Unreal Engine 4.26 introduces a new Volumetric Cloud component that can interact with Sky Atmosphere, Sky Light, and up to two directional lights, improving the quality of both realistic and stylized skies, clouds, and other atmospheric effects. Immersive natural worlds and environments The feature is integrated with Control Rig, which now offers an experimental full-body IK solution in addition to the standard FK/IK. Animators can preview skeleton animations to see how one skeleton blends into the next, and match joint placement for a smooth transition between clips. LOD generation is built in, and users are now able to generate cards and meshes for lower-end hardware in-engine as an experimental feature.Īdding further believability to their characters’ movements, users can now create animations in Sequencer by blending animation clips such as motion-captured data the workflow will be familiar to animators who have worked in other nonlinear animation editors. Hair and Fur now features a new Asset Groom Editor for setting up properties, and compatibility with features such as DOF and Fog. Hair and Fur is production-ready in 4.26, delivering the ability to edit, simulate, and render true strand-based hair, fur, and feathers. CARY, NC - Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 4.26, delivering powerful new tools that extend the ability of creators to craft believable real-time environments and characters for games, film and TV, visualization, and training and simulation as well as continued advancements to Unreal’s virtual production toolset higher-quality media output improved design review tools and much more.

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