New Unreal Engine Features for 2023 - State of Unreal

Unreal's future was revealed at the State of Unreal Event. This video highlights all of the major announcements and new features coming to UE5.
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Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:08 - UE5.2
1:42 - Meta Human Animator
3:10 - Verse
4:11 - Fab
5:55 - Fortnite
7:25 - Metaverse

[@UnrealSensei]

Checkout the new channel dedicated to Unreal Editor for Fortnite! www.youtube.com/@fortnite_sensei

[@gamsc]

Hello @UnrealSensei, will your "Unreal Masterclass" course cover the Verse language and Fortnite development ?

[@Riffs4U]

Are you going to be producing content in Fortnite?

[@UnrealSensei]

@@gamsc It might cover verse in the future but it will not cover Fortnite. But skills are transferable from the Masterclass to UEFN

[@gotthis5613]

@@UnrealSensei What kind of PC do you use for Unreal? Or what's the best to get vs an okay PC?

[@smokingheadstudiogerman5299]

**REALLY** Thank you for making me lol like not before this day: 0:40 "To make the work faster" Yeah. *in unreal ?* i mean: in **THIS ENGINE** every Workflow needs not lesser than 10 time more than for example in Unity ? Make it faster ? you will tell me, unreal find a way, to do **ONE SINGEL THING** Without to need HOURS for the same Result in Unity done into secundes ? **Great** LOL. thank you, this was made my day. Fast Workflow in Unreal, this is same like Aliens told us, they living on the moon.

[@damingy]

Epic is constantly pushing the envelope. So grateful; having all these tools available for free is a childhood dream come true for me.

[@SantaAna4]

voy a llorar

[@onerimeuse]

​@Mer Luzo and yet unity still stands. Epic is great, don't get me wrong, but unity had it's place. They're both doing amazing things and providing them for what is essentially free to people like us that just want to build our dreams, and so IMHO they're both amazing.

[@anaveragegamer359]

@Mer Luzo unity is better for some genres than unreal

[@ZIROBYTE]

for you only i guess xd .. the fact is : 112.254 viewers only in 6 days ? i bellieve , they just now just abbandoned the best historical comunity of UT saga Games... oneday same thing and destiny will be for theyr fortinite xd

[@FreeSpeechXtremist]

Switched to unreal few months back still getting good but the power of the engine is amazing!

[@GamingGrenade1]

Epic Games continue to blow me away. Looking forward to your in depth look at the new features

[@smokingheadstudiogerman5299]

watch unity, will blow you away to.

[@FunkSwipe]

Every one of these announcements is revolutionary. I feel like we're witnessing history being made 😮

[@georgiosburnham]

100% 😆

[@tyunpeters3170]

For the first time I feel a little bit like learning Unreal

[@goatpepperherbaltea7895]

Procedural tools aren’t new

[@gaming4K]

Since Metaverse i was thinking it should be in Unreal Engine and that Epic is already goin in that direction, they just didn't have the name Metaverse for it yet. Unreal Metaverse haha

[@MortalShores]

I started on this channel, and I love coming back to see you helping inform and teach everyone else. Thanks man!

[@Tyrell_Hopkins]

I’m so happy with the management at UR. Great job!! Can’t wait to create with these new tools

[@peterallely5417]

Thanks for the summary! Looking forward to the updated landscape and landscape material tutorial!

[@nathanielmiller9841]

Excellent information, and it's all exciting news! Thank you for putting this recap together, I'm almost done with your tutorial and I can't wait to get ready to use the amazing tools they're adding this year.

[@FlanCakes]

Literally been making FN maps for years and UEFNs announcement has made me speed run learning, I'm in love with everything that I can do with unreal and all the help you've provided I hope even more young developers find that passion on your new channel aswell

[@FlanCakes]

Also might wanna reach out to creators like Richie toons he's kinda been doing what you've been doing but for legacy Fortnite maps. Might be nice to have someone who understands what the community is familiar with

[@MilkBotHere]

good luck!

[@seranotutorials626]

I LOVE UNREAL ENGINE 5

[@ab_dalwa]

UE5 is my bestie

[@onesime.rt2906]

Me too but it broke my pc

[@smokingheadstudiogerman5299]

@@ab_dalwa @Serano Toturials you 2 need to learn unity. YOu will never return to unreal.

