Village in the Clouds by @lucasenvs, is a personal, game-ready environment project based on the artwork of 简繁, created to improve his understanding of large-scale environments in Unreal Engine 5. The scene was crafted from scratch, including props, vegetation, textures, VFX, landscape and buildings. In addition to this, the main character was created in VRoid Studio, the modeling and texturing of the Yak was done by 3D Artist Guilherme Miles and the art direction was handled by Concept Artist Dan Vitoria. "I built this project from scratch, using mostly information freely available on the internet. Planning and persistence were crucial to achieving this result. Unreal Engine’s native tools made my work much easier, such as the Vertex Paint tool for texturing the house walls and the Niagara System for creating real-time waterfalls." - Lucas Cavalcanti

Ready your projects, the next MegaGrants window is opening in the New Year 📅 The portal will open January 12 through March 20. Get all the info on how you can best prepare your submission here: unrealengine.com/en-US/megag…

In multiplayer projects, there's a performance cost associated with replication on both the clients and server. As a result, it's possible to run into bandwidth saturation, spikes in CPU usage, and other slowdowns that may otherwise be avoided without careful consideration⛓️‍💥 So, in the spirit of connectivity for this #TuesdayTips, we've got a guide for you on ways to optimize a project's replication in order to avoid slowdowns such as hitches and bandwidth saturation: epic.gm/avoiding-hitches-in-…