Go to Unreal Engine 4 website and click on "Get Unreal" icon. If you do not have an account, go ahead and sign up. Registration is free and it is required to download and use UE4. This is also called Epic Game Launcher. Unreal Engine Launcher is very important. It is a portal through which you will be able to download and launch any Unreal Engine version you want.
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In our continuing effort to provide industry-leading effects tools, Niagara has received an expanded feature set, substantial quality of life improvements, and Niagara effects are now supported on Nintendo Switch. You can now sample a 2D texture or a pseudo-volume 2D texture in your particle scripts!
Create amazing effects such as rendering the scene's depth, color and normal information using a Scene Capture Actor and use that to reconstruct the environment within a Niagara particle system with the particles' potential and kinetic energy visualized as emissive light. There's also support for OpenColorIO for accurate color calibration, and Beta support for multi-GPU rendering, together with easier multi-camera configuration.
Pixel Streaming is now production-ready, with a host of quality improvements and an upgraded version of WebRTC. This powerful technology enables Unreal Engine and applications built on it to run on a high-powered cloud virtual machine and to deliver the full-quality experience to end users anywhere on a normal web browser on any device. The strand-based Hair and Fur system is now production-ready, giving you the ability to simulate and render high-quality hair, fur, and feathers to create believable humans and animals.
Cards and meshes can be generated in engine for lower-end hardware Experimental. Author and render realistic or stylized skies, clouds, and other atmospheric effects with full artistic freedom, with a new Volumetric Cloud component that can interact with Sky Atmosphere, Sky Light, and up to two directional lights. Components can be lit and shadowed dynamically, in line with time-of-day updates in real time. Create believable bodies of water within your landscapes with a new Water system that gives you the ability to define oceans, lakes, rivers, and islands using splines.
Built-in fluid simulation enables characters and objects to realistically interact with the water; the fluid also responds to Terrain, such as reflecting ripples off the shore, and reacting to river flow maps. You can now output render passes, including matte IDs, camera motion vectors, Z-depth, ambient occlusion, reflections, and more, from the Movie Render Queue.
In addition, there is now support for voice communication between participants over VOIP using in-engine peer-to-peer protocols. These can also be seamlessly connected to widgets—such as radial dials, sliders, or color pickers—in web applications, enabling users to quickly change properties from an external device such as an iPad.
We continue to improve Chaos with the intention of replacing PhysX as the default physics system. In addition, constraint positions can now be set explicitly, joint stability for longer chains is improved, and the solver is more stable at lower iteration counts than PhysX.
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