Unreal Engine 5.5 Megalights - Tech Demo | Unreal Fest 2024

A new experimental UE5 tool that hones lighting scenarios, supoprted by Kitbash 3D that better renders highlights and shadows, shown off in a walkthrough of Lumen in the Land of Nanite.

[GamerDaze-rn]

Me watching in pixelated 1080p, mm nice.

[TroutButter]

3:41 YouTube's compression just had a stroke.

[MiPedoteTUMBA]

This is some of the worst looking bit-starved compressed 1080p video I've seen in a long time! What a perfect way to show off their latest tech!

[blake]

The compression on this video is wild man.

[AleksanderHoff]

Can’t wait to see this in games in 10-15 years when developers learn how to use it!

[Tory-JJ]

youtubes compression + 1080p ruins this?
Why is this not uploaded in 8k/4k with 850000+ bitrate using AV1? IGN what's wrong with your production team? seriously.

[MJWolverine]

Game technology is evolving but games are devolving. what a time

[jurajchobot]

Please, add ray-traced audio into UE 5.6. I already saw a few demos and it was mind-blowing! For people who don't seem to be immersed in standard spatial audio, audio ray tracing is a game-changer. It would also be nice if it supported material refraction, so that sound waves in a metal room for example would sound differently from sound waves spread through a wooden room. It would also be nice if you could somehow solve that for complex environments with interactions with let's say twenty different materials in one small space, each material the sound wave bounces from would refract it differently, making sure players who can create 3D maps of the environment from audio alone can have much better experience in let's say FPS games.

[kommandantkeen]

> tech demo, smooth 60 fps on ps5

> actual games, jittery and unstable 13 fps average on a 4090

[canalframerate]

OK, now try to make it run on my PC without any traversal stuttering.

[pro-storm]

Poor dudes hands nervously shaking while the camera zooms in on him, Tim Sweeney in his ear "If you fuck this up i'm dropping you off to the diddlers house"

[TheMayjinx]

Have been seeing these tech demos for ages now just give us a god damn game with all that tech 😅

[thefalconflame]

1080p tech demo with huge compression. Nice.

[nattsurfaren]

Everyone is focused on the graphics when the sound is actually extremely important. Notice how the presenter talks and it echoes and it kind of works with the demo making it feel more real.

[NikHem]

IGN you need to do better, this upload is horrible. Call Digital Foundry and ask them how it's done, please.

[KommanderKarl]

Will certainly make for some interesting future IPs/remasters, amazing work! Time to dive into the documentation 😅

[rev]

1080p aside, gotta love UE’s showcases. The tech is impressive as always and you don’t need any higher YT video resolution to see it.

[Shikmusik]

next gen graphics with year 2000 animations on characters for most games.... developers NEED to up the ante with animations..

[DG-]

What's the point of posting things like this if it isn't in a high bitrate? What a waste of time, looks like mush.

[MTaye]

And yet it still stutters. When is shader compilation stutter gonna be fixed? When is traversal loading stutter gonna be fixed?