There is a brand new Unreal Engine 5 project that you can download for free! Available now on the Unreal Marketplace, Stack-O-Bot is a great project for those picking up Unreal Engine for the first time or for indie developers looking to try out all the new features in Unreal Engine 5. It uses Lumen, Nanite, World Partition, Control Rig, Metasounds and Enhanced Input System.
We thought it would be useful to give a quick rundown of the shiny new features you will find in this project.
In this video we give you a brief overview of the project.
Download from the Unreal Engine Marketplace: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/stack-o-bot
0:00 Intro
1:50 World Partition
2:51 Level Instances
2:58 Lumen
3:26 Nanite
3:52 Optimization for virtual shadow maps
5:04 Virtual Texture for blending landscape and rocks
5:27 Reactive fern and grass
6:00 Character and Animation Blueprint
7:10 Leaning left and right
7:40 Landing transition and camera shake
8:44 Control Rig with Full Body IK for feet correction
9:45 Character Blueprint Overview
10:20 Enhanced Player Input
11:13 Jetpack with Niagara effect and adaptive MetaSound
14:12 Camera and Player Controller
16:11 “Printing” a new robot
17:36 Flipbook for a face with different moods
18:10 Ragdoll check
18:56 Spawn a new robot
19:39 Dissolve old robot
20:43 Print a new robot
23:15 Interaction Component used in a pressure plate
25:05 Door reacting to the trigger
26:11 Robot pressing a button
28:33 Control Rig to blend from animation into Full Body IK
29:55 Menus, Load & Save, and more
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