Unreal Engine 5.4 Feature Highlights

Unreal Engine 5.4 is packed with new features and improvements to performance, visual fidelity, and productivity that will benefit game developers and creators across industries. Find out more at unrealengine.com/whats-new.
With this release, we’re delivering the toolsets we’ve been using internally to build and ship ‘Fortnite Chapter 5,’ ‘Rocket Racing,’ ‘Fortnite Festival,’ and ‘LEGO Fortnite.’
Highlights include substantial updates to both in-editor and gameplay animation features, significant rendering enhancements, an extended virtual production toolset, improved developer iteration, and much more.
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[@JonathanWinbush]

Congrats to Andy and the team on releasing the motion design tools! 🎉🤙🏾

[@dumpdump9898]

Your tutorials have been a huge help!

[@andyblondin7384]

Thanks Winbush!!! Huge thanks to all the Beta testers

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@andyblondin7384 absolutely thanks for having me along for the ride I'm excited these tools are now out in the community!

[@Matthewfurry]

Hello winbush How to do it now nanites shadings, optimize shader, hardware ray tracing How do I do?

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@Matthewfurry how do you do what in particular?

[@pitcrowley]

At this point i'm convinced they're gonna release new and improved real lives with UE 6.

[@acay5722]

UE6 is just gonna be one giant megacomputer which controls reallife weather, volumetric clouds and sun rays XD

[@jackmorton7406]

Holy crap that Nanite improvement is insane!

[@KimboKG14]

tesselation: how many subdivisions would you like? nanite: yes!

[@ComfortZoneComic]

got 5.4 ....opened a few existing projects...all things seem okay....thanks !

[@Pikastation28]

This is the best time to be a 3D animator and I really want to use unreal engine 5 to animate things.

[@OnMars3D]

"Finally" is right, the movie render graph has been a long time coming!

[@SuperMyckie]

Really curious to see how it works

[@PhilipZeplinDK]

Animation rigging and displacement maps are exactly what I was hoping for 🎉

[@HomAxz]

I cant even begin how amazing this update is. The motion graphics, sequencer, viewport, outliner, quick retarget.. just amazing.

[@KartoonDevelopTips]

It's Finaly out!! Can't wait to test the Motion Matching and Motion design more, amzing job!

[@_Garm_]

would fun to see more and better 2D support in the engine :)

[@andrew8253]

Godot

[@_Garm_]

@@andrew8253 godot is ok, but i want work with Unreal :)

[@cheekychaise3199]

Have you tried paper zd? I thought about it but eventually decided to abandon 2d altogether.

[@TheFlashStickman]

As an animator who just started learning CG character animation a couple years ago in Blender, these new UE animation tools look very approachable!

[@ebrahim_mr]

Thank you for the motion matching system. it will help us a LOT 😍❤

[@xorengames]

This is awesome! Upgrading to 5.4 right now. Cheers!

[@Abdessamad889.]

Hey guys, Amazing job. But the engine is so heavy on some systems (at least mine.), I really hope that you take optimization in mind.

[@KostasMachete]

Amazing work! Now the only thing’s missing is the motion matching sample with the animations so we can study more of this tool.

[@lordnaps]

the retargeting, tessellation, & rendering upgrades 😍

[@rano12321]

okay the movie render graph is probably the biggest update for vfx people.

[@user-fi8bn6ct8t]

For the unification of 3D... Holy😮

[@thomaseichler2368]

As always there will be no disappointment in UE ever seen

[@Homi3]

Very Exciting Update Can't Wait to Use It This Is the Only Thing That Gives Me Excitement and Motivation Nowadays

[@AGCreationsflorida]

Been loving this app! Green screen is so easy, fast and has amazing results in a short time.

[@Oldyellowbrick]

I’ve only just got into Unreal as a motion designer and loving it 👌

[@DarkSession6208]

JUST TO MAKE SURE SOMEONE READS THIS. The Motion Movement Component (Mover 2.0) is now included but theres ZERO documentation on how to get it even into the Player Character Blueprint... Not even on reddit nor discord anybody knew how to do this. Again great documentation from Epic releasing CRITICAL stuff that was needed years ago and then not giving any examples.

[@pedrosilvasouto7320]

you all should try one day to play a future videogame named "Portugal: Rise of the Ornurenses" that will launch on Steam and it will be made on Unreal Engine 5 in a few years This game is a sci fi game set in Portugal where a young man named Sérgio created several robots in shape of mythical creatures for an exposition at the Web Summit... in this game players can play as one of this robotic mythical creatures like Griffins, Chimeras, Werewolves, Gargoyles and many others and complete quests across places like Sintra... I should not give too much spoilers but this game in the future will have expansions and players will be able to explore the full Portugal from north to south and even some alien planets as well in this new "pagan and robotic Portugal"

[@MichaelDomer]

fake

[@waltthayer3459]

Imagine making your own Halo animated movie

[@germane.s.5727]

Great! Will be nice to play games using this technology. Does anyone knows why the old dotted Sony log appears with the word Sting on the ship at the end of the video? XD

[@thevestarr]

Two words: Hell. Yeah.

