Unreal Engine Simulation Environment Requirements and Limitations

Robotics System Toolbox™ provides an interface to a simulation environment that is visualized using the Unreal Engine^® from Epic Games^®. When simulating in this environment, keep these requirements and limitations in mind.

Software Requirements

The table summarizes the software requirements for Windows^® and Linux^® platforms.

MATLAB® Release	Unreal Engine Version	Visual Studio® Version
R2024a	5.1	2022
R2024b	5.3	2022

Recommended Hardware Requirements

The table summarizes the recommended hardware requirements for Windows and Linux platforms.

Hardware	Windows	Linux
Graphics card (GPU)	Virtual reality-ready	NVIDIA® GeForce® 960 GTX or higher with latest binary drivers
Video memory (RAM)	8 GB	8 GB
Processor (CPU)	2.5 GHz or faster	2.5 GHz or faster
Processor memory (RAM)	32 GB	32 GB

Limitations

• Mac platforms do not support co-simulation between Simulink^® and the Unreal Engine.

• Simulink Online™ does not support co-simulation between Simulink and the Unreal Engine.

• MATLAB Online does not support sim3d objects or functions.

• The Simulation 3D blocks do not support:

  • Code generation

  • Model reference

  • Multiple instances of the Simulation 3D Scene Configuration block

  • Multiple Unreal Engine instances in the same MATLAB session

  • Rapid accelerator mode

  • Simulink Online simulation.

• For closed-loop simulation, all Simulation 3D blocks must be in the same subsystem.

Related Topics

• Unreal Engine Simulation for Robots

External Websites

• Unreal Engine Documentation