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Train2Game News FMOD Studio for Unreal Engine 4

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UE4Firelight Technologies announced today that its next generation adaptive audio workstation and engine, FMOD Studio, is now available to Unreal Engine 4 users.

Built as a native UE4 plugin, the integration offers a truly plug and play experience without needing any source code patches.

FMOD Studio fully integrates with UE4’s powerful visual scripting interface, Blueprint, enabling those without coding experience to quickly and easily hook up sounds and music in their game.

“We think Blueprint will be a revelation for sound designers and composers.” said Geoff Carlton, Senior Developer at Firelight Technologies. “Without a single line of code, you have full control over the audio from design through to implementation.”

With the launch of the integration, Firelight Technologies have also released a video tutorial series (available on the FMOD YouTube Channel – FMODTV) that demonstrates the FMOD Studio workflow in a UE4 demo level.

Download FMOD Studio for UE4 and the tutorial assets at www.fmod.com
See the tutorials on FMODTV at www.youtube.com/fmodtv
For more information on Unreal Engine 4 visit www.unrealengine.com

Train2Game News GitHub offering students free dev tools

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GitHubGitHub has packaged together a selection of development tools for students free of charge.

The GitHub Student Developer Pack includes free access to crowdsourcing platform Crowdflower, $100 in platform credit to cloud hosting solution DigitalOcean and access to DNS management service DNSimple at no cost.

Other free tools and credit in the bundle include Atom, Bitnami, HackHand, Namecheap, Orchestrate, Screenhero, SendGrid, Stripe and Travis CI.

Unreal Engine 4 is also included for free to students as part of the package, though free access can be arranged directly with Epic through its new UE4 licence for academics.

To get the pack, you must prove you are aged 13 or over and are currently enrolled on a degree or diploma course.

You can find more information about what’s included in the pack and how to sign up here.

Source: Develop

Train2Game News Premade character animations for UE4

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Mixamo CharacterMixamo has made a number of its character animations available free for Unreal Engine 4 subscribers on the UE4 marketplace.

The firm has released 15 ready-to-use characters and seven animations to the store. Available animations include walk, run, shoot, sword, idle, jump and run jump.

“We’re extremely excited to have our animations included in Epic Games’ growing Marketplace,” said Mixamo CEO Stefano Corazza.

“The Unreal Engine exists to speed the process of game development, and we share a similar philosophy for 3D character creation and animation. Now, with built-in access to ready-made animations, UE4 developers can get their characters moving in minutes, rather than spending hours keyframing animations from scratch.”

Source: Develop

Train2Game News Unreal 4.2 rolls out vehicle support

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Unreal VehicleWork continues on Epic Games’ latest iteration of the powerful Unreal Engine with the 4.2 update adding vehicles, camera animations and more.

The new features included in the update were revealed via the Unreal Engine Twitch feed and posted on the tech’s official site.

One of the major addition is full support of vehicles, encompassing four-wheel drive, front-wheel drive and rear-wheel drive vehicles. While the default drive train simulations assumes a vehicle has 4 wheels, any number of wheels will work.

There is even an automobile template to get developers starting on making their own cars or other forms of transportation. To demonstrate how vehicles work in Unreal Engine 4, a sample vehicle game based around off-road racing will be made available for free on the UE Marketplace when 4.2 goes live.

Also on the Marketplace will be a sample of stylised rendering, showcasing the flexibility of Epic’s new engine. This will also be free.

Meanwhile support for camera animations has also been added to the development platform. Building on the CameraAnims established in UE3, UE4 expands on the system with Blueprint support and the ability to use up to eight animations at once.

You can find a full list of the new additions, which also include user-defined Blueprint structures and animation debug features at www.unrealengine.com.

Unreal Engine was launched back in March, with Epic Games announcing the development platform would be available for just $19 per month.

Source: Develop