[@xxdeejinxx]

Do the performance improvements in UE5.4 mean that

[@lFunGuyl]

"setting up a leg in just a few steps" Ohhhhhh 😅

[@GorkaGames]

Amazing!! Can't wait to dive deeper into Motion Matching! 🔥💪

[@ThiagoLionheart]

We are waiting Motion Matching 500+ Animations Project from EPIC to work on a Parkour Project 😉

[@eleonora7490]

I understand nothing, but everything is awesome ❤

[@philippevm]

That snow scene with the truck will be downloadable?

[@Mr_Dee]

That’s a whole lot to take in!! Awesome release🎉

[@Z0MBUSTER]

Noice ! But...Anytime for the promised Epic Laucher overhaul though...

[@DarkSession6208]

this, we needed that overhaul 4 years ago.

[@FPChris]

Add a video editing suite.

[@insertanynameyouwant5311]

when Nanites are able to work with all the characters, it`s game over for retopology! Some day....

[@dconnectzone]

Awesome! just updated few minutes ago.

[@christmworkflow2886]

Nice Qol improvement , crazy update again.

[@wingedhussar1453]

Hi could unreal engine 5 get cloud coverage update where shadows or daytime gets dim when clouds go over

[@megitsune714]

Is motion matching performant or should i just stick to the classic state machines for my parkour game?

[@Matthewfurry]

Very awesome unreal engine 5.4 nanites shadings and rendering

[@shadowarez1337]

Is Direct Storage something you can add within this or is that entirely done through Direct X 12 programming?

[@judasthepious1499]

unreal updates with new features, is faster than me learning it..

[@GES1985]

Unreal Engine needs an official chatbot ai that can help noobs like me with blueprints

[@alphachip]

Awww yiss... now we just wait on that sweet motion matching animation demo coming later.

[@TheEmaestro14]

Anytime I see developments in Motion Design I immediately await new sports graphics packages for NCAA sports broadcasts 😂

[@dmangamesSTUDIO]

Retargeting is huge! Also interested in the cloud DDC

[@freddyready8756]

Animation tools that every engine likely would want. Also nice to virtual scene improvements, but still feels like distance still has its faults or background type used.

[@JenAnty_JA]

What about bugfixes? 😅, can't wait to test it! 🎉

[@dave3269]

MacOS full screen? iOS push notifications without needing to build from source? Right clicking on Magic Mouse / magic track pad?

[@zuinfibe947]

It takes me more to download the new Unreal version, than Epic to release the next one.

[@frankynakamoto2308]

What unreal engine 5.5 needs is to automatically detect the humanoid character And with a click of a button explain it which are the knees, the elbows and also the neck So it should scan the body and create a humanoid skeleton and also automatically apply those same features being explained, so the knees the elbows the neck all is autonomously added on its own, And also to have voice commands Where we tell it and it speaks back A virtual assistant SOPFiA So we explain This robot is made of steel, and it automatically makes it all steel frames, and that the steel is destructible And we explain it to procedurally generate a city and it generates a city on its own.

[@AnimeEye1]

can anybody tell me that should i use blender or unreal to make animation, my type is to make cinemaric shot like movie not gammes. please tell

[@RolyPolyGames]

Any links to guides on setting up or getting started with a lot of this? I'm going to be doing A LOT of animating soon.

[@Lloyd_2001]

Is unreal trying to become the new blender?

[@CGYI-zb3ho]

I don't understand the in-editor animation and rigging stuff. From what I gather, can you automatically rig the unrigged model in-editor by just adding the module asset to the project? Or does the skeletal mesh need to have bones and weight paint integrated before bringing the assets in?

[@user-zw1bb2qn4i]

I believe the model should be rigged before hand and then you can easily animate the character using the new IK feature which move the adjuscent body part accordingly

[@staiain]

I wish adding HDR support became mandatory for all new games

[@CosmicComputer]

UE 5.4 is ❤

[@ArtVandelayInc]

Does anyone know how to control gizmos with middle mouse button like in the video? When I press mmb it just do panning like before. Is there a setting for it?

[@ArtVandelayInc]

Apparently, it's a new plugin. You gotta enable in in the plugins. Called TRS Gizmo. Then again enable it in the editor preferences. Search for gizmo and you'll see it. It doesn't support snapping though.

[@emfresh8348]

Bhvr is having a field day with this update

[@fm_ography]

Looks great! But I can't find the free animation pack mentioned in your show on the UE marketplace?

[@ApexArtistX]

Update the image plate issue

[@ryanisanart]

new TRS gizmos dont allow you to alt+click and drag to create duplicate?

[@terminalstrm]

I have been looking forward to UE 5.4 and these enhancements to VR/XR. It is time to build!

