Unreal. Did you watch Epic Games‘ breathtaking reveal of Unreal Engine 5 today? Then that was probably what you kept muttering to yourself.
Epic’s goal in this generation is, well, epic. The creator of Fortnite, Unreal, and Gears of War wants nothing less than photorealism in video games that will be on par with movie computer graphics and real life. “Lumen in the Land of Nanite,” a real-time Unreal Engine 5 demo running live on PlayStation 5, shows this goal is within reach. Thanks to two new core technologies: Nanite and Lumen.
“I don’t have to be constrained to do a game where the world has to be static. And I’m able to iterate it a lot faster,” said Epic Games Special Projects Art Director Jerome Platteaux while discussing the demo. Platteaux, incidentally, was a digital artist for “The Avengers” and “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”.
