New Features Coming To Unreal Engine 5 in 2024

Epic Games has released their roadmap for Unreal Engine 5 in 2024! We will get a lot of new features, in this video I will cover the most important ones.
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[@UnrealSensei]

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[@Worlldsinger]

using the most up to date version of UE, does the starter course guide still translate well?

[@UnrealSensei]

@@Worlldsinger Yes there are no changes in the Starter Course between UE5.0 and the newest version. The only different part of the course is that back then we couldn't enable Nanite on foliage. Now we can!

[@ETAD1K]

Good videos mate wish they were longer. Would you do a video of what the next generation of gaming will look like?

[@jimj2683]

How far behind do console games lag these cutting edge game engine features? Even the best games on console now look like they are far behind the best demos we have seen of unreal engine 5.

[@user-je8lw4gs2k]

good day sir how to fix this error? "UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): ERROR: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. PackagingResults: Error: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

[@now_ever]

There is a lot of exciting features, but as for me, CPU-multithread improvements is key for everything. Because, it's no point to use Unreal with ultra realistic graphics, when it's so demanding. But CDPR's Red Engine show that it's possible to deliver a great visuals with great scalability. So, I genuinely hope that Epic team were able to reach this level of scalability. P.S. The next feature after optimizing the engine, I would love to see new terrain features. Especially some kind of RunTime deformation, like in Battlefield. Would be great addition to Chaos.

[@radarodonnell]

I would guess that a good part of CDPRs fees to Epic will be paid in Unreal Engine improvements.

[@isays]

I was thinking the same thing WRT terrain features. It'd be pretty difficult to make something like a city-builder game without the ability to randomly generate a landscape and then alter that landscape at runtime.

[@now_ever]

@@radarodonnellI hope so

[@Khalid_Looby]

cpu multi threaded impvoements? how u know it is coming? please share so i read! thnx

[@robinv1485]

We already have it with the voxel plugin. BF was not true deformation btw

[@darrennew8211]

This is the first explanation of Substrate that has made any sense to me. Everyone just shows the truck and says "You can do things like this truck!"

[@user-ct8my8rv9c]

Because most don't understand it themselves and are just rushing out videos to be first and play to the algorithm

[@boraozenbirkan6853]

0:00 - Substrate: More advanced materials 3:38 - Better Landscapes 5:20 - Procedural Content Generation 8:42 - Machine Learning & AI 10:40 - Performance Boost

[@aryantzh2028]

performance boost for powerful cpu & gpu, not for older cpu & gpu, sad.

[@AnshinGG]

​@@aryantzh2028 bruh, multi-core rendering and processing works for all multi-core processors, which is pretty much everything since 2006, unless you're still using XP on a Pentium 3.

[@MonsterTamerBloba]

Thanks for the timestamps!

[@boraozenbirkan6853]

@@MonsterTamerBloba You're welcome!

[@6Twisted]

You should upload in 1440p or 4k for a higher bitrate. 1080p turns a lot of the details you're trying to show to mush. For reference 1080p is 1mbps, 1440p is 4mbps and 4k is 13mbps.

[@RahulVenugopal]

Love your content, just bought your Mastercall course :)

[@Highcastle_of_Geek]

Always looking forward to your upcoming tutorials. PCG will be especially useful.

[@apixel.content]

Looking forward to your upcoming tutorial on PCG and substrate material in the future :)

[@insertanynameyouwant5311]

Blender user here. Honestly I gave up learning UE5. Your tutorials were so inspirational and at some point I thought I got a grasp on it. But no, when I don`t follow any tutorial, I`m like a blind, and the software is counter intuitive, 95% of stuff I did I don`t remember. I don`t know if it`s because I`m used to Blender interface or/and because it seems similar but basically nothing alike.... Maybe the next year I`ll revisit it and give another try.

[@shikhermyv]

You are just fine. Unreal UI sucks, badly designed.

[@DevGods]

Hopefully they optimize substrates shader instruction count. A simple material like the one you showed with the dirt and metal is over 2K shader instructions. That’s crazy for games

[@gavinderulo12]

I feel like this is more geared towards the movie production side of unreal.

