Unreal Engine 4.24 is now available for download. In this release, Epic is retiring Unreal Studio and bringing all of its features into Unreal Engine.
The release note updates list is huge, so here's a few of the major highlights:
Landscape Nondestructive Editing (Beta)
The workflows for nondestructive editing of Landscapes have been significantly improved and expanded to make creating outdoor environments more flexible and efficient.
Physically-Based Sky Atmosphere Component
A new physically-based Sky Atmosphere component that can be used to create an Earth-like atmosphere with dynamic time of day. It also can be used to create exotic worlds and provides ground view with sky and aerial perspectives, including ground to space view transitions.
Screen Space Global Illumination (Beta)
New support for dynamic global illumination with Screen Space Global Illumination (SSGI), which is a screen space effect scalable across Console and Desktop platforms and offers a dynamic GI solution where needed at a moderate cost to performance.
Datasmith and Unreal Studio for Everyone!
Datasmith helps developers bring entire preassembled scenes into their Unreal Projects from a wide variety of third-party design applications, such as 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, and SketchUp Pro. It preserves object hierarchies, surface materials and textures, light and camera properties, offers an iterative re-import workflow, and more.
And more...
- Hair and Fur Simulation Improvements
- Ray Tracing Improvements
- Runtime Virtual Texture Updates
Check out the full list here.
