Epic Games revealed PlayStation 5 Run a live demo of its newly released Unreal 5 game engine.
Cheer up, this is a surprise.
Lumens on Nanite Land It is a demo that demonstrates a new version of Unreal Engine, and developers can preview it in early 2021.
Unreal Engine 5 can run on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, PC, PS4, Xbox One, iOS, Android, and Mac, and is based on two new core technologies Epic calls Nanite and Lumen, because it is committed to achieving photos Realistic.
Epic said: "One of our next generation goals is to achieve the same realism as movie CG and real life, and put it into the practical operation of development teams of all sizes,"
"Nanite's virtualized micro-polygon geometry allows the artist to release as much geometric detail as possible to the naked eye," Epic explained. “Nanite virtualized geometry means you can import hundreds of millions or billions of polygon-quality original artwork with movie quality directly into the Unreal Engine-everything from ZBrush modeling to photogrammetric scanning to CAD data, everything works fine jobs.
"Nanite geometry is streamed and scaled in real time, so polygon count budget, polygon memory budget or drawing count budget are no longer needed; there is no need to bake details into normal maps or manually write LODs; and there is no loss of quality."
Lumen technology is a new lighting technology for Unreal Engine 5, which can immediately respond to changes in the game.
"Lumens is a fully dynamic global illumination solution that immediately responds to scene and light changes," Epic added. "The system presents diffuse reflection with infinite bounce and indirect specular reflection in a huge and detailed environment ranging from kilometers to millimeters.
"Artists and designers can use lumens to create more dynamic scenes, such as changing the angle of the sun throughout the day, turning on a flashlight or punching holes in the ceiling, indirect lighting will adapt accordingly. Lumens eliminate the need to wait for the lightmap to complete and write the lighting The need for texture UVs-when artists can move lights in the Unreal Editor and the lighting is the same as when running games on the console, it can save a lot of time. "
In addition to revealing the new engine, Epic also announced that the matching and social services provided in Fortnite are now available to all game developers in their projects. It also eliminated royalties for all games using Unreal Engine, up to a maximum of US $ 1 million.
Sony announced earlier today that the PlayStation 5 release is still expected to take place during the 2020 holiday. You can find out what we know about PS5 here and compare PS5 with Microsoft ’s Xbox Series X specifications.
Elsewhere, Epic provides Fortnite matching and account services to Unreal Engine developers for free.