[@circlePulse]

Wait, what?? Unreal didn't have multi-threading? My browser literally has multithreading!

[@FaonPage]

Short, easy to understand, covers all major changes that are coming, exactly what I needed !

[@HighPerformanceGames]

Great list of new futures! Substrate materials is huge, it will be more performant heavy, but hopefully they will optimize it as much as possible.

[@ookami-chan3328]

Words cannot describe how excited I am for these features! Thank you for covering them!

[@WinrichNaujoks]

You'll never see them in real life.

[@mr.doctorcaptain1124]

It’s all going to be useless if they don’t get performance fixed. Graphical fidelity has been greatly increasing but performance is in the crapper for the last few years

[@drinkwwwaterrr]

These are all awesome! All i want now is for Epic to focus on making the size of the engine smaller and and adding more dedicated 2D tools

[@0rdyin]

Substrate materials approach is pretty good for art direction and artistic flexibility which is lot more similar to Pixar Renderman's pxr layered surface material system... but I'm scared about its performance constraints as unreal engine in its current material system is already very performance demanding.... The shader complexity will sky-rocket leading to another cause of stutter..

[@peterallely5417]

Epic have said they aim to release substrate as complete when it has the same or better performance as the current material system, so here’s hoping.

[@raven_glass]

I'm excited because substrate can replace shaders and decal effects. For example if you want to make an object look frozen or burnt you can apply substrate directly to the texture rather than a fake looking shader or decal.

[@UnrealSensei]

Substrate's complexities are optional. If you are treating it like a normal PBR material the performance will be the same and in some cases it will be more performant

[@samuelenslin1850]

@UnrealSensei Honestly, as I am only creating linear content with it, substrate is the most exciting feature for me right now. Our company only recently mde the switch to Unreal and it took me a long time to build a custom shader library with master materials tailored to our needs. But as there is almost no feedback, let alone good tutorials on the subject and I have limited ressources for RnD and substrate is mutually exclusive to the current material system, I am still hesitant to make the switch. I know you can use the conversion node and Unreal supposedly already makes that conversion automatically for all existing materials, but again, I´m not super experienced yet and was just dreading that a lot of things already being actively used in our projects would break and I wouldn´t be able to fix it easily... When I started out, I was really excited to use material layers, as these are the closest to what I was used to coming from offline renderers. I even started building our master materials to use them, but then discovered some major drawbacks: Until today, I couldn´t figure out why I wasn´t able to animate material parameters in sequencer ( i don´t remember if it was just for the blending function or the whole materials), which was a deal breaker. Another drawback was that you couldn´t mix translucent materials with any other materials correctly, but thats not possible with anything else but substrate as well... So...just as inspiration...If you´re deciding on what tutorials to work on, something that covers not just substrate in general, but specifically all the things you need to consider when rebuilding your existing material library, I would be VERY interested...:)

[@felixfischer5736]

Hi, great video. Is your course also covering some parts of programming? Something like how to structure code assets? Using subsystems or when better choose code over blueprint etc? Basically a course about how you glue everything together?

[@MADMOVIESINC]

Fantastic update, as always. Thanks, man!

[@pssstockarena]

i love your work man. keep it up!

[@IlseMulAuthor]

I'm looking forward to the development of PCG. I;m just starting out in Unreal, but it looks very interesting! It would also be great if a Voxel Plugin like feature were to become a permanent feature of Unreal, including runtime options so that players in your game can also change the terrain to their liking working within the boundaries you as a game dev set of course :D

[@ra3oon684]

First off, thank you for your vids. Would it be possible for you to make a whole toutorial on to setting up a whole PCG world? That would be absolutely awesome ❤

[@sabofx]

Epic improvements! Thanx for the heads-up! 🤗

[@raven_glass]

Excellent presentation. Very impressed with the hands on examples you give. How do you think PCG will be able to work with dynamic seasons and climate?

[@shocker_103]

PCG is a really interesting and cool feature to create the world more quickly. (After long pre setting) I'm looking forward to some tutorials. 😊

[@jimmwagner]

Thanks for the overview!

