We are super excited to announce that you can now turn on regional server matchmaking and Make Live will distribute and start servers closest to your users location across Europe, Asia, and North America.
Enabling this feature will allow your users to get the best experience and lowest latency available. “On Demand” will start servers in the nearest region the user is located. Not only that but you can now distribute “Always On” instances across multiple regions.
We are also pleased to add a new GPU to our line up of already great GPUs, the NVIDIA® Tesla™ T4 slots nicely in between the NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 1080Ti and NVIDIA® GeForce™ RTX 3080. This is a great value option and is widely available for use across Europe, Asia, and North America regions today.
As we continue to roll out additional GPU options and expand our region availability, we give you complete flexibility to configure which GPUs to use across every region. We hope this helps everyone test and decide what options are best for your users experiencing your Unreal Engine Pixel Streaming applications.
Check out our feature highlight video over on YouTube that showcases how easy multi-region support can be configured with Make Live.
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We look forward to seeing what new experiences you deploy with further reach than ever before.
As always we would love any feedback you may have, you can find us on Live Chat or Twitter over at <a href="https://twitter.com/makelivehq">@MakeLiveHQ</a>.

Ensure the lowest latency possible with multi-region servers.

Multi-Region Support

Hot on the heels of our new launcher being released we are continuing to improve and roll out new customisation features. We can now announce that we have rolled out the ability to embed your projects into your own website, blog, or even Unreal Engine community posts.
In order to embed your projects you can simply use the following snippet. All you need to do is set the src attribute to be your project url with the addition of the suffix ?embed=true.
For ease of implementation here is a snippet that can be copy and pasted into your own HTML / web applications:
<pre><code class="language-html">&lt;iframe
 width=&quot;960&quot;
 height=&quot;540&quot;
 src=&quot;https://launch.make.live/make-live/pirate-island?embed=true&quot;
 title=&quot;Make Live Player&quot;
 frameborder=&quot;0&quot;
 allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
</code></pre>
If we take the above example and copy and paste it within this blog post, here is the result:
<iframe
 width="960"
 height="540"
 src="https://launch.make.live/make-live/pirate-island?embed=true"
 title="Make Live Player"
 frameborder="0"
 allowfullscreen></iframe>

A fully playable embedded Make Live project that allows everyone to start showcasing Unreal Engine Pixel Streaming applications anywhere you like.
As we look to improve and roll out even more customisation options and toolkits to bridge communication from the browser to Unreal Engine we would love to hear your feedback.
You can always find us on Live Chat or Twitter over at <a href="https://twitter.com/makelivehq">@MakeLiveHQ</a>.

Embed Unreal Engine Projects into your own website.

Embeddable URLs Available

Today we&#39;re excited to show you our new project Launcher. When we initially launched Make Live <a href="https://make.live/blog/introducing-make-live">back in April</a> we made our launcher so that it immediately took you straight into a project. This worked well initially but as we look to provide more possibilities and customisation it&#39;s now clear to us how limiting it is.
With our new Launcher (we refer to it as “Launcher v2”), instead of taking you straight into the project we have an interstitial screen that provides information about your project. By default, your project title will be shown. However, we&#39;re also adding the ability for you to customise this in your project settings:
<img src="/images/blog/support/project-customisation.png" alt="Project Customisation">
In particular, the new “Description” field gives you a great way to provide some useful information to the user of your project as you can see here:
<img src="/images/blog/support/launcher-v2.png" alt="Launcher v2">
These options are just the beginning and in the near future we hope to make more customisation available to all our customers to brand and enhance your projects for your users.
Try our new Launcher for yourself in the <a href="https://launch.make.live/make-live/pirate-island">Pirate Island</a> project.
We’d love to hear from you on Live Chat or Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/makelivehq">@MakeLiveHQ</a>.

A look at our new launcher.

Introducing Our New Launcher

As we strive to make our developer experience best in class, one thing the team has been working hard on is to ensure that you can get the information you need when things don’t quite work out when deploying an Unreal Engine Pixel Streaming application.
We are super happy to announce two new additions to our developer experience available today on the Make Live platform.
<h2 id="live-logs-from-servers">Live Logs from Servers</h2>
As of today you can now view your active servers and view live logs from your Unreal Engine servers as they start up and run. No need to refresh, you can keep your browser window open and logs will update as and when they are output from your Unreal Engine application in near real-time.
Not only that, the Make Live platform will parse the logs so that they are presented within Make Live as a readable and easy to search format. Making finding and resolving problems a much easier task than ever before.
<img src="/images/blog/support/logs_demo.png" alt="Live Logs Demo">
Note:
We recommend to package your project with “Development” mode selected whilst you are in your early stages of building your Unreal Engine Pixel Streaming application as “Shipping” mode will not output logs as you might expect.
<h2 id="a-new-error-status-for-servers">A New “Error” Status for Servers</h2>
<img src="/images/blog/support/logs_errors.png" alt="Live Logs Demo">
Another great addition that ties in with the live server logs announcement is that we now handle any Unreal Engine startup or crashes in a much more graceful way. We will now move any server that could not startup or experiences a crash into an error state that can be seen in your “Server Live View”. From here you can simply check out the logs and see what went wrong and look to resolve, package and re-deploy.
We hope with these two new additions it provides a fantastic insight to troubleshoot and help get your Unreal Engine Pixel Streaming applications deployed for everyone to use.
Of course the Make Live team is always here to help, please do get in touch if you have any feedback or questions.
We’d love to hear from you on Live Chat or Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/makelivehq">@MakeLiveHQ</a>.

