avatar! | 1,826 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Impressive! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arch_8ngel | 1,597 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Looks like it is going to make game development even more expensive, since all of those models/assets require development... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bogomil | 815 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 The environment looks absolutely amazing. The character doesn't look all that much better than top end graphics now from what I see. The water looked horrible. I'll be interested to see actual in game footage that isn't just a graphics demo. Take the character out of the video and it'd be hard to distinguish from real life with the lighting effects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avatar! | 1,826 Posted May 13, 2020 Author Share Posted May 13, 2020 (edited) 27 minutes ago, arch_8ngel said: Looks like it is going to make game development even more expensive, since all of those models/assets require development... I really hope not. It may in fact make such game development less expensive if the engine is fairly robust and intuitive. Or at any rate, no more expensive than today. While AAA games typically require huge amounts of money, other indie developers have also used Unreal. Many of the best games from the past two decades were made using Unreal including Borderlands, Batman Arkham Asylum, Dragon Quest XI, Bioshock... and games that aren't necessarily AAA but still wonderful games made using Unreal include Bloodstained, Bard's Tale IV, Hellblade (any NInaj Theory game really), Life is Strange, Flame in the Flood... Looking forward to seeing what developers can do! Edited May 13, 2020 by avatar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avatar! | 1,826 Posted May 13, 2020 Author Share Posted May 13, 2020 3 minutes ago, Andy_Bogomil said: The environment looks absolutely amazing. The character doesn't look all that much better than top end graphics now from what I see. The water looked horrible. I'll be interested to see actual in game footage that isn't just a graphics demo. Take the character out of the video and it'd be hard to distinguish from real life with the lighting effects. I agree. I suspect they simply didn't want to bother with the character. Game studios today can definitely create nearly life-like facial expressions. I'm sure Unreal 5 can do that, but obviously the environment (triangles) was what they wanted people to focus on! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0xDEAFC0DE | 1,277 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 A lot of ue demos tend to be a bit hyperbolic with their capabilities. You can notice that all the static geometry looks really nice, but the dynamic stuff (the character, bats, water, etc.) don't stand out as much. Someone else also pointed out that there's never more than one light source emitting GI. That being said, there's still some cool things in that demo. We'll just have to wait and see how much of it is actually practical in real time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeppelin03 | 314 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Digital Foundry did a nice video talking about this demo. There is a lot of cool tech being shown off here. What developers do with this will be much more impressive than the demo I'm sure. I am really looking forward to when we are past the cross gen period. Late 2021 and 2022 is when we will really see the benefit of next gen. This year will likely just be faster load times and a graphics bump. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sign Collector Guy | 334 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Mind fucking blown! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sign Collector Guy | 334 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 3 hours ago, arch_8ngel said: Looks like it is going to make game development even more expensive, since all of those models/assets require development... What I heard is they are importing already made film assets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avatar! | 1,826 Posted May 14, 2020 Author Share Posted May 14, 2020 3 hours ago, Sign Collector Guy said: Mind fucking blown! Oh man! just imagine, this kind of beautiful realism in a next-gen (PS5) virtual reality headset 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,965 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 I haven't wanted to buy a console based off of graphical capability since the PS2. This is extremely tempting, though. The water sucked though. I mean, realllllly bad. I mean, I could see how they were trying to spotlight the real time fluid Dynamics but it felt sooooo bad compared to the rest of the demo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0xDEAFC0DE | 1,277 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 4 hours ago, Sign Collector Guy said: What I heard is they are importing already made film assets? For this demo they are using Quixel megascans (Epic bought Quixel): https://quixel.com/megascans/collections?category=environment&category=natural&category=limestone-quarry In general, they are saying that you can take models straight from you artists' sculpting program (zbrush) and put it directly in the game as opposed generating lower poly models from a very high quality source model. One impact this might have is game sizes will probably be even greater than they are now to fit even higher quality assets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boosted52405 | 178 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 Triangles, triangles, triangles! So this must be Lara's orb/wingsuit equipped daughter. I thought it was dope. Good point on the game sizes, this will assuredly bump those up even farther - yikes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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