Unreal Engine 5.5 Megalights Tech Demo (Running on a PS5) | Unreal Fest 2024
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They are shit, used from the stream that ended 1 hour ago. Maybe few hours from now official UE channel will release 4K@60fps trailers.
A lot very advanced rendering stuff in there won't be used in games just yet as they are prohibitively expensive to run real-time, but it's cool to see nonetheless. Unreal Engine ain't just games nowadays.
Lots of "under the hood" stuff in this update. More options in several areas of the pipeline and refinements to make things easier for devs. We don't really feel the effects of this but I'm sure 9 to 5 folks dealing with a specific task are probably like "Oh my lord, I've become like 50% more productive at this task"
Lots of "under the hood" stuff in this update. More options in several areas of the pipeline and refinements to make things easier for devs. We don't really feel the effects of this but I'm sure 9 to 5 folks dealing with a specific task are probably like "Oh my lord, I've become like 50% more productive at this task"
The compressions makes this one look pretty bad.... I think was intended to impress.
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You're right, indeed. Devs usually run super PC's and such stuff would make it great for them to check how things look before they bake lighting. I'm more than sure that these techs also help with light baking as well.
Despite we wouldn't see it in games soon, such things are great to see.
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Nah, they just ended the stream and haven't released these clips officially, which will most likely be in 4K@60fps. Streams always look like shit unless it's not live.
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Indeed... But man I am really looking forward to Unreal Engine 6 though!
Running on PS5. Pretty impressive for the limited hardware. What are you expecting?
Not related to what I expected at all but with what they showed.
When they started to show Nanite and Lumen around Unreal Engine 5.0 demoed on PS5 was a whole level different from what they are show now with Unreal Engine 5.5.
Nothing what they showed here is close to the Matrix or that other woman flying demo.
I'm curious if UE5 is starting to fail to delivery what they showed us.
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It's really not about showing which game looks better, it's about a new tech that's far less expensive on the hardware and showing it off on a casual console running smoothly instead of a super workstation.
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Its still UE5. Not UE6. Don't expect leaps in tech, but more refinement and such. Basically it's running a bit faster with all bells and whistles with few graphical improvements.
The dont have to show matrix style stuff because they already showed it. Nanite/ Lumen has been implemented in a lot of games with Matrix level qualilty environments. Robocop Rogue City being a prime example of this tech in use.
Hell even Fortnite uses Lumen/ Nanite and you don't see it that well. Doesn't mean it's not there.
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yeah Demons souls still looks better.
tlou2 also.
rt still cannot match good baked lighting
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Nope. Effects will be the same. Performance with said effects will be better.Looks good man... And I expect it to be better on the PS5 Pro!
It can be either, or even both in situations (anything using RT should offer pretty nice benefits).
It's just like a GPU upgrade for those interested (well it basically is that + more SSD storage).
yeah no.
Unreal engine (especially 5) is known for years of promises how optimized it is, how it streamlines outputting light, geometry and everything.
How devs can click one button and their whole game is compiled and they dont need to place lights or do anything and it's all automatic and runs faster than ever.
Then when it comes to it, it looks generic, looks like crap and runs like shit
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