Unreal Engine 4.8 Now Available

Epic Games confirmed last week that the latest update to the popular Unreal Engine development suite, 4.8, would feature integrated support for the SteamVR platform. That latest edition of the engine is available to download now and is free to use under the new terms established by Epic Games back in March.

[DevilOgreFish]

Cool, i was just playing around with UE4 just last night.

[FreakOrama]

Are we that close to UE5??

[ryuuzakibjorn]

Nah, It'll be 4.10.

[TheCommentator]

Epic said that they were done with engines with Unreal 4. Things could change, but Unreal 5 seems unlikely anytime soon, if at all.

[obz]

Why would you need a UE5 when Unreal can just update 4 continuously?

[SuperFly456]

I would love to mess around with UE4, but sadly my pc can't handle it. What kind of pc would I have to invest in to be able to handle it?

[Timesplitter14]

http://choosemypc.net/build...

you'd be fine with something like this

[paul-p1988]

I'm starting to play with UE4 and it works quite well on my 5yr old laptop, it's only got 4gb ram and a 1.3mhz dual core processor. It's a pretty basic laptop (only cost £300 at the time, one of the low end models) but as mentioned, Unreal and Unity both work quite well on it.

[DevilOgreFish]

A quick shortcut tip. Makehuman and Daz3D are both character creation studios that are free To download, and they can export to UE4. According to their EULA, they allow you to make characters using their software in games and sell them residual free. You however cannot sell individual characters, or them as DLC.

Makehuman exports characters as low as 35,000 polygons up to 80k. characters can be exported with bones, no animations. Daz 3D has a character creation studio+ animation studio and can export them to UE4. Daz3D exports models no lower than 100k. To export them lower you need to purchase the game developer version.

It's important to read up on all the EULAs of all software.

[DevilOgreFish]

Just to make it less difficult on frequently asked topics. I posted a link for Daz3D. http://docs.daz3d.com/doku....

If you use UE4 they give you a game developer license and copyrights.

[ryuuzakibjorn]

This is actually incorrect; The PREVIEW build (As in not stable, Testing build) is available. Which means you can test some features but it won't work 100%

[NeverHeavyMan]

Indeed. The latest version to fully download is 4.7.6.

[Iluvtrim]

Nice

[Timesplitter14]

UE4 is progressing nicely, and it's sometimes tempting to jump from Unity to this, but I think I'll just wait for Source 2. UE4's 5% royalties is kinda bothering me, and the rig import is full of problems if you don't use Epic's own rig, and the API is a bit spaghetti-ish at times.

I just wish we knew Source 2's release date already

[kakashi81]

So you can use unreal engine for Wii U??? If so, this is very good news.

[PLASTICA-MAN]

UE4 supports machines with at least DX11 like API levels from PCs, PS4, Xbone, iOS devices that can handle metal staring from Iphone 6 to Ipad Air etc. It doesn't support Wii U unless you want 2D games only like the supported inferior mobile devices.

[kakashi81]

But can Nintendo use a software update for dx11? :-(