Unreal Engine 4.16 Game Engine Launches with More Than 160 Improvements

Epic Games' Alexander Paschall today announced the immediate availability of version 4.16 of the cross-platform and free Unreal Engine game engine for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Unreal Engine 4.16 comes more than three months after the previous update, version 4.15, and some exciting new animation and rendering features, notable performance improvements that would benefit console and mobile game developers, as well as a bunch of quality of life enhancements.

According to the release notes, Unreal Engine 4.16 introduces an amazing new Volumetric Fog feature that lets game developers enhance the mood of their game environments by automatically rendering realistic smoke and fog effects that offer consistent lighting on every inch of the scene, no matter its size.

"Create incredible ambiance and mood in your environments using the new Volumetric Fog," said... (read more)

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