Unreal Engine 5, [UE5 Developer Availability 2022-04-05]

[chris1515]

Interesting they said the Valley of the Ancient asset quality is inferior to last year demo because the demo size was taken in consideration.

 

[Andrew Lauritzen]

Interesting they said the Valley of the Ancient asset quality is inferior to last year demo because the demo size was taken in consideration.

It's worth remembering Valley of the Ancient was designed primarily as an editor workflow demo, while the previous demo was designed as a proper tech demo.

 

[Karamazov]

so that's why it was more impressive last year, they had to contain the size and make it run on a wider range of hardware.

 

[Scott_Arm]

Nanite is just light years ahead of other rendering engines. I'm sure other studios will catch up, but this thing is incredible. It's the kind of massive leap we wanted last console gen but didn't get.

 

[PSman1700]

Nanite is just light years ahead of other rendering engines. I'm sure other studios will catch up, but this thing is incredible. It's the kind of massive leap we wanted last console gen but didn't get.

Playing it on a 2080Ti system, its the most impressive tech demo so far shown thats actually playable.

 

[Scott_Arm]

I wonder if they’ll switch to the mesh shader pipeline for any skeletal meshes that need to support deformation.

 

[SlmDnk]

No pop-in/out. Finally.

 

[manux]

Nanite is just light years ahead of other rendering engines. I'm sure other studios will catch up, but this thing is incredible. It's the kind of massive leap we wanted last console gen but didn't get.

It will be great once ready. At the moment it doesn't for example support animated vegetation. Trying to use ue5 to create hzd forbidden west for example would be out of luck. All the expensive nanite details would be mostly hidden by vegetation that cannot (yet) be made with nanite. Once nanite can do animated objects world changes.

 

[cheapchips]

It will be great once ready. At the moment it doesn't for example support animated vegetation. Trying to use ue5 to create hzd forbidden west for example would be out of luck. All the expensive nanite details would be mostly hidden by vegetation that cannot (yet) be made with nanite. Once nanite can do animated objects world changes.

Why would you be out of luck? If Nanite objects are occluded they're not rendered. You're also missing how much of HFW's visual makeup is floor and large tree trunks etc

 

[Dictator]

so that's why it was more impressive last year, they had to contain the size and make it run on a wider range of hardware.

That is not what was said really - they mentioned they are not using unique normal maps per asset or unique roughness per asset and are using detail tiling for both. Depending upon how that would be set up by the artist, that could of course yield an inferior or superior result while also having a lower disk footprint - it depends on the asset and setup for sure.

 

[zed]

No pop-in/out. Finally.

hmm all these UE5 demos look the same

Im expecting an influx of games set on mars with UE5

 

[chris1515]

It will be great once ready. At the moment it doesn't for example support animated vegetation. Trying to use ue5 to create hzd forbidden west for example would be out of luck. All the expensive nanite details would be mostly hidden by vegetation that cannot (yet) be made with nanite. Once nanite can do animated objects world changes.

Vegetation will never use Nanite, this is use case not working with the technology. But they can use it on the trunk of the tree. When Nanite will support skinned character and translucent material it will be great and a big progress.

Seeing Frosbite, hair rendering will probably change everywhere with software rasterizing line.

I hope grass and leaves rendering will change too in the future.

 

[Karamazov]

 

[chris1515]

This is 6.19 GB of data for this demo.

 

[Karamazov]

definitely more impressive than this year's one, they should release this one also !

 

[techuse]

Interesting they said the Valley of the Ancient asset quality is inferior to last year demo because the demo size was taken in consideration.

It was a very noticeable downgrade. I wonder what is a realistic expectation given current game storages.

 

[cheapchips]

This is 6.19 GB of data for this demo.

Based on what they're saying there, it seems like textures are the real challenge when it comes to storage.

 

[PSman1700]

Nah this years more impressive.

 

[snc]

David Jaffe said bend studio worked on days gone 2 moving from ue to decima engine. And we know now it will be new ip after cancelation of dg but it seems it will be on decima not ue5.

 

[fehu]

I must invest in stones stocks