[@StandaloneVR]

Helloo, will you use AI real time animations for NPC and main characters to have a hyper cool realistic scene? Will unreal 5 work with Qualcomm VR GPU for VR standalone games?

[@gabrielepardi5178]

Those are great news especially the ones on the optimization Looking forward to this update and cobgratz to rhe team for their hard work

[@KhanShafkat]

Everyday is a new improvement

[@EtzeNuegez]

JUICY!

[@kurtXhecticXpl]

That terrain ;0

[@PauloHF18]

I would like to see an improvement in upgrading the project to a new engine version without corrupting the project, I had problem from 5.0 > to 5.1 > to 5.2 and now I don't trust it anymore

[@DxBang3D]

00:45 Why are dragons so often made with vertical pupils? It would make sense if they were small animals.

[@victorvdr9]

Amazing! Does anyone know some documentation or tutorial to do this 1:56 ? Can't wait to try this!

[@martinibomb]

You just enable tessellation in the material options and plug data into the displacement node, make sure u got nanite on tho

[@victorvdr9]

@@martinibomb thanks!

[@PeirceLorenz]

@@victorvdr9 the normal map is also animated. see their gdc episode with snow guy

[@RobCardIV]

if you have to drag and drop everything. that means everything was pre packed in other platforms. not really created in ue4. so instead of sayin g"creat" you might want to saay " use assets effeciently"

[@user-sh4pt2qk1y]

What the hell is "software variable rate shading via nanite"? Is this something we need to setup? does it gets activated automatically?

[@dlai5884]

Great, I hope we can continue to enhance the character animation function, I really like using it!

[@fabio656]

Da para fazer Artes e Projetos ?

[@kellowattentertainment]

Wonderful stuff. You guys need to work on your Water Plugin though. It needs some serious improvements.

[@martinibomb]

I think it's depreciated or something lol

[@kellowattentertainment]

@@martinibomb that's an understatement. Any modification to it and you'll see the water breaking

[@jakobvonderessen]

some great improvements. cgi will become more and more accessible, also with ai, as time flows

[@mikemerezhko]

Great news! Have you switched Fortnite to it yet?

[@nahasathossainnibir2410]

Any C++ related updates?

[@DarkSession6208]

Any BP related updates* ... still waiting for rollback and client prediction in Blueprint .. they abandoned us more than the C++ guys.

[@hkrause6565]

how long until they integrate an AI assistant?

[@ohheyvoid]

Woo!!! Updating now

[@admiral40k]

Next up is UE5.5, you can now experience life 2

[@eliasdadkhah2894]

please return matrix awakens demo in store

[@branidev]

I have a question as Unity dev, when Unreal have new version can you update your project it its new version? Is this like Long term supported version? or it is coming out like in beta version first and it is not stable? help me understand

[@H1JaX]

It has just come out of Beta and is now part of the stable release versions. As for upgrading your project version, for the most part, yes your project can be updated seamlessly to the latest version of UE5 with the click of a couple of buttons. Only under rare circumstances would you not be able to update to the latest version, but usually it's only a couple of alterations. Hope this answers your question

[@branidev]

@@H1JaX thanks so another example how simple is Unreal, Unity is a mess of a software in many ways

[@H1JaX]

@@branidev It depends on whether you prefer Unreal Engines built-in Blueprint (Node based system, no hardcoding required) or you have extensive C++ coding experience, Mixing between the two is pretty common practice, although it is totally plausible to create a game in Blueprints alone. There is a vast amount of information through official documentation and KZbin with step by step guides and sample projects available for both Blueprints and C++. The best way I could sum-up Unreal Engine, Very easy to learn and pick up, but hard to master. You will always be accumulating knowledge to add to your Game Dev arsenal 😄

[@deepelements]

This is mind-blowing.

[@fabio656]

Da para Construir uma Ponte ?

[@PATPOILofficial]

Soon demo technique for ps5? 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@metafuel]

Thank you Epic.

[@procrastinator24]

Every 5.x update so far was really a banger! way to go!

[@Ro3D_DigitalInsights]

This is huge as always!

[@CameronRule]

Guess I'm learning C++ now?

[@volvy6555]

MAN this is UNREAAAAAAAAL (6)

[@huhuhuh525]

i am waiting for the day unreal engine rebrand to real engine

[@No_Plastic]

You're not far off. It's been mentioned before and already has a working title as "RealTime engine" RE -

[@electromonkey.artstation]

Epic updates! As always 😉 Go-Go Unreal Engine!

[@unreolog8699]

Epic! As always

[@JustPablo5000]

Now please tell these studios to make something worthwhile. I get it, games are gonna look gorgeous now but we need them to be solid releases.

[@wowmedialtd]

It amazing cgi voodoo.....but I'm a little worried that I'll commit weeks of time learning a system that I may not be able to afford once the payment model starts.

[@evaander]

how to get a job at UE?

[@Chocoronat]

Well done, can we get AI voices for characters, please 🐧