Add in a new new Virtual Shadow Map system, and you have the ability to create worlds, scenes, sets etc with massive amounts of geometric detail that can still be generated in real-time. At the base level, if you have a fabulously detailed and intricate dragon, there’s no point wasting processing power on it if its behind a wall or several kilometres away in the virtual space. It does this by intelligently streaming and processing only the detail that can be perceived by the viewer. Nanite is a new virtualized micropolygon geometry system that allows users to directly import and replicate multi-million-polygon meshes while, and this is the clever bit, maintaining a real-time frame rate without any noticeable loss of fidelity. As game worlds get bigger - and we’re looking at you Elden Ring - these sorts of tools are going to become more and more essential.īut the real excitement for the end user lies in a suite of new technologies that have been designed to amp up photorealism to entirely new levels. It features quite a few significant improvements for developers, including a revamped UI which will be welcomed by many, and a very handy new way to partition off areas of an open world space to allow different teams to work on different areas. If computer graphics touches your business at any point, then everything just got a serious makeover.Įpic Games announced Unreal Engine 5 in May 2020 and right from the get go it garnered a fair deal of excitement. Movie changing, TV changing, virtual set changing, VR changing, … the list goes on.
So it’s a pleasure to come across something that genuinely - and literally - is game-changing. The phrase ‘game-changing’ is happily bandied about in the industry for anything from the latest point release of editing software to a new product that no one is really sure if they want. Close to two years after it was initially unveiled, Unreal Engine 5 is now available for download for free and CG will never be the same again.
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