Here's a Taste of What Unreal Engine 4 Can Do

It's a nice glimpse into the future, and we'll probably see this once we're settling into the next console generation.

Unreal Tournament 5 with these Graphics and art style would be full of win

@Veektarius said:

As a person who plays predominantly on PC, the graphics in recent games don't seem far short of this. Could some tech-head point out what separates the Unreal 4 future from the Unreal 3 present?

The lighting is one of the big improvements. There are a lot of new things that developers can do with light sources that weren't possible in previous iterations of the engine. A lot of work has been done on material simulations and for designers a whole load of improvements were made to the editor to make games a lot easier to develop. I'm sure there are a ton of other things but that is what they have shown off so far.

@RedRoach said:

@Walta said:

Yeah yeah well done Epic. But when is Unreal 3 coming out? Wanna shoot me some Skaarj.

Unreal 3 came out in like 08 or something.

I'm not a big tech guy. Is this video showing what UE4 can do during gameplay? Will it look that good when I'm playing it?

He means Unreal III, the game. The sequel to Unreal II.

Man would love to see that uncompressed and in full 1080p...

Anyone know what metal album they stole that art from?

damn this skyrim dlc looks really good!

"SHUT THE DOOR! ARE YOU TRYING TO HEAT THE WHOLE OUTSIDE?!"

@Slaegar said:

I see they still have the problem of shiny textures looking like plastic. His armor looked really bad. Everything else looked holy crap amazing, though.

I was thinking the same thing, armor is laughably bad, lighting and particle effects were amazing.

Coming soon to the next Xbox: embers, embers everywhere.

So bored...

@Alphazero: Thought exactly the same :-D

Good to finally see this. That swirly particle operation is clearly perceptual, so it demonstrates a feature of the engine but it looks really surreal and I doubt any game worth its salt would use it as is. The depth of field and convincing landscapes are really impressive. After reading a paper that explained that that the blurry lights are just the backfacing sides of blurry cubes, I can't unsee that, but I can at least appreciate that its a decent approximation of boku.

Of course, keep in mind this is a demo built for a Geforce 680. That's not crazy, but its obviously not representative of what will be in 2013-2014 gaming consoles. A million particles is lovely, but likely not realistic, unless they build one hell of a high-end system-on-a-chip for the next-box.

Makes me wish I could afford a decent PC

Looks real gritty like I would expect from Unreal Engine.

Yeah yeah well done Epic. But when is Unreal 3 coming out? Wanna shoot me some Skaarj.

@Slaegar said:

I see they still have the problem of shiny textures looking like plastic. His armor looked really bad. Everything else looked holy crap amazing, though.

First thing I noticed. I thought we got past the "everything is shiny and looks awful" thing after the first two years of UE3 games.

@ThePilgrums: yeah 2-4 sounds about right. the other unreal video posted at a similar time shows it using aprox 1.8 - 2GB of ram,. A clue maybe :) but who knows. I didn't realise consoles used faster GDDR, I learnt something :D

Looks like Square's 'Luminous Engine' has a similar amount of particles to throw around in thier PS4 Final Fantasy tech demo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQB9ds2AYwM

Impressive tech demo. But then again tech demos are supposed to impress.

It's a good thing that dude is, like, burning from the inside and stuff; that looks like a long, cold walk.

This makes me think of "The Wheel of time".

Lighting is good but what I want is destructible environments with real physics applied to the rest of the structure.

but does it run crysis?

Quizno's ad on a gaming site? nope.

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo pretty! Less plastic then ever!

@umdesch4 said:

@Cmdc00kie said:

I really suggest people go to nvidia or the many other places that have the source video of this for the better quality. This video really just doesn't do it justice.

Do you have a link? I've been poking around since this was first released about a week ago, and haven't found it anywhere better than 720p, as a 65MB file, which is astonishingly bad compression level.

For you and anyone else, http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/stunning-videos-show-unreal-engine-4s-next-gen-gtx-680-powered-real-time-graphics/. Last I checked though, the second link there for the demonstration of the effects doesnt work sadly.

@Cmdc00kie said:

For you and anyone else, http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/stunning-videos-show-unreal-engine-4s-next-gen-gtx-680-powered-real-time-graphics/. Last I checked though, the second link there for the demonstration of the effects doesnt work sadly.

Still, 911 MB download of the Elemental demo is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping to see. I'm looking forward to watching this soon, and I'm sure I'll be properly blown away. Thank you so much for digging that link up for me. Hugely appreciated!

PS. I tried the second link, and it's doing something at least. Given that the video is a whopping 3.3 GB though, it'll be a while before I know if it worked... ;)