Making your own digital extras in an afternoon yo. I never liked how some crowd simulation software sell you their rigged characters separately.
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probably more of a shader/model complexity issue. I can't imagine the hair strands playing well with RT on consoles
Go to the website and "buy" it in your browser, then open it and it will trigger the EGS launcher to download it.
We're long past the uncanny valley of a team is given the proper time and resources.
Any announced upcoming games, with character customization, planning to take advantage of this tech?
Man some of the replies here have me legitimately confused...this looks REALLY good.
How is this NOT photorealistic, and also why in the world would you compare hand crafted main characters from games like tLou2 which took months to create, to a character creator that can generate multiple characters in hours.
It's like I woke up in a world where AAA games like assassins creed valhalla never existed lol
How is this NOT photorealistic, and also why in the world would you compare hand crafted main characters from games like tLou2 which took months to create, to a character creator that can generate multiple characters in hours.
It's like I woke up in a world where AAA games like assassins creed valhalla never existed lol
Yeah. Talking about it other devs today, and we're all pretty astonished. For a project focusing on photo-realism, even something that gets you 60% of the way there with a model in a quarter of the time is a HUGE benefit. Hell, even for projects that aren't aiming for photo-realism it's a boon for bi-pedal humanoids.
Considering that you get a full export, you should have the ability to change whatever.
"When you're happy with your human, you can download the asset via Quixel Bridge, fully rigged and ready for animation and motion capture in Unreal Engine, and complete with LODs. You'll also get the source data in the form of a Maya file, including meshes, skeleton, facial rig, animation controls, and materials."
This is less about character customization, and more about drastically cutting down the time spent in the character modeling pipeline.
The Unreal Engine tech is incredible.. in a really short amount of time you can get amazing results but I also believe that the quality we saw on TLOU 2 is still better than this.
This image is in-game btw.
The hair technology is much better on Epic meta human demo. This is more comparable to Spiderman MM or FIFA with strand hair technology.
I think it also depends on your standard of photorealism.
For me, photorealism means you can't tell the difference between it and real life. It's past uncanny valley.
it scales from film quality to cyberpunk 2077LODs
- LOD 0–1 use strand-based geometry on high-end platforms (Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, and PC), but also supports card representations for other platforms.
- LOD 2–4 use card-based representations.
- LOD 5–7 use simplified hair meshes.
Or going to the barber and you can check out which haircut you get.
Yeah I was talking about Quixel Megascans.
I dont use Quixel Mixer I imagine thats what you are talking about?
Is there a public production ready build of Unreal Engine 4 with RT enabled for console?
4.25 brought production ready RT to the engine and initial support for the consoles
4.26 brought the hair/fur, volumetric clouds but I didnt see any mention of RT for consoles yet.
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production ready RT and next gen support came at the same time with 4.25. there's already one UE4 game with RT on consoles (the medium, and I think Observer as well)
The Medium likely isnt running on 4.25 it came out like 6 months ago.
RT has been in engine since 4.22 they could have taken the plunge with preproduction RT for their game.
I've known about this for a bit and was absolutely gobsmacked when I first saw it in action. Glad to see it officially revealed. Streamlining dev tools is always important and tools like Metahuman takes that to the next level. Expect many more improvements in content creation accessibility over the next few years as the industry continues to expand and become more and more efficient.
Traditional approaches to game development aren't really sustainable in the long run so it's great to see the industry evolving.
Traditional approaches to game development aren't really sustainable in the long run so it's great to see the industry evolving.
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do you know if Epic talked about expanding the stylistic options in the future?
Im guessing itll expand more.
3Lateral and CubicMotion had this demo like 2 years ago or something.
This is pretty remarkable. Between stuff like this and the iPhone facial animation capture (and maybe even some IK solutions with VR headsets/trackers) it's really remarkable what you might be able to do from home as a one man wrecking crew. Being able to "Garage Band" your way to AAA-ish visuals will be a game changer.
No idea if they're planning to do that. There really isn't a technical reason that they wouldn't be able to though. I imagine it's just a matter of priorities.
What? People not wanting to use face cam so they use vtube characters aren't a bad thing. It's probably even better for their anxiety actually. Also I've seen demos this person set up, she did a great job with this character. The facial animations matching her own is very convincing and not weird. You know, characters in games use similar tech and no one is calling that "hell".Its a hell that we are already in.
This is just going to make it alot alot worse.
If I can't make this, I'll pass
Lobos was the first thing I thought of too.
So what is an example of a photorealistic character then? I can't think of a single game character that has gotten past the uncanny valley.
Saw the trailer. Only saw like one option of afrocentric hair. Not impressed, CC is already on par with almost every CC system we've had for the last 20+ years.
None have reached that standard imo.
I don't know if we ever will.
Environments will get there before characters.
This is not specifically aimed at you, but worth noting that Cubic and to a larger extent 3L have had involvement in the overwhelming majority of mid to high tier games for pretty much the entire generation. They're practically industry standard at this point, but the quiet tech stuff that happens behind the scenes is not generally something that gets exciting articles written about it.
Basically you've probably played quite a lot of their work already haha
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Absolutely looks like current gen humans as he said. We haven't seen such detail on last gen.
No lies detected. This is awesome for people with anxiety, who still want to share great content with their fanbase. I didn't actually knew streamers are using digital humans sometimes, but it's good this option exist.
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Yes, it's stunning. Just imagine random NPC on PS5 and Series X|S with close to that amount of movement and fidelity. Game changer, especially for RPG with many different NPC you talk to in longer sequences.
Won't beat Naughty Dog or equally talented studios main protagonist on PS5 or Xbox in quality or animation, but it's really impresse tech, considering the quality of the models and how fast they are created in comparison. Will lift random NPC to new heights.
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I don't see why not. there's a lot of flexibility in the controls that in the hands of a capable animator and enough time, can match those of Naughty Dog. and these models were made for higher-than-current-gen spec at the highest end anyway