“I can’t believe the graphics”

Barely two years after the first launch, Fortnite’s Epic Games has now released Unreal Engine 5, the latest generation of the game company’s graphics engine.

Technology show impressed a lot

In December, the company released a tech demo video that quickly gained traction. Peter Ottsjö from Ny Teknik stated: “Geez, the graphics of this game are hardly believable” After seeing the demon The Matrix Awakens.

Unreal Engine 5, which can now be downloaded by game developers, includes systems for highly detailed 3D modeling (a function called Nanite), near-realistic lighting (the Lumen function) and tools for creating avatars so realistic that we might forget the uncanny valley effect.

Bought a Swedish 3D startup

Just before the launch of Unreal Engine 5, Epic Games bought Swedish 3D startup Quixel, of which it was part. List of new technology 33 2018. Uppsala is behind the 3D library Megascans and has developed a scanning technology that makes it possible to create photo-realistic digital reproductions of everything from trees and cars to entire landscapes.

Creating photorealistic 3D content is an expensive process in game development and movie production. By working with Quixel to make Megascans free to use in the Unreal Engine, this level of art can now be made available to everyone from big budget studios to indie developers, Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, said. When the acquisition became known.

New Tomb Raider game in progress

During the Epic Games launch engine for the graphics engine on Tuesday, studio Crystal Dynamics also announced the development of a new Tomb Raider game with Unreal 5. CD Projekt Red also uses Unreal 5, and Then while creating the next Witcher game.

A few other game studios, including Remedy, Supermassive Games and Gearbox, say they are also working with Unreal Engine 5.

Finds new uses

New graphics engines, like Unreal Engine 5, aren’t just a matter of game developers. Epic Games is happy to highlight the importance of the engine The development of so-called metaverseswhich can be defined as a series of interconnected 3D worlds displayed in real time.

Another example of the current development is the TV series The Mandalorianwhere virtual environments and backgrounds were first created using the Unreal Engine, and then rendered on LED screens are six meters high during filming.