THE UNREAL ENGINE 5 ERA BEGINS

The new 3D and game engine enters full release.

Adoption of UE5 will mean different things for different studios, but the big themes are workflow streamlining and high-fidelity geometry and lighting. The 2020 Unreal Engine 5 reveal led with its new “micropolygon geometry system,” Nanite, and its “global illumination solution,” Lumen. With Nanite and Lumen, Epic says that developers can import film-quality 3D assets with “massive amounts of geometric detail” and set up dynamic lights without worrying about certain complex technical steps, especially those to do with optimisation. The engine handles the ‘making it run on our PCs’ part, or at least more of it. There are some features specific to open world games, too. One of those features is World Partition, which handles the on-the-fly loading and unloading of open worlds as players move through them.…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2022

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