[@AudriusSauciunas]

​@@smokingheadstudiogerman5299I did, a lot of the functionality thats built into UE5 is missing in Unity

[@MasterWaveXL7]

YES YES YES! I am so intrigued by Verse, and cannot wait for your tutorials and other resources Solodev may be more realistic than I thought

[@gauravnegi4312]

you are the best person for unreal updates. TO the point and actually helpful. Thanks

[@Vhite]

I'm really looking forward to Verse. I am a C++ developer by trade, but using it for small personal projects really sucks the fun out of Unreal. Having a higher level programming language that's easy to use, but scales better than Blueprint will be a nice middle-ground, though I think most of the big developers will most likely stick to C++.

[@laurenpinschannels]

verse is an extremely weird programming language in really interesting ways, it might bend your brain a bit - if you haven't looked at it I'd summarize it as being like if you wrote your entire program in template metaprogramming but at runtime. it .... might be similarly hard to debug, for the same SFINAE reason ...

[@danishadnan8316]

@@laurenpinschannels so would it be a bad idea to learn verse as my first language or would it be better to learn that language first?

[@danishadnan8316]

would it be a bad idea to learn verse as my first language or would it be better to learn that language first?

[@Dealman15]

What's so bad about it? I'm a C# developer by trade and I find it quite easy to get into, far more so than "normal C++" in that it feels a bit more like a scripting language aside from the compiling and headers/cpp files. I don't know what Unreal Sensei is smoking, but you definitely do not have to re-compile the engine for every small change you make.

[@laurenpinschannels]

nothing bad about it. it has some really cool paradigms. control flow is very odd in it, the way it handles errors and exceptions and set values are all very interesting

[@jjlyonsound]

The metahuman animation is awesome - it's definitely in the uncanny valley in this demo, but i'm looking forward to seeing how this technology is controlled!

[@afjer]

True but it gets you 80% of the way there. You still need an animator to tweak and fix it until it looks good.

[@aaagaming2023]

Imagine it combined with deepfakes tho.

[@spuffles2104]

@@aaagaming2023 already a thing

[@aaagaming2023]

@@spuffles2104 I know. Thats what I mean.

[@smokingheadstudiogerman5299]

nothing special. Daz Charakter basic Essentials + free Blender Plugin = you have the same.

[@sqwert654]

Using Unity for a couple of game atm for VR. But UE5.2 is compelling for my next game. Verse language I was not expecting but it could be good, I do love learning new languages.

[@MineTrain]

Thank you for this awesome summary!

[@GamingNewsSummary]

Thank you for the break down. It was a very impressive demo for sure!

[@robbie2044]

Incredible. All that power... Epic really blows it out of the park.

[@Flipside3D]

Reeeaallly looking forward to the procedural world building tools!

[@iamalongusername]

I think it would be really good if the procedural content generation could start working with assets for example you tell it you want a house with three stories two doors in the look of Tudor and it will go and generate something random for you. It would be even better if people could have these types of procedural generations templated and put on the assets store so someone’s assets they make won’t look exactly the same in the game that you build

[@brandonjacksoon]

Subscribed on your new channel! Thanks!

[@DenisZaharenko]

Will you make a tutorial on how to make a complex car system as shown in the unreal livestream?

[@Art_911]

Thx for the recap!

[@brandonjacksoon]

You have awesome tutorials!

[@daviddelrey723]

Cool video! Thank you for the updates !

[@garrytalaroc]

I hope you make a tutorial about using PCG that would be really nice.

[@ericandresen680]

Awesome video, thank you. Might be time to start tinker on that game i always wanted to do :D

[@mkjyt1]

Future looks to be awesome!

[@brandonjacksoon]

I'm #393 subscriber on your new channel :) thanks for awesome tutorials!

[@JakeDownsWuzHere]

this is kind of amazing. thanks for the update

[@TheSatzy6699]

Great content and explanation 👍🏼

[@desertcomber5108]

Thank you for this video. I started my UE journey 3 weeks ago, and your tutorial was what got me comfortable with the program. My end-game is not to create/make video games, but it is to create stories and short films. It would be interesting to see some of your content do that... if you have the time, or a clone, to help manage it. As a side bar question, other than Fortnight, was is the major difference between UE5 and UEFN? They seem to be the exact same thing. I'm not sure what features/benefits one has over the other. Thank you. Keep up the great content!

[@tobiasmyers3505]

Good question. Maybe look at how Roblox does it and Fortnite has had custom content in the past. Look at that. The popular stuff.

[@nameinvalid69]

Absolutely stunning! Hopefully games in the next few years uses these tech well!

