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Unreal Engine 5 Revealed! | Next-Gen Real-Time Demo Running on PlayStation 5
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This is all really great stuff. Having the engine handling normal map generation is awesome and should cut down on implementation time. The ray tracing looks great, but streamlining assets is the most exciting thing I've heard yet.
Wow, that looked honestly insanely impressive. I'm am slightly skeptical tbh. The amount of detail being that perfectly dynamically lit with no obvious artifacts, and the speed by which it flies through all that detail at the end was nuts.
It would be nice if every PS5 came pre-packaged with this demo, even if you can't control the character, but just pause it and change the lighting - like that KZ2 commercial on PS3.
It would be nice if every PS5 came pre-packaged with this demo, even if you can't control the character, but just pause it and change the lighting - like that KZ2 commercial on PS3.
This didn't do nothing for me. Looks great, but eh. But i'm happy for everyone feeling great about this.
For me I think it's more that I remember past Unreal Engine version update trailers and how long it took for actual games to approach that level of particles or soft surfaces or whatever was the new 'big add' for the version. It's exciting to see, but at the same time...when are we actually going to SEE that.
I was half joking.
Point I was making was that it's a poor choice to do that given the experience people have with those sequences, not that they were loading.
Most people watching it need to have things explained to a simple level hence the voice over, and they wouldn't know it's an artistic choice by itself.
Someone should do a Mandalorian game with this tech. All the levels/set are already built for the series!
A first look at Unreal Engine 5
Get a glimpse of new and improved real-time rendering features currently in development.www.unrealengine.com
Well in a way were getting UE5 games year 1. Fortnite is planned to migrate to UE5 on 2021.
I think there's a liiiiiiiittle difference in when you're able to fully get your hands on an engine if youre Epic, or anyone else.
Games will start development in current UE4 versions and maybe jump to UE5 after full release. But games made on UE version 5 from day one will take years.
i mean, i don't think the tflops difference is gonna be terribly significant either, haha. both machines are in a very similar class of performance overall, most of this sort of stuff is just console warrior bone-picking
Watch Nvidia make the Ampere upper echelon have 20+ GB of VRAM just so they dont have the drive bottleneck for gaming PCs.
I do not think a demo would want to go through and highlight deficiencies! No reason to be skeptical, it is real-time.
They confirmed that this demo is playable and was recorded straight from the PS5 devkit, so yes, it does count as gameplay footage. Actually, has a very similar gameplay to Uncharted and God of War, imo.
Yeah, its embarrassing. Some people can't help themselves. Both consoles will have very impressive graphics.
Pretty much every single streaming service in existence uses a technique called "Lossy compression". A raw, uncompressed HD video needs somewhere near 1gb/second of data, which not even the fastest internet speeds can consistently achieve right now, and if they could, it would be wasteful and expensive. Lossy compression throws away fine detail to save data. YouTube isn't to blame here, it's limitations to current technology that are to blame.
The level of detail is not even close. A single statue shown in this demo is like 4 blocks of the city in Spider-Man, if their GDC talk is accurate.
Being brown or rainbow color wouldn't change that this is impressive technology wise.
So here's the thing. For AAA games, artists are already doing crazy levels of detail. You typically start with a sculpting tool and built a crazy high detail model and then someone takes that and spends a bunch of time building a lower poly version out of it that tries to maintain as much detail as possible.
So this actually saves time, because you can let artists just do their thing and then it's done.
uhhh
Star Wars: Rogue One's best character was rendered in real time, a cinema first
A breakthrough moment for film, according to Epic
www.polygon.com
SSD in general.
He said it will be available on next gen consoles and high end pc.
Let's make a prediction: They showed a tech demo on PS5 because it is a PlayStation Studios (first/second party) game, and it will be announced soon. However, it won't be a launch game.
It'll probably have 0% of that happening but whatever.
It'll probably have 0% of that happening but whatever.
You can expect trusted partners and big studios to get access to the preview by early 2021 or perhaps late 2020.
You should see it in use in 2022 games.
This is what people aren't understanding. UE5 won't be available until late 2021. If anyone starts trying to develop for it, there will be no game that uses it until 2022 at the earliest. Coupled with the impact Covid will have in 2021 according to other sources, expect even further delays to that as well.
its not just a graphical problem its a gameplay problem too. Especially in games that have large maps, zooming in on a target too far away and the LOD's kick in and can either obscure the target or have a shadow suddenly cast over something.
Next thing That could be hopefully addressed in the next generation following is model clipping.
Yeah were not getting a full game that makes full use of the featureset like the demo until like 2023-2024.
Not having to bake in lighting in every scene should speed up at least one aspect of the development of a game.
That doesn't stop it being a demonstration of the tech, it's something specifically designed to show and highlight all of the new stuff the tech can do.
It'll be really interesting to see how close games can get to that density of fidelity across an entire campaign or an open world game.
I want more tech demos, they are always the most exciting parts of new console reveals and feel we don't see them often enough now.
Well, I guess I should have said that I'm slightly skeptcial of the "realtime on PS5" part. There was no single frame drop that I could notice for example. The tech is clearly insanely impressive though.
Why not? Moments like that build anticipation, because you know that something cool's going to be on the other side.
This was the most exciting part of the Next Gen news so far for me, this looks great and seems to ease development hardships.
uhhhh it does look out of place?, try that with anything that is intended to be invisible and see how it goes.uhhh
Star Wars: Rogue One's best character was rendered in real time, a cinema first
A breakthrough moment for film, according to Epic
Looking amazing and not one word referring to RT? If they can pull off GI this good without leveraging RT hardware, I'm more than happy.
Keep RT for sprinkling of more accurate reflections that don't tank framerates and call it a day I say..
Keep RT for sprinkling of more accurate reflections that don't tank framerates and call it a day I say..
It's still a tech demo. It's just a demo you can walk around in.
Interactive tech demos aren't a new thing. And this is in no way a criticism of this - It looks tremendous.
I can believe most of that is playable now on ps5 dev hardware with an actual controller... but I want to see someone actually playing that flying segment at the end
This whole thing is damn impressive, specially if Nanite works as well as it seems to. Not having to author LODs and lowpoly meshes for some things reduces asset creation to half or less, sometimes. And asset creation is probably where most of the cost and time goes in a game, so... pretty exciting.
If every single asset only has single LoD level / model then there is nothing to swap as you go closer or further out. That would eliminate popin fully, but LoD details are used to keep cost of rendering scenes within certain bounds. UE5 is looking to eliminate that.
Engine and tools will be finalized by end of 2021. Outside of some odd and rushed indie game I don't see anything big landing in 2021 that uses UE5.
And no, I'm not counting Fortnite.