[@gergonagy3249]

Thanks for the vid, literally the best news I could hear this year about the UE 5 :)

[@ind_subh]

Hope they also provide some updates for metahumans as well.. Morph sliders ,custom normals , customisable hair systems ... Like Character creator or daz 3D... Also a direct pipeline from marvelous designer to unreal would be a win win.❤..

[@luismkts]

Great explanation as always! Thanks USensei

[@dhruvilbhayani2668]

Would really appreciate if we can get a PCG tutorial on how to make forests like you did!

[@juschu85]

I hope making landscapes 3D also includes spherical landscapes, so we can use them to make planets

[@dukeofwelfare]

I'm excited to see where all this motion matching is going to get us, makes animations look so much more realistic

[@stevefreeman6646]

Interesting about the CPU info you gave, and I look forward to the true multithreading feature. Even with just dual thread interrupts in UE, I'm glad I went with a i13900K. Becoming even more evident was during compiling tasks, compared to 12th gen devices (hours to minutes). Of course, all is for naught if you don't have the right memory, drives, and MB. GPU? For my work, RTX 4070ti works fine (image sequence rendering tasks). The first thing I noticed with this CPU was when moving my projects to a newer version of UE, especially when re-compiling was involved.

[@gamemakerdude]

These features are awesome! I just wish they would make it easier somehow to navigate in-game menus with a controller (without using a cursor).

[@tmaintv]

Good video mate, do u know what the forest road asset at 25 secs is from at all?

[@hytalegermany1095]

Hey Nice Video! Could you make a tutorial on how to bake niagara fluids into sparse volumetric texture?

[@Zumito]

Substrate is not only for blending materials, also is BSDF which allow us to make another types of materials like blurred glass

[@lilpain1997]

thats in the vid is it not? He literally mentions glass...

[@mohammadalaaelghamry8010]

Great. Thank for the updates.

[@polpez5603]

wonderful ! many thanks !

[@Gratata1]

Amazing videos man! I just started getting into game dev for the first time and I'm already moving around unreals UI easily cause of all your well timed tips 👏

[@Gratata1]

Do you make more short form tutorials for specific functions? I.E. a grapple hook

[@tomshepard9050]

AI deformation is impressive. I hope there’s development on cloth sim environmental collision. All games have lack lustre cloth physics like an afterthought, where it is extremely impressive to look at if done right.

[@dreamisover9813]

Those are some really outstanding features! The latest updates with Unreal 5 have been amazing. Should I want to work on a highly realistic game in the future, I might try to learn it again (currently still sticking with Unity).

[@samuelenslin1850]

Also, side note on PCG: I´ve seen a lot of different procedural, node based systems in other DCCs and the thing that made them most successful was always, when they either themselves released compacted modules that included a bunch of more complicated logic in a simplified node OR were able to engage a community of devs to do that, so the less technically versed artists were able to just pick them up and modify them as needed, without having to take a deep dive for everything they need. You mentioned that briefly and Unreal in general is doing a pretty good job at packing complex tools into simplified modules/UIs, so I´m looking forward to more PCG based content. Like, 90% of what I personally would actually need would be a procedural scatter tool, that has the option to also drive scattering with textures ,a few scaling /exclusion options and good management of species and color variation, something like forest pack woud be amazing in Unreal. I feel ultimately its something that should be integrated by Unreal itself and just be part of the foliage system though, as its so quintessential for environment creation.

[@JimDHart]

I'm still hoping to see some improvements in volumetrics. VDB advancements would be great.

[@samgreenfield3641]

I,m learning unreal atm ever since i saw the short film irradiation i was hooked i saw that you have a course but it says that vfx film making part of the course coming soon i was wondering if i should wait not i've been trying to gather as much info from youtube as much as i can but difficult anyway great content can't wait for the next video.

[@MrLarsalexander]

With PCG to remove foliage/meshes spawned at a certain area you can make a spline_bp that will remove anything that is inside the looped spline :) Or, if you have set meshes to only spawn on certain landscape material layers, then you have some layers that don't let meshes spawn on it....

