Unreal Engine 5 Revealed

[Tangled-Universe]

Don't know what to say, just watch...

[N-drju]

This is just unbelievable... Makes you wish you could design games just by imagining them.

That being said, I'm afraid that any game using this engine will be instantly overrun by developers... Who have a long history of ruining entertainment rather than promoting it.

[WAS]

This is just unbelievable... Makes you wish you could design games just by imagining them.

That being said, I'm afraid that any game using this engine will be instantly overrun by developers... Who have a long history of ruining entertainment rather than promoting it.

What do you mean? That sounds like Hollywood honestly.

[N-drju]

This is just unbelievable... Makes you wish you could design games just by imagining them.

That being said, I'm afraid that any game using this engine will be instantly overrun by developers... Who have a long history of ruining entertainment rather than promoting it.

Scratch that. I meant game publishers.

I just find it saddening that game creation is usually a subject of abuse on the part of publishers. We have a lot of impressive, beautiful technology floating around. But the more impressive it is, the more greedy publishers become. Killing the fun of single player mode and forcing people to buy virtual currency for real money, killing the value of exploration and art with a culture of fierce online competition.

[PabloMack]

The physics in that video wasn't what I was taught in college.

[KlausK]

That was my first thought as well   we must have been brought up in a "Real World Engine" back then. Such a shame...

CHeers, Klaus

[WAS]

I gotta say, if 3D movies don't make a come-back now (like outside kids stuff totally in the uncanny valley), I don't know what I'll take. Render times are seriously diminished and the results are amazing.

[Dune]

I wish there were an easy to install offline version of this. Amazing.

[WAS]

I wish there were an easy to install offline version of this. Amazing.

Pretty sure you can install it on one machine and copy the editor to a new computer from the launcher and run it directly. So long as dependencies are met for other stuff it needs to run. I don't believe it runs off registry entry.

[Dune]

That's something to try, but it might need being online somehow. So install on online and copy program file folders to offline machine (and of course make new link to exe)? That simple? Anyone done that?

[WAS]

I checked online and that's what some people have done so guess for offline machines like at University.

[Dune]

Yes, I heard that too just now, so that's good news. I'll definitely keep an eye open for the release of v5 (late 2021).

[cyphyr]

Now that is impressive!

[Tangled-Universe]

Yeah it's insane isn't it and it's not even completely finished yet...
You can still tell that it's a heavily optimized renderer, but if you see where it came from...
Now with first generation of GI, just imagine what's possible when GPU's get more specialized raytracing-cores, it's going to be insane. 
Also the freedom to use high quality photogrammetry assets without the need to reduce their meshes and reproject textures is such an enormous leap.

I can see what N-Drju means with publishers still being well capable to screw up what they produce with this technology. Bad game design choices, bad artistic choices... Like Hollywood, not much different I guess.

[cyphyr]

I guess I'll need a better graphics card. I can't see how a bunch of unoptimised Megascan assets can run on a low or mid-range card without severe bottlenecking.