This week Epic Games has released 2 new sample environments on Fab!
Quixel released a new environment called the Dark Ruins. One of the best ways to learn is by example and by breaking this apart you can see how Epic Games Quixel team creates environments that leverage the Megascans library. Recently the entire Megascans library was updated so this environment showcases the standards that the Quixel team follows when using the assets.
But this environment releases after the previous Quixel environments, the Medieval Game and Abandoned Apartment environments, became no longer available when Fab launched. Which is a shame since they were some of the best learning resources. This sets a bad precedent that learning resources can be removed by Epic Games without warning.
In a recent livestream the Quixel team says that the environments were removed because they were out of date and that they are looking to redistribute them in the future. More than likely this means that those environments did not conform to the new standards set by the Dark Ruins example. My suggestion is for the old environments to be redistributed under Epic Games Fab account and not Quixel’s. The projects could be titled “legacy“ so it is clear that they are old.
Another new sample environment and game is Project Titan: a massive open world that showcases how to create a large world with multiple unique biomes and locations. This is the best showcase of UE5’s level streaming technology called world partition.
You can watch this video to see a walkthrough of its key features and how you can leverage the tech in your own projects.
This world was created by the Unreal community as part of a collaborative art jam. Epic Games divided the map into plots and gave these plots of land to over 1,400 Unreal users. Each participant created something unique in their land and it all came together to make a single game environment. This is the first art jam of its kind.
It is a testament to the creativity of this community and I highly recommend checking it out. It is incredibly fun walking around and seeing what people came up with.
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