[@michaelginn]

Can't wait for this update and watch the updated guide. Also if anyone has any links or stuff for magic VFX or magic based game engines would totally help.

[@TrueTwilightGrim]

Outside perspective, might be worth it for someone to make a PCG exemption zones for objects added into scene and/or exemption zone brush tool

[@ANTVirGEO]

Thank you!

[@SkSafowan]

Your videos are always top notch, Even who don't know anything about game development can understand these very easily. I always look forward to these type of Unreal Engine Review videos from you.

[@paulgavian90]

Right, Ive always wanted to be an architect but more so a video game maker. Still spend 3hrs minimum daily in gaming. All I ever did is mod command and conquer games and copy and paste codes.

[@DavesChaoticBrain]

I need to make a terrain like the one shown at 8:08 where the oasis is just a small part of a big sandy desert. Where can I go to learn how to do that?

[@gibbs3000]

The real time muscle and clothing deformation is a really cool feature, definitely going to add some realism to games. Can't wait to see what new features we see in 2024.

[@TryallAllombria]

Is it planned to get procedurals stuff running in runtime ? or is it only in editor ?

[@NorseGraphic]

It’s almost like UE5 utilizes the layering system from Photoshop, but a lot more advanced with the use of nodes. Having separate layers helps with adding decals onto the base material seamlessly. In video games when two textures are placed on top of each other there’s a flickering. It’s a lot more economic just adding extra layers on top of each other with new materials, than adding a plane geometry with it’s own material.

[@music_creator_capable]

Very cool video!

[@komegaming3500]

I have been watching your Tutorials and they are great! But if I want to create a Game I dont know how, I only see all those great game tutorials for Unity, so it would be really cool if u could start a Unreal Engine Game Tutorial to Dark Souls, a Tower Defense game or something in Low Poly.

[@Icefall3D]

Much of PCGS woes listed can be remedied by greater modularization of PCG elements. Grouping into area, and spline based tools allows for greater placement then all you have to do is include null objects to remove portions of PCG allowing you to add in your buildings or paths, etc. Or the opposite where you start big and go to small and put in greater structures and path in pcg around the object. Solution while we wait for greater PCG integration

[@TrinityMysteriousSystem]

Really need the ability to edit the landscape at runtime. Since this is done in the Voxel Plugin. Will this be developed in the new engine?

[@prometheus_beard]

Awesome! I'm making a series of films in UE 5.3 but the last few might be in 5.4 now! That just blew my tiny little mind dude! Would love your thoughts on my cg for my 100k draw video man. Took me 10 days to make a 2.5min video, but I got myself up to speed and working much faster now on film 1.

[@robbie_]

8:28 you show a tree/bush winding around a wooden frame (Blender). Is that a plugin? where I can get something like that. It looks great.

[@erickendoka2953]

Thank you sensei.

[@prestante]

Thanks!

[@nursultannazarov8379]

Hi. Can I get a link where Multithreading is mentioned? I couldn't find it in the Road map.

[@peterallely5417]

Re PCG can’t you add a tag to the building so that when you place it certain spawned meshes move out of the way

[@WitPop]

Hello! What assets did you use for tropical environment demo?

[@Taquitoman138]

Will PCG's allow you to input custom models for procedural dungeons or interior buildings?

[@Drahoslav_Lysak]

Great video 👍

[@lucychka]

I'm pleased with the progress.

[@thaZeref]

Wonder if Apple hardware raytracing with m3 series is coming out soon too

[@thedillydotcom]

And the upscaling support too. Even though they have beef with apple, they’ve actually been cranking out updates to bring better unreal engine to macs by improving support in the dev tools. I think that’s the most important thing is development parity with pcs. You can’t build great games for mac if you’re running a mac and your IDE is puking or wont let you run the tools with all the features you need for testing and building.

[@ygreq]

Epic presentation as always!

[@Personian]

Unintended pun?

[@atomics1307]

Unreal Sensei could you make a tutorial on how to create an Open world using voxel plugin?

[@ignacionevarez3254]

@UnrealSensei, what do you think the experience of using Unreal Engine in Mac Studio with M3 Ultra will be like?

