The State Of Unreal GDC 2024 in Under 10 Minutes!

Epic Games just concluded their GDC 2024 State of Unreal keynote speech, discussing the future of Unreal Engine, UEFN, and other projects. In this video we summarize the keynote down to under 10 minutes, focusing on the bits of most importance to game developers!

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[DustinM]

LOL! I love the "10" minutes edit. But seriously, thank you for the summary!

[azaelsergal]

5.4 is definitely an animation focused update, hopefully 5.5 or 5.6 focuses on MASS a little more

[codyjosifek]

Man I love Unreal! It seems that ever since the Unity debacle Unreal has just been nailing everything they are doing. I’m so happy to be using this Engine 🤩

[Archaoen]

the only problem i actually have with unreal engine is the size and build times, i hope in the future they can make more modular and less heavy overall.

[spacemanjupiter]

Don't remember if this was mentioned here but they said a first person camera is finally coming by the end of the year for UEFN. Right now seems like a really great time to start learning traditional art, Blender for modeling, texturing, animation, and UE/UEFN if you want to make a game. I'm beginning some courses this week.

[thomashalpin]

Anyone have a link to the Motion Matching Sample Project? I can't seem to find it.

[CellularScope]

I watched the original and now your video too, and in both videos it's mentioned that this motion library with 500+ animations is available for download to use with Motion Matching, but both videos fail to mention that it isn't actually available for download yet. It will only be released later in the year.

[vishwaksenreddy]

Motion matching is a really cool feature. I remember EA showing a similar technology in a demo.

[MeaganEater]

To compile faster, if you have multiple computers with Unreal loaded and they are all used to work on the same project as used by a team, then you should be able to tell it to compile on one computer and to use the resources of all the computers with the same project loaded on them. This would be done on site, so it would substantially reduce compile times and drastically reduce crashes. We are a small indie team of four, but we have 1 desktop server and 8 laptops we could network and load the project onto so they can all be used during compiling the main project on our server that has AMD Ryzen 7 3800X, 64 gig ram and 12 terabytes of hard drive space, of which 2 terabytes is an M.2 SSD.

[dchick]

Aaand, my rig is torn apart on my dining room table.+, waiting for parts to arrive. 😢

[KomodoBitGames]

I was expecting a release date for fab ngl

[mschulmeister]

Doesn't really matter how advanced Fortnite Creative editor gets, we all now well that 99, 99% and surely the most played maps will always be the most simple and stupid like colorful parkours and generic "RED vs BLUE" stuff

[doublegarts]

UE 5.3 works fine for me but every time I start 5.4 Preview I get Bluescreen in about 5 seconds. I really want to try that Motion Matching feature..

[yoshimitsu]

Six month of free revenue, when you get all the money, this is SO IMPORTANT

[gunterstunter]

Hi there, I’m a regular watcher. Not sure where to message where you may see it.
However your original video was quite helpful when deciding whether to use unreal on an M1 Mac. Since it’s been a relatively good experience with only a few limitations.

Could you do a video about the Mac updates in unreal 5.4 and an update to the other updates since your last Mac unreal from 9 months ago. That would be awesome, thanks!

[IamSHVA]

9:31 what is the news related to Marvelous?

[impheris]

Meanwhile on Unity:
"APV is here for years now, can we please make it usable for something... like... for real?"

[SunbleachedAngel]

Some very exciting things, especially those animations

[RiftTraveller]

I wasn't clear on what they were saying about making the next Fortnite season in UEFN. Will they stop dogfooding UE5 when they move Fortnite to UEFN?

[reubenstarsky]

So why the logo colors are changed to rainbow.