A YouTube video showing off some very fancy Unreal Engine 5 tech demo work is currently doing the rounds online and, let us tell you, our minds are completely blown by this one.
The video, which is the work of 3D environmental artist Lorenzo Drago, shows a recreation of Etchū-Daimon Station train station in Toyama, Japan and it's pretty bewildering to behold. You can check the three minute demo out above and tell us if you too were having a very hard timing discerning the tech on display here from real life footage. There's honestly no way we would have known.
Drago used VR tech to control his movement through the scene and the modelling, textures lighting and animation involved are as close to photo-realistic as we've ever seen. It's truly impressive stuff that gives us a tiny glimpse into the sort of thing we can expect to see down the road in video games.
We've already seen Unreal Engine 5 at work in The Matrix Awakens on Series X, itself a hugely impressive of display of the new tech on offer, but this short display really drives home just how lifelike things can be expected to get. We can't wait to play some horror games made in this engine!
Impressed by what Unreal Engine 5 can do in the video above? Let us know in the comments.
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I wonder how demos like this will hold up in 20-30 years? I remember being blown away by the photorealistic graphics of the PS1.
@Kooky_Daisuke I get what you are saying; but it takes a lot of money to get native (and completely locked) 4K/60fps on PC. I mean, it's kind of the reason super-sampling techniques were created.
Consoles need to be accessible with their pricing; so a totally locked 4K/60fps is kind of trade off here.
As far as this video, it's well beyond what a console could handle - actually it's even taxing for a PC. In fact, this video isn't real-time at all. It's pre-rendered running at a mere 7fps and then sped up. The artist is using an RTX 2080.
He said he can get it running around 30 - 40fps at 1440p during the daytime sequences; but with downgraded quality.
Just to be clear the daytime footage is real video and its only the night time stuff which is UE5 right? It is very impressive though.
@mus422 No, it's entirely UE5.
@PhileasFragg I remember how real GoldenEye looked on N64, at the time I thought it would never get better.
To me tech demos always looks good but when it comes to actual full length games especially open world games they never look as good which is probably don't to the consoles limitations, imagine an elder scrolls or other open world games looking as good as that matrix demo, just wouldn't happen
On the pushsquare article it says that it's actually running at 7fps & the videos been sped up to look like it's running in real time
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