State of Unreal
The State of Unreal livestream has wrapped up—watch recordings of the keynote and tech talks here.
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Well that's horrifying. Good physics though.
That dude sounds like Dave Filoni. So now Dave Filoni works on Unreal projects that's how it is.
you just had one!
my expectations
- studio acquisition
- Fortnite Lumen update
- Rocket League UE5
- The Matrix Project release
- demo reel of games running on UE5
- Nanite supporting things like foliage
Those who watch to get Twitch drops, a "surprise" spray for Fortnite will be a drop for
watching.
watching.
The odds of that are IMO 0 unless it's for foliage with no deformation of any kind like logs and stuff.
Any rumors about who they are acquiring? And Nanite for foliage would be amazing.
Super IN on this drop
I still feel like Epic hasn't paid enough homage to their past within Fortnite (The Gears collab could've been so much more! especially considering that The Coalition have been tech collaborators with Epic), and we also need UT to come back and for Epic to maybe showcase UE5 with a game of their own that supplements the ever evolving Fortnite.
Do we know who owns CliffyB? It'd a huge get if they acquired him.
Hoping it's an announcement of UE5 coming out of preview- been using it at the game studio I work at- the new workflows for large world building, level instances,etc... are fantastic even if they have been buggy in preview/early access.
I have no idea but always wondered generally is Unreal engine better than all others or just more ubiquitous and known meaning people have more experience with it and does it do things better or worse than others or just more of a package that cuts down on invested time or is it all big label PR hype and just okay and similar compared to other engines?
thats a dev issue, not a engine issue, you cant precompile shaders on pc, and devs seem not wan to do the work to add a option in the menu to do it.
Yeah :/
I remember Horizon ZD initially precompiling shaders. I'd much prefer this than stutters.
I've seen the slides where they hope they can do everything in nanite, which seems far off. Nanite foliage could be semi-static objects with some swaying in the wind maybe, so that could be workable sooner.
This is not true at all :) source: me, a dev who had to dig into it.
On the topic: Very very excited :D
That's not true at all. The New Unreal Tournament being worked on had a lot of community support. The issue was that it was a passion project run by one of their leads and a few internal developers in their spare time. Once Fortnite became a megahit, Epic decided to focus all of their internal game development efforts on that. The community wanted Epic to at least open source all of their work on UT, but that never came to pass.
There are other engines such as RE Engine and indeed now Decima since the latest HZD patch which asynchronously compile the shaders in the background as you play. Even Unity doesn't have the issue these days. It's absolutely an engine issue in the case of UE, one which developers can find their own workarounds for as we've seen with Gears 5 and Borderlands 3, but they really shouldn't have to.