Good afternoon, dear reader. The other day, 13 May, a presentation of a new engine for games Unreal Engine 5 by Epic Games. A demo version of the project was shown, designed specifically to demonstrate the capabilities of the new engine. New chips, according to the developers, designed to make it easier for developers to create games, and bring the picture quality even closer to the real environment. So let’s figure it out, what new things can we see as ordinary consumers of the gaming industry.
Unreal Engine 5 – Nanite technology
We, as ordinary users, have little to know about this technology.. This technology as a whole is designed to facilitate the work of developers-artists due to a simpler system. “drawing”, what, according to the presumed estimates of the authoritative former Rainbow Six Siege gameplay programmer Alexander Balakshin, will allow them to reduce labor time by 50-70 percent and thereby significantly increase the time for design development, what, as we think, will positively affect the overall level of graphics development.
Lumen technology
But this technology is very interesting. This is global illumination technology., which is calculated in real time and which allows you to illuminate the object, taking into account the REFLECTED light. That is, it works like this, that light, falling on objects, reflects off them and falls on other objects, reflecting back on them. This technology in Unreal Engine 5 allows you to make realistic day and night changes, and will also take into account a much larger number of all influences of lighting sources in the game in real time, I will repeat again, in real, because it is important and, that developers will not need to write scripts for each case of light reflection, in the game, this calculation will occur independently, players, in turn, will receive technology similar to NVIDIA’s Ray-tracing.
Engine succession
The presentation also showed us the technology, which allows the game, made on the Unreal Engine 4, seamlessly port to the new Unreal Engine 5. So, For example, this is what, what the developers of the game Fortnite are currently very actively engaged in, which means, that soon the world will see an updated game, with improved graphics and technologies.
As already known, this engine will be supported by both Sony PlayStation 5, так и Xbox Series X.