spoiler alert.... a goat comes in and destroys everything

I have to say that I am getting a little tired of people automatically claiming anything Unreal looks bad by default, it's to the point where it's nonsensical.

looks amazing

It is not photorealistic and FAILS lool due to renderization "limited" and to the bit fake ambient occlusion. But "Octane Render" program is excellent due to PMC* kernel using. 🙂 * - it's to render universal things (shadows, caustics...). 😀

Uh are you seriously comparing a game engine which renders everything in real time to a raytraced photo-real engine which takes 3-4 seconds to calculate a single frame in a basic scene? Like look I get that Octane is cool, so is v-ray, mental ray, iray, etc. But all these are still light years away from rendering what you see in this scene in real time at 60+ fps. Hell UE4 had it's own version of dynamic GI called SVOGI but it was removed because current hardware was incapable of handling it. Anyway, I've been messing around with UDK in my spare time running through some of EPIC's tutorials and the engine is just amazing. It's incredibly easy to use and it produces some excellent graphics.

Ok. My renderization lasted ~6 hours per frame in OR but my glasses w/ liquid has caustics only. 😉

hahaha even the goat game has better visuals.. but all in all yuck i already hate unreal engine since the days

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Well yeah, it depends on what your rendering. If you have 10 light sources with 10,000 photons each and your calculating caustics through multiple objects then yeah, it's going to take a few hours per frame. I mean building out the lightmap for the map shown here in UDK took like 25 minutes on my machine. But once its built I can move around the scene at 60fps+.

Compared to the Quixel Megascans Environment demo this looks... well... too artificial 🙁