Debug issues with live logs direct from your servers.

Live Logs for Servers

As we roll out new features continuously over the coming months to improve our offering and provide even more managed services we wanted to address one of the biggest requests around start up times and scaling options.
We now have two scaling options available with more features to come including scheduling and additional regions across the globe (more on that soon).
<h2 id="on-demand">On Demand</h2>
When creating new projects within the Make Live platform, we default to “On Demand” servers. This allows us to scale to zero and ensure you never pay a single dollar when your experience is not running. Create a project and simply select the GPU you wish to run your Unreal Engine experience. Once a user visits your launch url a relevant GPU will be allocated “On Demand”. Make Live continues to do this until the maximum number of servers has been reached (configurable project setting). At this point if all servers are full the Make Live queuing system will enable automatically giving users a seamless experience where they can wait in a queue to join once the next server becomes available.
A great advantage of this is that you only pay for the time the session / server was running for, it is a very cost effective way of running your Unreal Engine experience but comes with the cost of a slower start up time.
<h2 id="always-on--blended-option">Always On / Blended Option</h2>
We are happy to announce that we now offer an additional project configuration named “Always On”. Make Live now allows you to run and scale your Unreal Engine experience for sustained periods of time.
A great way is to set a base amount of servers that you want to have running for the amount of expected traffic and budget for your Unreal Engine experience. This way users when visiting the launch url will get an instant connection. What is even more awesome is that our “On Demand” servers automatically start up if each of the “Always On” servers has been taken by users coming to your launch url.
This gives you the best of both worlds, being able to blend a base amount of “Always On” servers and letting Make Live take care of the rest to supplement your users with “On Demand” servers when needed. Users that visit and are allocated to an “Always On” server get instant access with zero startup time.
A final use case is that we can now provide capacity for huge one off events, if you are looking to host an experience at scale for a limited time, music event or virtual conference. Simply enable “Always On” servers for your event and then disable it once your event finishes. Make Live will scale up and scale down for you with a simple toggle in your project settings.
Watch this space for additional regions to become available and spread the amount of servers you need across regions with the newly available “Always On” feature.
Please get in touch if you have any feedback. You can find us on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/makelivehq">@MakeLiveHQ</a>.

Blend “Always On” with 'On Demand' servers today.

“Always On” Scaling Now Available

We want to say a huge thank you to all of our beta testers in the last couple of months. You’ve helped us find lots of issues and it’s been fantastic seeing how different people from all sorts of industries have been using Unreal Engine Pixel Streaming to deliver unique experiences. It’s given us lots to think about in terms of future features!
<h2 id="new-pricing">New Pricing</h2>
From the 1st June we’ll be enabling billing for everyone on Make Live. Upon logging in for the first time you’ll be asked to enter a credit/debit card to continue and in return we’ll credit your account with US$10. We’ll then invoice on the first of every month.
To coincide with these changes we’ll also be tweaking our prices to ensure the best value for our customers. The changes are as follows:
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>GPU</th>
<th>Previous price per minute</th>
<th>New price per minute</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody><tr>
<td>NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 1080Ti</td>
<td>US$0.03</td>
<td>US$0.022</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>NVIDIA® GeForce™ RTX 3080</td>
<td>US$0.035</td>
<td>US$0.032</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>NVIDIA® GeForce™ RTX 3090</td>
<td>US$0.042</td>
<td>US$0.048</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
These prices do not include local taxes that may be applicable.
<h2 id="new-always-on-feature">New “Always On” Feature</h2>
Since the European Beta went live one of the most requested features was to have a limited amount of servers always running so that wait times were reduced. We’re delighted to announce that from the 1st June you’ll be able to set a number of “Always On” instances to achieve this. As a project owner, you’re in full control of this can adjust your “Always On” and “On Demand” instances.
In the future we hope to expand on this feature and enable you to schedule when your “Always On” instances are created.
<h2 id="new-empty-instance-scale-down-feature">New “Empty Instance Scale Down” Feature</h2>
We’re also introducing a new feature to give you more control over how quickly server instances will be terminated after the last person leaves. During the European Beta we’ve had this fixed at one minute but from 1st June you’ll be able to change this for yourself. This means if you don’t want to commit to an “Always On” instance you can make sure your “On Demand” instances will be up and running a lot longer to handle any demand.
<img src="/images/blog/make-live-is-coming-out-of-beta-new-features.png" alt="New Make Live Features in App">
<h2 id="to-the-future">To the Future</h2>
Once again, we want to thank everyone who took part in the beta and we’re looking forward to the next stage of Make Live. We have some exciting features coming in the future and we can’t wait to show you when they’re ready.
Please get in touch if you have any feedback. You can find us on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/makelivehq">@MakeLiveHQ</a>.

