Epic Games has provided Sumo India Studios’ employees with specialised training as the company prepares them to begin using the newest and most powerful version of their games engine software, Unreal Engine 5.
Sumo India Companies, along with other Sumo Digital studios located around the world, are utilising this instrument in order to optimise the effects of the games that they are currently making. Unreal Engine is a well-known and frequently used game production engine. The training that was arranged by Epic Games provided twenty-five members of the Sumo India team with an in-depth look at some of the more popular technologies that are accessible within the engine.
What is Unreal Engine?
Epic Games started work on the Unreal Engine back in 1988 with the intention of creating it for first-person shooter video games. Ever since time, it has experienced rapid expansion as well as progression. In April of 2022, the most recent version of Unreal Engine, version 5, was made available. It is presently utilized for the production of fighting games, role-playing games, stealth games, and other massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). The adaptability and scalability of the Unreal Engine make it possible to create video games for a wide variety of computing devices, from personal computers to gaming consoles.
Here is an official demo of Unreal Engine 5.
Areas covered in the Training
The training was conducted by Arvind Neelakantan covering a magnitude of areas such as Lighting Setup, Importing Assets, Blueprints, Landscapes, Grass/Rocks/Vegetation, and Gameplay framework. Furthermore, Arvind led the group through a variety of subjects, including Character Setup and Movement, Input, Animation, Niagara Effects, and Sounds (Meta sounds). When building interactive scenes and shots, several of the unique characteristics of Unreal Engine 5 were demonstrated in the form of modules. These modules were used to create the scenes and shots.
What Unreal Engine 5 promises to Sumo Digital?
Unreal Engine 5, which helps greatly cut down the amount of time needed to make video games, is now being used by Sumo Digital to build a variety of games. Using the sophisticated real-time 3D design tool, it also assists developers in bringing remarkable real-time experiences to life for users.
It is anticipated that Unreal Engine 5 will be a game-changer in the gaming development arena in the future as a result of its revamped Unreal Editor, enhanced performance, artist-friendly animation capabilities, enlarged mesh creation and editing toolset, and improved tracing path features.
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