UE4 tech video showcases next-gen weather/physics effects

#5722534 Posted on: 10/21/2019 10:44 AM

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Running on a GTX 970? Seriously?

#5722537 Posted on: 10/21/2019 10:47 AM

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Wow... looks like the engine to go to in the next years got to be UE.

And we look at this, how good it looks, how good it runs unoptimized... and the biggest PC game is Fortnite. "GG"

o_O

#5722543 Posted on: 10/21/2019 11:08 AM

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Boobs physics?

#5722545 Posted on: 10/21/2019 11:10 AM

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Every PS generation gets it's new DoA, don't they?

#5722546 Posted on: 10/21/2019 11:11 AM

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Looks nice, even if you slow it down.

#5722548 Posted on: 10/21/2019 11:21 AM

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I like the comments from the developer on this:


I read a lot of "you need a quantic nasa computer to run that" so here is some stats :

- no optimization at all
- no pre-baked animation
- 20 trees (70,000 poly each, no lod)
- 100 bushes (6,000 poly each, no lod)
- 35-60fps 1080p on a gtx970 (with epic/high quality)

#5722555 Posted on: 10/21/2019 11:48 AM

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Those trees should have been ripped to shreds in seconds with so much debris flying around, and at wind speed which looks like its over 150mph judging by how fast the debris cross the screen.
And that lamp post still standing ? No way...

That is a Level 4-5 hurricane level storm... even the buildings would be smashed to bits with most windows broken.

#5722572 Posted on: 10/21/2019 12:25 PM

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They went overboard with the amount of trash in the air. Where did that stuff come from, huh? Or maybe I've been spoiled by living in a relatively clean country, who knows.

It looked really good, though.

#5722575 Posted on: 10/21/2019 12:42 PM

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Bad ass tech demo. Still can not believe it was running on that specific hardware, but if so then WHOOOOOHOOOOOOO for us!!

And these comments about the weather and how it should actually be is seriously sad and interesting at the same time.

Seems like off of one video of a few seconds people are meteorologists over night. Simply professionals being able to dissect this video and get so much real time information from it!!

Who'd of thought it could be possible......

#5722588 Posted on: 10/21/2019 01:18 PM

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Looks good

#5722595 Posted on: 10/21/2019 01:31 PM

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Looks pretty damn cool.

#5722633 Posted on: 10/21/2019 02:50 PM

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Yeah, looks great, very impressive! They obviously chose about the most violent storm possible, so I wonder if it would look less realistic if they chose something less violent, maybe simulating an ultra violent storm is easier to impress.

#5722664 Posted on: 10/21/2019 03:53 PM

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I don't understand why would anyone even mention optimization for a prototype scene with just 20 trees and a few physical meshes
Seriously, having something work in a prototype scene, with a few meshes in front of camera and make it work in full scale, ideally open-world, game are 2 completely different tasks.

But yeah, it looks nice. Hopefully we will see something similar in next-gen games.

#5722667 Posted on: 10/21/2019 04:09 PM

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I feel like I've been waiting forever for all these cool looking tech demo visuals to actually show up in games and amaze us all. Not that current games look horrible by any means, but I thought we'd be further along by now. I remember being a kid and thinking that we'd have photo realistic games to play in 15-20 years. Young me was way off on that one.

#5722700 Posted on: 10/21/2019 05:58 PM

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Amen to that. The increase in gfx quality the last 10 years has been very disappointing to me.