[@niks660097]

Nanite meshes that can be splined or skinned would be a game changer for performance and workflow.

[@BakeNLikeJake]

So when is Unreal engine 5.4 coming out ?

[@danielnygren1]

As an oldtime gamedev in the late 90's, words cannot describe my fascination about this amazing new tech. Thank you so much for your informative exciting videos! 🙏

[@AkaSkooSkoo]

Do you know when "PCG" will get the customization that you talked about?

[@mynameisawesomeman]

Isn't Cyberpunk based on the same CD Project Red engine that was heavily CPU bound, say in Witcher 3?

[@th4fl4sh4]

Whenever I watch UE5 videos, it's like watching a magic show. Just incredible and I wish I could work with this tech.

[@CyberWolf755]

Weird how one of the most advanced engines, hasn't leveraged multi-threading more, especially for rendering. Just recently, they added Mass for large simulations, but more of their systems could have leveraged multi-threading before, like physics and animation

[@-Burs]

What a great year to be alive! :)

[@S41L0R]

im dubious that a select tool would be good for PCG.. like what would happen if then you decided to regenerate the area? Would you lose your changes? I think it would be preferrable to have areas that you define with rules, like "no trees here" for example.

[@Personian]

Agreed, actually

[@suryopras]

I've seen the most proper Lumen GI this year on Robocop Rogue City. The lighting and shadows are truly unlike anything I've ever seen before in any other game. UE5 Lumen is awesome!

[@davidbasilefilho]

You should do a tutorial on using C++ with UE5. We would really appreciate it if you did

[@artisans8521]

Import native Blend files. That sort of works but needs a lot of tweeking.

[@alvincamera]

May i ask unreal sensei?, do 1660ti capable for making environment and using lumens

[@StandaloneVR]

Hi, are those effects being implemented on PS5 and Xbox? Thx

[@billtie6052]

Looking forward to the AI developments. Will actor behaviors be part of 5.3 or will muscle deformation and facial recognition be the only extent of these features?

[@rocker10039]

I wanna see compatibility for blender materials, I hope we can export those someday

[@andrewkarn9255]

I like how all the cosmetic beach and cliff rocks in ark ascended are clearly not on the ground and just awkwardly floating above it

[@Samuele_Lini_ARS]

Do the landscape displacement is visible in 5.3 path trace render? It will in 5.4?

[@Hokunin]

Totemo subarashii desu, Unreal sensei!!!

[@lovelearn341]

Will you also include PCG videos in your Master Class?

[@kristerpresty8033]

PCGs can be manipulated within the pcg though, so if you want you could remove based on actor placed in the world with tags.

[@SkillipEvolver]

Quick question. At 10:25, what hardware is being used? (Ie pc rig)

[@istanbulprivate]

I hope AI tools would add more especially for Control Rig and Animation stuff.

[@jo.D56]

I would like a feature, to take a render picture just with one a button (choosing the type of light calculation and image size in advance). At the moment, this simple functionality is super-complicated: you have to create a one-frame movie, associating a camera with it and so on. There's been huge progress, but I still find it lacking in basic functionality of some kind.

[@user-vc3dh9jp6v]

I have seen a paid plugin for multithreading within unreal. Had some good reviews. Also great video.

[@jeremybot]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do not think the "ML Deformer" works as many seem to think it works. I believe a muscle simulation setup needs to be created and simulated in DCC, then poses are applied automatically which is what trains the ML Deformer via machine learning, with it figuring out the best deformation solutions for each pose, based on the orientation of the skeleton/armature bones. These shapes are then driven by the "ML Deformer" in engine, much like a corrective blendshape deformer that is driven by an RBF solver... but on steroids, via rotations of the individual skeleton/armature bones.

[@joyddeyto5345]

I prepare camera correction features for architectural visualization

[@georgeo309]

would love if they add a baker for quixel mixer

[@larnregis]

11:00 I'm astonished/surprised there are enough calculations still done on the CPU for multithreading to have such an impact. I would've expected Unreal Engine mostly working on the GPU.