Unreal Engine 4.11 Released

 

After weeks of preview release, the final release of Unreal Engine 4.11 is here.  This release brings a large number of new features and improvements including:image_6

  • performance and multithreading improvements
  • realistic hair shading
  • realistic eye shading
  • improve skin shading
  • realistic cloth shading (shown right) 
  • capsule (soft) shadows
  • particle depth of field
  • dithered opacity mask
  • dithered LOD crossfades
  • improved hierarchical LOD
  • VR instanced stereo rendering
  • fast physics simulation for characters (Anim Dynamics)
  • live animation recording from gameplay
  • higher quality depth of field
  • platform/sdk updates (Oculus Rift, Steam, nVidia, PlayStation, etc)
  • improved DirectX12 support and DX12 for Xbox One support
  • Metal rendering on MacOS
  • Fast lighting builds
  • Lightmass portals
  • animation pose copying
  • LOD bone reduction tool
  • particle cutouts
  • stereo spatialization
  • sound focus (sound positioning angles)
  • sound occlusion
  • sound concurrency options
  • marker based animation syncing
  • curve blending for animation montages
  • hierarchical LOD outline
  • complex text rendering (experimental)
  • advanced blueprint searching
  • VR head mounted display camera improvements
  • VR Stereo Layers
  • improvements on animation sequencer
  • much, much more.

 

You can read the full release notes here.  As always, the newest version can be downloaded using the Epic Game Launcher.

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