Reading devs being exciting is so cool.
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Unreal Engine 5 Revealed! | Next-Gen Real-Time Demo Running on PlayStation 5
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u sure?
Unreal Engine 4: Real-Time PS4 Tech Demo
Epic Games shows off a new tech demo for Unreal Engine 4 running in real-time on PS4.
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Certainly easier in many ways compared to this generation, from asset creation to optimization and even publishing. There's been a big focus from the platform holders of speeding up the time it takes for things to come "online." It's too early for me to hypothesize new pain points though. We're really just getting started, it's only really been a year for us with next gen hardware.
Never !
Seriously though, it look like whoever you chose next gen is gonna be a banger!
Seems like Epic was planning to do this anyway to show off their engine, as apart of Keighleys summer of games or whatever. Then, either because of close relationships with Sony or Sony reaching out specifically, they tried to rebrand it as a PS5 thing. Makes sense as PS5 has been largely left out of the next gen discussion. However its quite obvious we aren't seeing anything that won't be possible, or even perform better, on SeX as well. Overall very cool demo.
Its less about it looking better but more about how things are going to be far easier to develop. Lots of stuff already done was faked with baked lighitng, normal maps, etc and all that work is unnecessary now if this is true.
Nice piece of linear 3D model tourism. All world animations were clearly pre-scripted. The rocks look rockier than ever!
This demo is really depressing ifs its any signal of next gen. Detailed 3D models crammed in by the millions isn't impressive anymore. Where is the new gameplay??? We have already flown through rich detailed environments. we have already crammed through rocky caves and ran on walls. We have already climbed up cliffs that crumble in a prescripted sequence. This demo was a big nothingburger on the gameplay front.
This demo is really depressing ifs its any signal of next gen. Detailed 3D models crammed in by the millions isn't impressive anymore. Where is the new gameplay??? We have already flown through rich detailed environments. we have already crammed through rocky caves and ran on walls. We have already climbed up cliffs that crumble in a prescripted sequence. This demo was a big nothingburger on the gameplay front.
Has anyone gif'd the part where two holes in the ceiling open up and light pours into the tomb or w/e?
I'm suspecting the flying part is streaming an enormous amount of data from the SSD.
Which is exactly why this was a tech demo....it's showing off the new tech & isn't about the gameplay at all.
Also Arksys. I wanna see what people who focus on cell shading and other nonrealistic art styles end up doing with this.
Also can't wait for Jump Force 2 with even more artistically dissonant visuals.
This demonstration single-handedly eviscerates many bullshit arguments about next-gen - principally that SSDs won't change anything beyond improving load times. The flying sequence at the end just simply is not possible on current-gen hardware and thus isn't something that can be simply "scaled down".
This technology has profound implications for us end users but for developers as well. That's equally exciting.
Bravo to Epic for their accomplishments and giving us an excellent glimpse at technologies built for next-generation hardware from the ground up.
This technology has profound implications for us end users but for developers as well. That's equally exciting.
Bravo to Epic for their accomplishments and giving us an excellent glimpse at technologies built for next-generation hardware from the ground up.
That might have been my favorite part of the demo. We've never had such natural dynamic light without serious elbow grease and smoke 'n mirrors!
Then 3 seconds later you see the statue made out of a bajillion triangles..... and then 5 seconds later "oh, we filled a whole room full of these and more".
Your comment makes me realize there must be some pre-processing. What if I try to drop a 100TB asset into a game? So it must create some kind of detail hierarchy during a baking phase of some kind.
But it makes me wonder why they demoed such a narrow environment if the system runs assets independent on the environment like you say.
I'm gonna stop you right there since you clearly didn't read what I wrote.
I'm not a developer and this showcase wasn't just for developers. It was for consumers. My complaints were about the messaging towards that audience.
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Not all heroes wear capes! All jokes aside... this is legit amazing tech. Nothing but respect for Brian.
I am expecting it to hold up to this. Horizon Frozen Dawn looks insane on current gen.
To be fair we probably wouldn't anyway since current gen systems will probably be supported for a good few years. By the time the transition is over you'll probably see quite a few UE5 (V?) games.
Remember what virtualized geometry could do over a decade ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ned4N4fLF_I - and that was using storage several hundred times slower than the PS5 SSD (not to mention how GPU constrained that was).
Storage limitations become a thing very quickly with unique-detail at this scale&density though.
Oh it can be scaled down, you can pre cache it and have low quality models, lots of repetitions around.
It's not possible to do it in current gen the way it's done here, but to have a flying section like that is possible because we've had fast flying section in games before too.
Such a boring console, no redeeming qualities whatsoever, only advantage is 100p on res. :)
Its more likely to be games made on UE4 and they will be ported and tested to UE5 as quick as they can.
I feel storage speed (as well as storage size since average storage size and game size it was not as large a decade ago) were the biggest reason why virtual texturing kind of died before it caught on. That plus obviously the CPU/GPU constraint they had when using virtual texturing (like with idtech 5)
I lol'd at the "squeeze through the narrow passage slowly" scene. SSDs eliminating load times and devs keep "hidden loading" mechanics because they're "cinematic" would be hilarious.
Seriously?
You get this in the middle of the flying sequence on the Series X!
Im not even a developer and cant fully understand everything that was discussed in the video, but the feeling I'm getting is that the trickery and finesse to make things happen before, theres a lot less of it to do and some stuff straight up works now.
Good point. The Skyrim comparison does seem weird especially with FO4 being a newer and better looking iteration of the same tech.
However, I do think it's worth pointing out the things not shown in the demo since they are more essential to the core design of certain types of games.
That's what you get when you only brute force power with PC parts put together 😎
I can't wait to see actual next gen games and hope people won't be disappointed when they see them and not being in the same league as this tech demo. They will still look absolutely great but at the same time it's great to a glimpse of the future, even if we have to wait for it.
No way does Cyberpunk push this much geometry or have this level of GI. Accept the demo for what it is showing you - a proof of concept. You may prefer Cyberpunk's look, but it's not pushing the same quality of polygons or textures.
Otherwise, show us exactly what you're talking about in Cyberpunk.
Same. I wasn't super serious. :p
I don't expect Decima to throw a bajillion polygons at the screen like UE5 is doing o I guess the super ultra high definity shown here won't be in any other games for a while. But other than that I think this is the kind of lighting and general geometry we can expect from AAA games in near future. Exciting times!
Well, if you want to be a cynic, even with the fast ssd, the demo still ran 30 FPS...
You get this in the middle of the flying sequence on the Series X!
It definitely looks impressive, but chances of games actually looking like that are probably slim aren't they?
(Going by previous history of tech demos)
(Going by previous history of tech demos)