[@nicholasking6066]

I look fword to learning how to use this. Thank you ;~)

[@joeefsu6613]

Thanks as always for the content.

[@RicardoEsteves]

Steam: We have a map editor and you can create some shorts with our Source Filmmaker! Epic: Hold my Game Development Studio.

[@MrPangahas]

My first game engine was Hammer editor making Counterstrike maps, 20 years after we have this amazing tool for free.

[@TheoTzu]

Let’s go 🎉

[@xairoh2358]

So excited for Verse, I hope it is more flexible than Blueprints but not as complicated as C++

[@tomc180]

Your videos are always so good.

[@komalvishwakarma9740]

hiee I simply lovvve your tutorials but can you also make a tutorial on sequencer for animation! That would be a great help to learn about it in detail.

[@Jax1Million]

hey sensai brilliant work. this comment isnt related to this video particulary, but could you maybe do some new tutorials based on the new unreal maybe basic things like changing fps default gun to your own design please. most tutorials i am finding for basic stuff seem to be slightly out dated now and dont work with the new movement system. im brand new to unreal (last 2 months) so i really have to follow tutorials step by step but some of the steps arent the same in the new unreal. sorry for long message but brilliant work btw.

[@robob3ar]

Fab could be a game changer, a persistant object library (hope it’s for materials as well)..

[@Designguidetv]

kind of excited about verse!

[@Danta1ion]

The Fab platform will be the next gen 3D marketplace. Unfortunately It is currently unavailable in UE 5.2 preview. I asked the developer in UR Forums that it will be launched this year.

[@danjames1922]

As a guy that started game programming by writing pixels to 0xA000, the pace and functionality of these (free!) game engines is mind blowing

[@btaranto]

Incredible!

[@GraveUypo]

strangely, the most interesting part of this is the fortnite part. seems like a good opportunity for newcomers and small studios to get some leverage on their projects.

[@fabioburkard]

Excellent video, I'm pretty excited to see Verse, FAB and MH Animator. Also thanks for the good explanation about UEFN, I had barely heard about it, but now I see it can become the "new Unreal" (I remember when Unreal was only a FPS game, but look at it now).

[@TonyTxT]

what a great time to be grateful !

[@kamitekeiichi2376]

sensei why have you stopped making content? your tutorials are literally the best i have seen on the internet

[@oneone8318]

Thanks. This was interesting

[@johnmcwick1]

@Unreal Sensei Hey I want to make video games using unreal 5, I’ve tried to follow your videos, but is there anything I need to know before watching your videos on how to start unreal? Also do you have a website or something, if not you should have something dedicated to all the shortcuts you can use for unreal 5

[@PassportGaming]

I love this channel

[@Biza-Je]

This is sick!

[@cuongtran5132]

You mentioned it will release later in the year for unreal engine, would you happen to have the article or video where they mentioned that? I am super excited for it but wanted to get a sense of a release timeline for unreal engine.

[@dreamphoenix]

Thank you!

[@ObiWanStromboli]

It’s going to bed so freaking awesome to play games with unreal engine 5 I can’t wait. What I’m not gonna like though is getting the hardware necessary to play these newer graphics

[@SanOcelotl]

will FAB be available for aplications other than game engines, like Blender, 3dsMax or Maya?

[@arcsinjesse]

this is so nuts man

[@jakdexter2075]

What a time to be alive!!

[@jesseyules]

Making games has never been easier. What a time to be alive. :)

[@joelface]

Hold onto your papers!

[@smokingheadstudiogerman5299]

it is much more easy. you can use "Unreal" and punish yourself or you can use unity and make a game. your choice.

[@tlove21]

I really want to make a game I envisioned in my mind years ago if only for myself. I just need the time, and Unreal seems to be making this possible.

[@AndySomething]

It's been a long time since I played Fortnite, but I have such nostalgia for the early days of it. I think it will be remembered fondly as a great game, and it's impact on the gaming industry from a technical standpoint with unreal and practices such as normalising the move away from pay to win lootboxes has been extremely positive.

[@robob3ar]

Either meta buys unreal or unreal buys meta to get into metaverse, buying chatgpt, and making this matrix we live in now ;)

[@henryjohnson-ville3834]

Yep! And push Unreal 5 to make VR games easier and faster. After playing the epics - Boneworks, Lone Echo and Half-Life Alyx, other VR titles look bad.

[@AngriestEwok]

Amazing.

