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Title: A Video Look at Unreal Engine 5
Post by: pokeplayer984 on August 31, 2021, 06:34:31 AM

Unreal Engine 5 was released to the public earlier this year.  If you haven't seen what people are doing with it, then you are missing out.  It really is something amazing.  Here's a video by ColdFusion (Highly recommend checking out their videos.) that shows what's possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47I2N_l47mw

I'm looking forward to what Unreal can bring.  This will be a very interesting time in gaming.

Title: Re: A Video Look at Unreal Engine 5
Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on September 01, 2021, 02:50:27 AM

Real-time ray tracing is gonna revolutionize how the next gen looks. Graphics/textures are already basically photorealistic so there's not much possible progress to make on that front, meaning lighting/reflections will be the next big step in visual fidelity. I interviewed Tom Petersen of Nvidia at E3 2019 and he breaks down the (at the time new, now it's gonna be in most upcoming titles) technology:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8o5turWMUM