Everything you need to know.

Make Live is Coming out of Beta

A huge industry that can take advantage of Unreal Engine Pixel Streaming is ArchViz. The ability to instantly share and present high fidelity 3D walkthroughs and presentations has never been more compelling. A popular piece of software used in this space is <a href="https://www.twinmotion.com/">Twinmotion</a>.
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This week we have launched a new <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrduicS-kII">Video Guide</a> on our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3zV1YOAMNjl9P8Nxt2LJkA">YouTube channel</a> that showcases how quick and easy it is to deploy your Twinmotion application with Make Live. Use the following Unreal Engine plugins with a slight configuration update to allow compiling for Linux (see video). Plugins are available on the Unreal Engine Marketplace for free:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/twinmotion-content-for-unreal-engine-plugin-beta">Twinmotion Content for Unreal Engine Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/21cab2d84a794b7bab359eb1ba5d3e74/">Datasmith Twinmotion Importer Plugin</a></li>
</ul>
This can be incredibly useful for those wanting to create your own fully customized experience and features backed by a <a href="https://www.twinmotion.com/">Twinmotion</a> project. Simply import your <a href="https://www.twinmotion.com/">Twinmotion</a> project files directly into Unreal Engine via the Datasmith plugin. Deploying fully customisable <a href="https://www.twinmotion.com/">Twinmotion</a> presentations and projects has never been easier.
We hope that this makes sharing ArchViz that really stand out much easier for you and prospective clients.
Watch this space for our additional Make Live collaboration tools coming soon, allowing collaboration for ArchViz no matter where you, your team and your clients are located.

New guide to show you how to deploy ArchViz Twinmotion projects.

Deploy Twinmotion with Make Live

We are super happy to launch the initial version of our Unreal Engine 5 Open Source Multiplayer / Open World template that can provide a quick and easy jump start to test and create multiplayer and open world experiences and applications.
Simply create your world, package for Linux, and start testing your creations in the browser by deploying them using Make Live.
Using the power of many built-in Unreal Engine 5 features such as World Partition, Online Subsystem, Pixel Streaming and the Gameplay Ability System plugins. The template is a great way to kickstart and get creative with creating worlds that take you and your friends to another planet, world, or application experience. Additionally it has LAN multiplayer support all setup and ready to go for testing that works when deployed to Make Live.
There is a long road ahead to keep maturing the template but it is important step forward of wanting to allow as many creators, studios, and teams the ability to create applications and &quot;worlds where everyone can play&quot;. The template is open source as we look to get community involvement and push what can be done to help jump start everyones development with Unreal Engine 5.
Dedicated server(s) would need to be rolled out in order to support mass amounts of players and persistent game modes. Watch this space for how we want to make this easy for people using the Make Live platform.
Template Features Include:
<ul>
<li>C++ Unreal Engine project exposing functionality to Blueprints as much as possible</li>
<li><a href="https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/pixel-streaming-in-unreal-engine/">Unreal Engine Pixel Streaming Plugin Enabled</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/gameplay-ability-system-for-unreal-engine/">Unreal Engine Gameplay Ability System</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/world-partition-in-unreal-engine/">Unreal Engine 2KM x 2KM Map using World Partition</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/online-subsystem-in-unreal-engine/">Unreal Engine Online Subsystem Implementation (NULL by default)</a></li>
</ul>
Full Source Code:
<a href="https://github.com/make-live/multiplayer">https://github.com/make-live/multiplayer</a>
We have also created a short tutorial video showcasing how easy it is to create a basic world with the template and deploy with Make Live.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IgtVQcO-Og">Video Tutorial</a>
Don&#39;t have time to clone the repository? No problem. We will continue to deploy the latest version of the template on Make Live so you can see the base functionality right in your browser at:
<a href="https://launch.make.live/make-live/open-world">https://launch.make.live/make-live/open-world</a>
If you decide to create something with the template, please do not hesitate to drop us a <a href="https://twitter.com/MakeLiveHQ">tweet</a> or <a href="https://make.live">live chat message</a> and we will look to host and feature your creation on our <a href="https://make.live/community">Community Page</a> for FREE.

