007: Elemental Titans, Free Roaming VR and Midi Tools

Welcome back to the Outpost. It’s the 27th July 2024.

We’re back after a bit of a glitch in the system last week. As the summer rolls on there’s more coming from conferences, summer projects and developers sweating through summer releases. We’re cooking up something ourselves here at the Outpost, watch out for our new podcast releasing in the next few weeks.

If you have a great story that you want to tell, a new plugin you want to share or art you want to show off, reach out to me here.

The Latest

Unreal Fest Prague 2024 Videos Start To Release

We haven’t had quite the release push like we did for Unreal Fest 2023’s videos, but Epic are now releasing the 2024 schedule. There is not a handy playlist yet but take a look at Epic’s Youtube channel for the latest.

While UEFN might not feel like the most interesting topic to a seasoned Unreal Engine developer it’s worth keeping an eye on these releases as tools from UEFN like Verse look like they’ll be mainlined before long.

Existent Opens Up It’s Free Roam VR Beta

VR support in Unreal can be few and far between. Existent are working on smoothing out that gap with some powerful tools for interaction, multiplayer and broad hardware support. If you’re looking for a solution for a complex VR world Existent which opened up it’s beta last week may be your best choice.

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Toolbox

The Outpost’s Toolbox is for new or updated tools to help make your Unreal Engine experience a little bit easier.

Flow Graph

Flow Graph is a powerful node editor plugin for designing narrative rich games. The plugin adds useful tools for scripting in game events. The plugin helps developers get closer to a pipeline closer to those used for RPG’s or games like the Witcher. It’s worth checking out the presentation to get your head around some of the concepts but it should help you go further, quicker for those with narrative heavy games.

MetaMidi Toolkit

From a Creative Australia funded project comes a Blueprint toolkit for Unreal Engine 5.4 to create adaptive music more intuitively with more robust Midi tools. It offers flexibility for composers while simplifying the process for designers. It works with Unreal Engine 5.4 and up.

Pinboard

Check out the latest art we have been keeping a lookout for this week.

JangaFX published this impressive short film this week displaying just how far you can push Unreal Engine but also how powerful their Elemental Suite can be. We are seeing more and more creators turn to Unreal Engine for filmmaking and this is a great step in showing off what you can achieve.

That’s it from the outpost this week, we’ll be back with more from the horizon next weekend.

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