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Editor’s note: This article comes from the WeChat public account “PingWest Pinwan” (ID: wepingwest), author Xing Yifan. p>
The night before yesterday, U.S. game developer Epic Games announced Unreal Engine Updated to the fifth generation (Unreal Engine 5), and released a real machine demo video on PlayStation5. span>
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As a game engine specially designed and developed by Epic Games for the first-person shooter game, the Unreal Engine has a good reputation, “Rainbow Six”, “War Machine”, “Jedi survival “,” Fortress Night “and other heavyweight shooting games have chosen it. Eight years have passed since the debut of Unreal Engine 4, and Epic Games has finally made it. p>
The visual impact has made many foreign media give high evaluations such as “unprecedented” and “true next generation”. However, what technology has Unreal Engine 5 made breakthroughs for players and the game industry? What does it mean, can not be summed up in a sentence “the next generation has arrived”. p>
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According to Epic developers, Unreal Engine 5 can achieve “real-time rendering details comparable to movie CG and real world”, mainly using two core technologies, Lumen and Nanite. p>
The first pillar of Unreal Engine 5 is the so-called Lumen system. It is a full dynamic global illumination solution that can do scene and lighting changesReal-time response. p>
In the demo video, when changing the direction of the light source, the light in the cave immediately began to change, and it was constantly reflected between the stones and the cliffs. Even the places that were not directly found by the light had a sense of light, even if ray tracing was not used. It can also produce the same lighting effects as the real world. p>