Wednesday, March 22nd 2023
Epic Games Shows Unreal Engine 5.2 Demo
At its State of Unreal event, Epic Games has revealed a new live demo for its Unreal Engine 5.2, called Electric Dream. The new demo showing some impressive visual details, physics, world-building and more. According to Epic, since the launch of Unreal Engine 5 last spring, 77 percent of users have moved over to Unreal Engine 5, and its latest version, Unreal Engine 5.2, brings further optimizations and improvements, as well as several new features.
The new real-time demonstration shows off some of those new features and improvements that are coming as a part of the Unreal Engine 5.2 Preview release, which should be available as of today via Epic Games launcher and GitHub.
The new demo shows a photorealistic, and familiar Rivian R1T all-electric truck, which rolls through a lifelike environment, built with Quixel Megascans. The demo shows the new Substrate shading system, allowing artists "to compose and layer different shading models" in order to achieve levels of fidelity and quality that were not possible before Unreal Engine 5.2. Of course, Epic notes that these are still experimental, as this is still the Preview release of the Unreal Engine 5.2.
Epic was also keen to note the latest physics advancements, with tire deformation, air suspension, as well as realistic fluid simulation and water rendering. The Unreal Engine 5.2 Preview also ships with a new in-editor and run-time Procedural Content Generation (PCG) tools, which allow artists to define rules and parameters in order to quickly populate an area in the environment.
The latest Unreal Engine 5.2 Demo is quite impressive and it will surely lead to some impressive looking games in the future.
Sources:
Unreal Engine, Gamespot Youtube video
The new real-time demonstration shows off some of those new features and improvements that are coming as a part of the Unreal Engine 5.2 Preview release, which should be available as of today via Epic Games launcher and GitHub.
Epic was also keen to note the latest physics advancements, with tire deformation, air suspension, as well as realistic fluid simulation and water rendering. The Unreal Engine 5.2 Preview also ships with a new in-editor and run-time Procedural Content Generation (PCG) tools, which allow artists to define rules and parameters in order to quickly populate an area in the environment.
The latest Unreal Engine 5.2 Demo is quite impressive and it will surely lead to some impressive looking games in the future.
21 Comments on Epic Games Shows Unreal Engine 5.2 Demo
Even just the updates to Fortnite a game I don't really care for are pretty impressive.
also car driver is super germanwell that crap is absolutely YEARS removed, not next gen, but next next next next gen
A theoretical next-gen console launch at the end of 2027 will allow AMD to use at least RDNA5 hardware in those. This means they would have been working on chiplets for a few generations at that point and probably mastered the whole modular GPU approach. These machines are going to be very powerful and likely a very good match for everything UE5 can throw at them.
I'm yet to see a UE game that looks better than the UE4 Infiltrator demo.