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Jure Triglav described a method of compressing 1.8 GB of baked imagery into 200 kB worth of neural networks.

This is the second part of Yuri Vorobiev's massive guide on setting up lighting for games in Unreal Engine. You can read Part 1 here.

The World of Tanks Blitz spoke about the major graphics overhaul introduced with the 9.0 update, explained how they relit the game's maps, and discussed the upgraded physics.

Senior Lighting Artist Yuri Vorobiev shared an enormous 2-part breakdown on setting up appealing lighting for games in Unreal Engine.

You can add several lighting sources and customize them.

The Monster Tea Party eliminates the headaches of building scenes, unwrapping UVs, and painting texture maps.

VFX Artist Dylan Browne explained how the UE4's Elemental Demo was re-lit with Unreal Engine 5, spoke about tweaking shaders for the project, and shared some info about porting older projects to UE5.

Senior Lighting Artist Tom Bentkowski talked about the development process behind Imagine, the winner of Epic's Better Light Than Ever challenge, shared the lighting setup in UE5, explained how the LEGO bricks shader was made, and spoke about creating the stop-motion-like effect.

Peyton Varney has demonstrated how to give a 6-years-old environment a more realistic look with UE5's new lighting features.