things, I've been doing it for 4 months(with full-time job/wife/kid), I've learnt a lot and now doing my own things building a game the way I would like it, he helped me learn and understand the way things work together

[@Susuer]

If the remaster class will use Motion Matching, it would be amazing!!

[@Kirill-Relax-Studio]

amazing! is there any information about the release date of version 5.4?

[@NOLA_playmaker]

Will the new animations and other stuff work for VR?

[@user-ew4ut5mu1f]

Great news :) when can i get your survival game course fitting into Unreal 5.4? and is there any upcoming tutorial for translating from blueprints to Cpp?

[@Athasin]

Support for Motion Matching, finally!

[@Red_Paper6495]

I don't understand about the motion animation. Does this work only with a set from Epic or can I provide my own animation set too?

[@gamedev6069]

Amazing news 😱

[@alhusseinali]

Unreal becoming unreal!!

[@marcapouli7805]

Is motion warping can be a good alternative (even better) to the ALS v4? Can't wait to try it!

[@HBasch]

any idea when the final will be released?thanks

[@zeon3d755]

where to get the motion matching animations? Is it available yet/

[@stmelidonis]

Do we know when this sample project will be released?

[@carlosrivadulla8903]

This is the only software that makes me feel safe from AI and I can learn it without the anxiety of being pursued by a monster.

[@Freznosis]

Just be careful of all the AI crap flooding the marketplace. Found lots of stuff not using the “created with AI” tag.

[@trumpstuck5830]

When the service centre tell you don't worry, is the time you need to start worry. Small boy.

[@yogapaule]

That’s a very passive approach. Adjust to it or you will be fucked

[@tjrizvi251]

Every second you're not running, I'm getting closer, Carlos

[@Spacemarine658]

​@@yogapauleno thanks others can do so I want my game to be authentically me not AI gen'd garbage

[@Steve-O1992]

Funny coming from blender and looking for features like displacement and couldn’t figure it out and now just finding out it was never in URE. wild stuff

[@crypt_exe8709]

So you can use mesh as collision for clothes now? No more simple shape setup? could be a huge Win

[@WarcloneRPG]

5.4 is up go get it devs!

[@ab3hi]

I been here since 1k subs

[@ssuversa]

so i can package a project on the 5.4 preview verssion or no ?

[@tehf00n]

What really blows my mind is I've been waiting years for Motion Matching based on mode adaptive neural networks. Ever since SIGGRAPH showed it in 2018. I have asked on the forums about getting it added and back then it wasn't a priority but to see it appear now really impresses me. Animation has always been one of the slowest parts of gaming, especially cinematic games, and now it's going to be a breeze.

[@MrVisualDesine]

i didnt hear anything about water? will they be updating or fixing there water plugin,

[@psy237]

i wonder how many coworkers they have that are working on the engine.. UE's so ridiculous. thanks for the great overview!

[@zevac]

5.4? Jesus, we're almost halfway through UE5

[@speedwaylabsdev]

😂

[@Archangel657]

How difficult would it be to make a 3d ship type game with unreal engine?

[@WorldOfPoly]

When will the the new course release?

[@derdugati7126]

Oooff. I just have to sit down and let this going through my brain for processing .. damn. XD

[@killrblue]

Where is the motion matching demo? I can't find it

[@xaby996]

Native support for mixamo Retargeting? It's been a long time coming

[@stormolflak]

If players could play the motion camera like a vr game without a head set, that would be cool!

[@valtzar3200]

Question: We can get away with importing characters with no skeletons right into unreal an do the whole rigging work inside the engine?

[@AtomicPatriot]

I was wondering that as well

[@SmartPoly]

I believe you can now rig characters in-engine with the skeletal mesh editor and add bones and weight paints. They are essentially making it so you don't have to go to any external program, and adding all the tools you need inside of the engine

[@valtzar3200]

ill yake that as a Yes 😃

[@kenalpha3]

@@SmartPoly so do they have a [build your skeleton arms/legs] Presets for both UE4 and UE5 (which has extra twist and spine bones)? Can you do a video on why UE5 skel has extra spine and twist bones, then explain which should be used going forward? (Because I have paid UE4 anims.. 90% of my collection. But now UE5 is out and it's easy to retarget. So which skel format should the future use; is it worth it to convert a UE4 anim collection to UE5?)

[@chillwill7]

Does anybody have any recommendations for the best laptops to use the newest versions of unreal?

[@brocscogmyre5592]

Is there any point in getting 5.4, given that I've got 5.3 and have trouble finding tutorials less than a year old, I'm doing your blueprint tutorials but other than that it's quite difficult

[@TheCinoche]

how can we clone and animate objects over a texture like in video time 11:25 till 11:35 please ?

[@artakavetisyan392]

where we can find free sample project with animations?

[@hernangomar5445]

Hi, i see that the course is having an offer atm, how long will it last my paycheck is next week :(

[@topyacht3179]

Where i can download sample project with animation?

[@Tenchinu]

the clothing and animations upgrades alone are enough to upgrade… but gaddam it, every time i start learning smt new and feel a TINNY BIT CONFIDENT, epic releases and entire new engine that makes wanna stop and move everything again. Im just gonna keep importing to newer engines and learning forever. Not a bad thing tho… adore all the cool now tools :)

[@rremnar]

I think they need to separate out "experimental" and "production ready" Into their own applications. That way you can do your job without issue, and play around and test the experimental features without wasting your time recovering from a crash or lost data.

[@Ezcendant]

Ugh, I need those motion matching assets noooooow. I'm at the point in my project where I need to start setting up animations, I don't want to wait until "later this year." :(

[@Bigbeatdown]

Hey if we already bought the course will we get the 5.4 versions?

[@dobrx6199]

Yes

[@SmartPoly]

yes if you already purchased the course, you will get the 5.4 remaster free

[@Bigbeatdown]

@@SmartPoly hey just wanted to say love what your doing, truly, one of the best!

[@TheTruthPhoenix]

@@SmartPoly cool stuff bro! :)

[@connorjade5460]

Unreal is getting so much good I fear epic games may get evil in future....

[@DrZou28]

I hope so, you use the new stuff in your remasterd course.

[@Alish1388-hi]

Unreal engine is getting updates faster than me learning one 😅😅

[@pleasantlygrim6712]

Huge W

[@user-tm1vs1fy9f]

original course is also very good.

[@Dreygar]

Do you think a open world survival game based on a spherical world is possible?