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Unreal Engine 4 - (2018) Realistic Looking Characters
2018, so a new year for Unreal Engine 4 technology to shine. A few days ago, GDC 2018 showed us how great the future of Unreal Engine 4 can look. Especially characters can look better than ever, below an overview of some of the most impressive stuff.
Half Life is coming to Unreal Engine 4 With Fan Project Remake - 03/19/2018 08:31 AM
SilverTM and a team of gamers are currently working on a fan remake of Half Life/Black Mesa in Unreal Engine 4. While the team does not aim to recreate the entire game, it will release a playable ver...
Unreal Engine 4 Star Wars fan tech demo - 11/06/2017 09:46 AM
Star Wars Battlefront 2 will be released shortly, however, this fan-made Unreal Engine 4 video puts to shame its in-game characters. Created by Baolong Zhang, this video shows Jyn Erso from Rogue One ...
Unreal Engine 4 2017 Features Trailer - 03/01/2017 09:59 AM
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Video: Real-Time Cinematography in Unreal Engine 4 - 08/02/2016 08:26 AM
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Unreal (1998) Intro recreated in Unreal Engine 4 - 07/06/2016 09:32 AM
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#5534486 Posted on: 04/03/2018 04:17 PM
I'm not sure what you mean? RTX isn't a graphical effect, it's a hardware accelerated denoiser for raytracing. In this particular video I know the Star Wars scene is raytraced on RTX, but the only benefit RTX provides is a performance one, not visual - the visual aspect comes from raytracing itself. RTX just allows a raytraced scene to be completed with a minimal number of rays. The developer has control over the number of rays they want casted along with what specific effects they want raytraced. For example, in that Star Wars demo Epic said they were using an extreme number of rays and the entire scene was raytraced - which is why it required a DGX-1 supercomputer to run it in real time. In the upcoming metro game, only the AO/GI are raytraced and the ray count will probably significantly lower, impacting the overall accuracy but allowing it to be completed on a single GPU in real time.
So - is this with or without RTX? Because if this is without, it really goes to show how much that technology is over-hyped and unnecessary.
I'm not sure what you mean? RTX isn't a graphical effect, it's a hardware accelerated denoiser for raytracing. In this particular video I know the Star Wars scene is raytraced on RTX, but the only benefit RTX provides is a performance one, not visual - the visual aspect comes from raytracing itself. RTX just allows a raytraced scene to be completed with a minimal number of rays. The developer has control over the number of rays they want casted along with what specific effects they want raytraced. For example, in that Star Wars demo Epic said they were using an extreme number of rays and the entire scene was raytraced - which is why it required a DGX-1 supercomputer to run it in real time. In the upcoming metro game, only the AO/GI are raytraced and the ray count will probably significantly lower, impacting the overall accuracy but allowing it to be completed on a single GPU in real time.
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#5534494 Posted on: 04/03/2018 04:44 PM
10 more years and we'll have true photo realistic games.
10 more years and we'll have true photo realistic games.
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#5534545 Posted on: 04/03/2018 07:30 PM
^ To be fair, we all said that same thing 10 years ago, and yet here we are saying it again.
I'm guessing for actual affordable, mainstream, fully real-time "photo-realistic" graphics (and that's focusing solely on traditional 3D gaming on a 2D screen; barring whatever changes VR or yet to be known technology does or doesn't bring), we're probably looking at closer to 20-25 years.
Time has the final say though, so until then...
^ To be fair, we all said that same thing 10 years ago, and yet here we are saying it again.
I'm guessing for actual affordable, mainstream, fully real-time "photo-realistic" graphics (and that's focusing solely on traditional 3D gaming on a 2D screen; barring whatever changes VR or yet to be known technology does or doesn't bring), we're probably looking at closer to 20-25 years.
Time has the final say though, so until then...
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#5534580 Posted on: 04/03/2018 09:38 PM
The skin continues to be too perfect and too shiny so i think there´s still a long way before we reach photo-realistic" graphics...
The skin continues to be too perfect and too shiny so i think there´s still a long way before we reach photo-realistic" graphics...
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So - is this with or without RTX? Because if this is without, it really goes to show how much that technology is over-hyped and unnecessary.