![]() If you just want to try it out, head here for info on how to download it. I downloaded the UE5 preview the other day (it's available in the Epic Games Store app), and although I found aspects of it deeply unintuitive-I'm not a game developer!-I was able to import some Quixel Megascans and construct a crude scene with less Googling than I'd need to fix a sink.Įpic told me that a new UE5 community hub with tutorials is being added, as are two new demo projects: Lyra, a new starter game which replaces the old ShooterGame template, and more interestingly, City Sample, which contains the city from the Matrix tech demo that weirdly only released on consoles. Like the previous version, Unreal Engine 5 is free to download and use Epic doesn't collect royalties on indie games until they've earned over $1 million in revenue. ![]() Another is Data Layers, which allow developers to "create different variations of the same world-such as daytime and nighttime versions, or intact and broken geometry-as layers that exist in the same space," says Epic. ![]() One of those features is World Partition, which handles the on-the-fly loading and unloading of open worlds as players move through them. There are some features specific to open world games, too, which may be useful for CD Projekt Red's new Witcher game the studio announced last month that it's switching to Unreal Engine 5. The engine handles the 'making it run on our PCs' part, or at least more of it. With Nanite and Lumen, Epic says that developers can import film-quality 3D assets with "massive amounts of geometric detail" and set up dynamic lights without worrying about certain complex technical steps, especially those to do with optimization. The 2020 Unreal Engine 5 reveal video lead with its new "micropolygon geometry system," Nanite, and its "global illumination solution," Lumen. ![]() Adoption of UE5 will mean different things for different studios, but the big themes are workflow streamlining and high-fidelity geometry and lighting.
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