MetaHuman and Marvelous Designer are two revolutionary tools that are transforming the gaming industry - giving creators access to new levels of realism and customization for their projects. At Streamline Studios, we are always looking to adopt new technologies and processes to help us deliver the highest quality to our clients. With the recent announcement of these tools being added to Unreal Engine for Fortnite, we're excited for the opportunities these tools open for a wide number of creators.
MetaHuman
MetaHuman is a complete framework that enables anyone to create, animate, and use high-fidelity digital human characters in Unreal Engine. With MetaHuman, you can create a huge variety of faces for your projects, making physically plausible characters with real-world scans and carefully selected ranges of skin tones and hair colors. Alternatively, you can use Mesh to MetaHuman to turn a custom mesh of a head into a fully rigged MetaHuman, ready to refine in MetaHuman Creator.
Recently, MetaHuman Creator and MetaHuman Animator have been integrated into Unreal Engine for Fortnite (UEFN), allowing creators to set up photorealistic digital humans as NPCs for their projects. The software has been fine-tuned to prioritize quality and efficiency, leading to a substantial decrease in the average size of a MetaHuman from almost 1GB in Unreal Engine 5 to just 60MB in UEFN. Furthermore, the new LiveLink Hub application allows users to directly transmit motion capture data to UEFN, making the process of creating and animating digital humans more streamlined than ever before.
Marvelous Designer
In addition to MetaHuman, creators can now incorporate dynamic clothing into their projects with the integration of Marvelous Designer. From dynamic fabrics with all the physics to the recreation of other textures or assets either for video games or other brand uses, this tool streamlines the creation of clothing and fabric simulations, allowing users to design garments with realistic draping, texture and movement within their projects.
With these tools, our team can create and animate photorealistic digital humans with expertly simulated custom outfits with new levels of efficiency, unlocking a new level of realism, customization and creativity in our workflow. This allows brands to create immersive experiences where users can interact with avatars and garments that can be configured in real time and generate a virtual experience very close to reality.
We recently announced a new service which utilizes Unreal Engine for Fortnite to create custom marketing experiences for clients within Fortnite, from concept ideation to development and operation of custom maps. The integration of MetaHuman and Marvelous Designer within not only Unreal Engine, but within UEFN as well, promises to elevate immersive experiences within the Fortnite universe and bring more customization and possibility to our clients.
MetaHuman and Marvelous Designer are transforming the gaming industry, unlocking new levels of creativity and efficiency. Their addition to UEFN brings a new level of customization to the platform. We look forward to seeing what these tools help us achieve!