[@MrBADxAMOO]

i think they should improve movements and physics of the engine more when characters is running in the engine its like its flying above the ground with out actual physics (im not saying its bad but need more improvement)

[@DaddyVader87]

We going to get a new unreal sensei tutorial from that procedural forest feature?

[@fistwood]

EPIC is truly EPIC!!!! all of this advancement makes my head hurts but excited at the same time!

[@guillaumevandermaas9316]

is your tutorial also good to start archiviz ?

[@VijayAVk]

It's amazing that unreal came a very long way 💛💛💛

[@ChristianHohlfeld]

thank's!

[@user-fb1bl1mp9t]

I learned something new today

[@UndermobzRec]

Hey im wondering, because i had some trouble with 5.1 i stayed at 5.0.3 but can I just open and continue my project when 5.2 comes out?

[@eirik2712]

I have such incredible respect for Tim Sweeny to want to create a world where companies are working together to create a common place for all the game development tools that exist. This way every company doesnt have to create their own game development tools that others have already made. Saving 1000 of work hours, and becoming greater than the sum of their parts. I got chills hearing you talk about Tim Sweenys vision

[@Jack-he8jv]

just wish UE make support for VRM models like Unity, no idea if its possible but i hope it is.

[@cg.man_aka_kevin]

0:47, maybe we can recreate Pandora world from Avatar super realistic! 😆🔥🌿

[@martinmingosuarez8690]

I wonder why the felt the need to create a completely new programming language instead of using an already stablished one, specially if its supposed to be a general propose on, maybe a video discussing this and highlighting the features that make verse different would be a good idea

[@reygood1]

verse... i hope it is similar to C/C++ or C# but much simpler.

[@stevenfutrell7892]

i miss unreal tournament and the unreal storyline games we need a remaster of unreal 98 in the UE5 engine

[@tuxgirl]

Any hope for native support for blender objects with geometry nodes? What's the best way to get geometry nodes objects into UE? Do I just need to apply everything?

[@milo20060]

Nanite for deforming mesh like skeletals (Characters, etc) And the gaming industry would blow up exponentially. And also the size of games would 10x after that :D :D

[@Matthitizidu]

I’m a simple man.. I see new Unreal Sensei I watch.

[@ethanhinkle5369]

Could never get a good velvet looking shader now substrate makes it truly possible

[@ac8704]

What Epic is doing blows me away. Its insane how powerful these tools are!!

[@orphydiancg7759]

Where can I get the dragon image you used for the thumbnail in a wallapper size res?

[@nowherebrain]

verse is what I've been waiting for since it was announced...like 2 years ago.

[@resetXform]

I still cannot see in Substance Painter the formula for exporting glass correctly or find a suitable workflow for a decent glass in UE5

[@imamnahid2931]

Excellent

[@Hempix_vr]

i want to say that automatic train tool is very good thing... with that with litte code u gona be allowed to create relistick world generator like in minecraft imagine having zombie game that has map generated with locations... i seen that concept with houses someone made it by they self and i think u relly can make cool thing with it

[@maorhamami8106]

what the hell?! the last part is Unreal!!, adjusting game on the fly - just wow.

[@vladimirtchuiev2218]

Verse looks very much like Python. One of the great features of Blender is Python scripting, and doing something similar for UE5 is great.

[@chandrabhushan9768]

🔥🔥🔥

[@Kartoon_Develop]

This is so Cool! I am making a game rn and this Meta Human Animator gonna save me so much time!!! If anyone want to join the development journey he is welcome to check the channel, new vids soon!

[@Unknown-wb1bf]

What is it about?

[@Unknown-wb1bf]

What is it about?

[@silverwerewolf975]

Any of the demos shown here can be downloaded ?

[@nintendians]

now we need nanite support on riggable character/creatures, so we don't have to deal normal maps on them.

[@niriam]

This is so Epic Games. Marketing the engine while sweeping the game series that birthed it under the floor mat. Good job , guys. Good job

[@FatPasta]

Without Unreal Engine I couldn't be following my dreams of publishing games and getting out of this job I hate. Love seeing this stuff and people so hyped about it

[@boredgunner]

I really appreciate Epic pushing the envelope, but does anyone else feel they try to reinvent the wheel too much? With Verse maybe (or maybe not), TSR vs FSR 2, Lumen vs RTXGI+RTXDI.

[@samm.8052]

Game engines in the span of maybe a year, have turned from super complicated softwares to Halo:reach forge! This is mind boggling! I can’t even believe it!