Our new open source multiplayer / open world template is now available.

Unreal Engine 5 - Multiplayer Template

As part of maturing the platform we have looked to really focus on our cold starts (and we will continue to do so for the foreseeable future). Cold starts meaning when your project has not had traffic for a little while the Make Live platform scales your GPUs down to zero.
We believe getting cold starts as fast as possible is key to help bring Pixel Streaming to more people with the most cost effective solution to not pay a single cent when no traffic is visiting your project. Not only does it bring a huge cost benefit but it also opens up the possibility of deploying larger and higher fidelity worlds and experiences with consistent and acceptable startup times.
We are happy to release a huge improvement we have made this week using a fairly common concept relatable to lazy loading.
We have found that it cuts start up time in half or more depending on the size of the project once an initial GPU has spun up to serve the first user. Once an initial version of your project has started we cache various parts of the project data aggressively.
Subsequent launches are able to take advantage of the now cached version of your project, resulting in much faster and consistent start up times. Once a new version of your project is uploaded the cache gets invalidated and the cycle repeats.
This is available as standard to all projects at no extra cost, you can check out all of the projects on our <a href="https://make.live/community">community page</a> that now take advantage of this feature.
For example the <a href="https://launch.make.live/make-live/bakery">bakery</a> is one of the larger projects at around 3GB in total size, cold starts now only take approx. 1 minute 30 seconds, previously it would take around 5 minutes.
With the new cache feature in place all projects should be fully running at around the 1 minute 30 second mark after an initial start up.
We are excited to see what you create and share!

Cutting cold starts by half and beyond.

Faster Startup with Caching

We&#39;ve just added our new <a href="/community">Community</a> page where we&#39;ll be showcasing some amazing experiences from artists and creators across the community. Anyone on any device can try out each one to see the power of Unreal Engine Pixel Streaming for themselves. Each session is limited to five minutes so that everyone can enjoy them.
Have a stroll around <a href="https://launch.make.live/make-live/art-gallery">Dekogon Studios&#39; Art Gallery</a> or walk around <a href="https://launch.make.live/make-live/restaurant">MonkeyRED&#39;s Restaurant</a>. One day, hopefully we can go for a swim in the tempting swimming pool out back! Whatever you do, make sure you don&#39;t miss the incredible <a href="https://launch.make.live/make-live/pirate-island">Pirate Island by Darchall Studio</a>. If you&#39;re on desktop, press &quot;P&quot; on your keyboard and sit back for a full flyover of the island! 🏝
We&#39;re hoping to add lots more entries in the coming weeks and if you have a project you&#39;d like to get featured then feel free to <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfK66NCjZVzp8jzUa4k-i5-PNTJoSBnflhReXqRFiDMjmh8QA/viewform?usp=sf_link">submit the project to us</a>.

Featuring great projects across the community.

Announcing the Community Showcase

At Make Live we believe that Pixel Streaming should be available to all.
The ability to quickly and easily to show a complex scene using the power of Unreal Engine in the browser is a game-changer. From an indie game developer getting feedback on their game by a friend to a real estate developer showing prospective buyers around a new home, the possibilities are endless.
Setting up Pixel Streaming requires some specialist knowledge and can come at considerable cost. At Make Live we&#39;ve done all the hard work so that all you need to do is upload your built project from Unreal Engine and you can be using it in the browser from any device in no time!
At the moment you can run your projects on one of three excellent graphics cards with Make Live. We only use consumer graphics cards you&#39;d expect to find in any normal gaming PC:
<ul>
<li>NVIDIA GeForce™ GTX 1080 Ti</li>
<li>NVIDIA GeForce™ RTX 3080</li>
<li>NVIDIA GeForce™ RTX 3090</li>
</ul>
To see how easy it is to package and deploy your project check out our YouTube video:
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Make Live is currently in closed beta and you can get access by dropping us a message on Twitter, Live chat or using this <a href="https://forms.gle/sEohjD263whaipSA7">form</a>. It&#39;s currently free to use whilst we are in this stage but our intended pricing is on the <a href="/#pricing">site</a>. You can make your project public or private as well as controlling how many users can access your project at any time. We have some great features in the near future and beyond such as:
<ul>
<li>Project versioning - keep your old builds and go back and launch any version at any time.</li>
<li>Guest invite links for private projects - invite other people into your project for a limited time.</li>
<li>User controls in a multi-user session - show everyone else your favourite part of the project!</li>
<li>Pixel Streaming commands/events - send Pixel Streaming commands and events back into the Unreal project and vice versa to enable unlimited customisation and metaverse applications.</li>
</ul>
At Make Live we think this is just the beginning of what is possible with this technology and we&#39;re excited to see where it goes. We&#39;ve got big plans for what we want to do and how we want to build on this technology and we&#39;d love for you to join us!

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