Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 5

Two years after the show Unreal Engine 5 Today comes this new technology that small and large development teams around the world will rely on to develop next generation games.

Today, Epic Games surprised everyone by making a new game engine available to anyone and everyone. to this was added a shortened version of the technological demo version of The Matrix Awakens and a shooter called Lyra.

Unreal Engine 5 focuses on next generation game development. It offers developers next-generation technologies such as Lumen global illumination solutionwhich works in real time, supports hardware-accelerated ray tracing, and should save creators a significant amount of time. Lumen’s biggest advantage is dynamic lighting, where the light naturally and easily adapts to the world around it. In other words, Lumen provides a realistic simulation of the behavior of light rays in any scene.

Other technology Nanite, which allows developers to import cinematic-quality visual assets into the game while maintaining real-time frame rates and without degrading quality. It’s a geometry system that promises to load even the largest models seamlessly without the ugly details that catch the eye. he’s next metahuman for photorealistic character rendering.

In turn, they think of less powerful computer machines and consoles. Temporary Super Resolution (abbreviated as TSR), which is part of the recently released action adventure Ghostwire: Tokyo. In this game, he is able to stretch the image from native 1080p to 4K. So this is a twofold increase in resolution, and the quality is comparable (if not at the level) of DLSS with DLSS. The advantage of this technology is that it also thinks of the console.

He will take care of the sound quality fully procedural sound engine MetaSounds with rich features for developers, including mapping game settings to audio playback, significant workflow improvements, and more.

He talks about all these and other game development processes. World sectiona tool that allows multiple developers to seamlessly collaborate on game development.

What matters is that Unreal Engine 5 will continue to evolve. Epic Games with a new engine focused on all kinds of games. The previous Unreal Engine 4 was not very suitable for games with large open worlds. However, Unreal Engine 5 has already been chosen by several major teams, including a Polish team. CD Project RED create a new Wizard. CD Project RED will even develop technology. People from the studio also contribute to the development of UE5. Coalition (Gears of War series), who create their next AAA project in it.

Speaking of this new project, Microsoft has released the film as a test demo in Unreal Engine 5 called Cave. Its goal is to show how cinematic quality objects with tens of millions of polygons can be rendered in real time. It represents 100x leap in graphical detail. We have that experience to come with the next generation of Xbox Series X/S games.

“The most amazing thing is that All of these great visuals and animations work on the Xbox Series X console., so this just gives an idea of ​​the visual fidelity and quality we can create. Demos like this let us learn a lot about UE5’s performance, and I think we can safely say that with this new technology, we’ll be able to build incredible things.” Kate Rayner, CTO of The Coalition, heard.

Keith sees the benefits of Unreal Engine 5 for his team in this. they will be able to create a better visual, larger and more interactive environment.. They’ve been working on UE5 for over a year now and are giving Epic the feedback it needs.

“UE5 will allow developers to break the shackles and create the content we have always dreamed of. No more compromises! It also eliminates friction surfaces in the workflow – with Nanite we no longer have to manually create low-poly versions of models, and with Lumen we don’t have to redo the lighting and wait for everything to appear in the project. U5 significantly speeds up the development process”, she added.

In addition, today it became known that Unreal Engine 5 was also chosen by the developers of the new action adventure Tomb Raider with archaeologist Lara Croft.that is, the British studio Crystal Dynamics.

“Our goal is to raise the bar for quality and create a film that fans of both Crystal Dynamics and Tomb Raider fans deserve.” Let there be the fact that the new engine will allow for a higher level of story and gameplay.

Developers and players from all over the world can download shooter lirawhich is used for the presentation of Unreal Engine 5. It is intended specifically for game developers who can learn how to work with new technologies and even change Lyra thanks to this project.

It is also available Sample citycomplex and huge city with buildings, vehicles and crowds of people from technology demonstrations The Matrix Awakens. This demo project is suitable for anyone who wants to test how far they can go with their open world game project.

Take a look at today’s Unreal Engine 5 presentation: