Unreal Engine 5 - Official Valley of the Ancient Tech Showcase

[Music] hi i'm chance ivey senior technical designer at epic games and i'm galen davis producer and evangelist for quicksole at epic games last summer we revealed the first look at what's coming in unreal engine 5 the next generation of our real-time technology and our demo lumen in the land of nanite since then the engine team has been working hard on preparing the tools and technology for creators around the world to get their hands on so that they can explore the new features and provide us with feedback now just a few months ago we assembled a small team of developers to see what they could build using these new features the result is a new practical sample project called valley of the ancient today we're excited to give you the very first hands-on look at some of the new tools and workflows that we use to build it now we've got a lot to get to so let's get started when setting out to make our demo we wanted to push the boundaries of what's possible with ue5 today while targeting next-gen hardware specifications here are sequences running in real time on playstation 5 and xbox series x [Music] okay welcome to the brand new ui in unreal engine 5. while a lot of the same features and functionality that you've come to know when you before are still present in the new ui we've added several new systems that put you at the center of the experience for example the content browser can now be accessed like a drawer using hotkeys allowing you to keep a clean workspace while still having access to all the content that you need we can also collapse and restore editor tabs to and from the sidebar maximizing the viewport experience and you're going to see a lot more of the ui as we get further into this presentation but we can't wait for you to get your hands on it now one of the main features of unreal engine 5 is nanite our virtualized micropolygon geometry system that frees artists to create as much geometric detail as the eye can see virtualized geometry supports orders of magnitude more triangles without compromising speed and replaces the traditional system of mesh lods handling all detailed transitions seamlessly without any additional setup in other words nanites lets the artist create while the engine does the work switching to this nanite visualization you can see individual triangles rendered out as different colors here in the viewport and because the geometry is now virtualized you can feel free to place assets like these all throughout your scene to fill out a massive player space using this debug view you can see individual instances represented by different colors from swatch to swatch each instance in this environment contains around 1 to 2 million triangles providing enough detail for the camera to roam with complete creative freedom now ue5's new anti-aliasing solution temporal super resolution keeps up with all this new geometric detail to create sharper more stable images than before with quality approaching true native 4k at the cost of 1080p while highly detailed assets are great on their own high quality lighting that realistically reacts to your scene is what opens the door to more dynamic worlds and immersive gameplay lumen is our fully dynamic real-time global illumination solution that immediately reacts to scene and light change making for more believable experiences and the gi hooks in directly with our time of day settings allowing for true physically based setups for photorealistic environments the mega scans library has meticulously calibrated physically based services and objects in the thousands of assets as of today and the assets that were highlighted here show just how powerful it is to have nanite and lumen working in tandem also thanks to the new sky atmosphere system it is incredibly simple to quickly simulate realistic time of day carefully art direct volumetric clouds and make modifications to things like atmospherics sun position and fog and for this example we wanted a fully dynamic scene no light baking and realistic interpolation between the different times of day of course when in development having access to high quality content that's easy to use helps you iterate quickly and saves lots of time that can be better spent elsewhere on your project with quicksole now being a part of the epic games family we've made the full mega scans library free and open for all unreal engine users bridge our online browser for megascans assets has historically functioned as a standalone application for quickly exporting assets in bulk directly into the engine albeit separate from unreal today we're happy to announce that bridge is now natively integrated directly into the engine ui now you can simply drag and drop assets directly into your scene for a more intuitive and connected experience and simply logging in with your epic id gives you immediate access to thousands of assets to use for free in your unreal engine projects we are constantly looking to enhance the value of the mega scans library and today we're excited to announce that we're adding a brand new asset type called mega assemblies mega assemblies are the natural next step for us in removing even more barriers for artists in crafting their worlds by combining existing assets from the mega scans library our artists are pre-assembling elements that can be quickly accessed and leveraged to populate your scenes using the moab set let's add an assembly to our scene and just like that we were able to quickly change the composition of this area in our map with ue5 we are reimagining what collaboration looks like for teams and projects of all sizes a common challenge when collaborating on large worlds is deciding how to structure map content so that everyone on the team can easily work without asset contention while also avoiding painful merge conflicts a new system called world partition makes traditional world-building workflows obsolete by changing the way that we think about map files rather than requiring artists to build out map content as a series of streaming levels world partition allows teams to think of a single map as one large world that gets broken down automatically into many smaller streamable cells on a grid these cells can be selectively loaded or unloaded in the editor to save on edit time resources allowing artists to only load up the sections of the map that they need on top of that changes to actors in a world partition map are tracked at the actor level not the map level this one file per actor approach empowers different team members to work on different actors in the same map without having to worry about their changes getting clobbered and emerge or having to revert to get someone else's edits now this approach means you could have artists lighting set dressing and reworking the landscape simultaneously all within the same virtual space managing this much content at runtime typically requires a ton of thought about how to stream relevant content in and out to stay inside performance budgets fortunately world partition handles that as well at runtime only the cells in a user defined radius from our player are loaded and as we move new cells are streamed in while cells no longer needed are replaced by their lower resolution hierarchical level of detail or h-lot version and since all projects have different requirements the cell size and loading radius are fully configurable to match each project's content streaming needs another feature that comes along with world partition is data layers data layers are a way to categorize map assets and collectively enable or disable them when you want to alter the state of the world working in data layers a separate group of artists was able to assemble a mythical reimagination of the environment with more interactive elements for our demo [Music] at runtime we can swap between these two modes streaming thousands of actors in and out and enter into the dark world let's see this in action as we go back to chance thanks galen many run time and interactive frameworks in unreal engine are getting significant updates in ue5 one thing we've added for animation is an experimental new full body ik solver which is designed to give you better results with less work here you can see it in action as the rig for our player character echo corrects itself to adjust for variations on the ground below her it's deterministic reliable and around 10 times faster than before to build and maintain more scalable gameplay systems we've also added a new framework called game feature plugins that will allow you to build and ship game content in a more modular way with game feature plugins numerous core gameplay features can be built in parallel with better encapsulation and finer content organization game feature plugins allow developers to add activation instructions to extend based game functionality register new input actions for players and interface with other frameworks such as animation when we shifted into the dark world we also activated a new game feature to give echo a brand new attack ability all of the assets and logic needed for the ability including new animations input controls blueprint code vfx and audio are contained inside this plugin and core game classes have no idea that these assets exist until we activate it we've also added a feature called animation motion warping which allows you to manipulate root motion animations to adapt them to the world echo's vault animation was authored to the specific dimensions of this rubble leveraging motion warping we were able to add notify states in the vault animation asset that can react to transform data passed in via blueprints this allowed us to reuse the same animation to vault over other assets of different dimensions like these pieces of debris by sending information about their size into the motion warping system before triggering the vaulting animation a blueprint script determines her rotation how high up she jumps how far she needs to move to get to the other side and where her feet should land motion warping then adapts the root motion of the vault animation to match this data also for the rift interact animation we use motion warping to place echo in the perfect position in order to ensure her hand would always touch the rift so on the topic of animation unreal engine 5 also includes our in editor rigging tool control rig meet the ancient a film quality creature imagined and built by our friends at the aaron sims creative company we partnered with aaron sims and his group of talented artists to concept the dark world and to bring it to life through an enormous mythical adversary now every single animation for the ancient was authored wholly in engine by the aaron sims creative team using control rig and sequencer our linear cinematic animation tool also just to push the boundaries a bit they even built it out of a collection of nanite meshes totaling over 50 million triangles attached directly to the skeleton control rig was designed to keep artists close to their creations without having to bounce back and forth between software packages allowing them to quickly iterate all inside unreal while imagining the battle between echo and the ancient we wanted to give the creature a heavy laser attack that echo would have to avoid we needed it to track echo's location in the arena and fire a slow sweeping blast towards her taking advantage of the full body ik solver mentioned earlier we were able to influence the direction and distance the ancient reaches out during the firing animation based on where echo is in the scene let's see the results here is what the base firing animation looks like and here it is again with the full body ik post process layers enabled and our info about echo passed into control rig with full body ik and control rig designers and artists can now author fully dynamic animations that react to gameplay without having to build complex animation state machines composed of numerous animation assets in unreal engine 5 we've completely overhauled the audio engine centered around metasounds a new asset type used for every sound effect in our demo metasounds bring the power and flexibility found in material editors to audio creation providing fine control for authoring procedural game audio with full audio synthesis capabilities and a rich audio function library meta sounds give unprecedented control over sound effects and runtime applications using metasounds we built the ancient laser attack out of a combination of sound samples and synthesized audio [Applause] let's briefly break down how it was set up using the stereo mixer let's isolate and play just the synthesized charge sound [Applause] this effect is made by using a handful of sound wave generators and multiple modulation widgets now let's mix back in our sound samples to hear the final result again [Applause] all right let's take down the ancient now everything we've been showing you in today's demo focuses on some of the new features in ue5 but many of your favorite ue4 features such as niagara particles and visual effects chaos physics blueprint visual scripting and more have also received numerous updates in unreal engine 5. plus all your ue4 projects can be upgraded to ue5 so you won't have to worry about forward compatibility for what you're working on now here at epic we are passionate about building great tools and new technology and a big part of our excitement is being able to bring you the developer community on the journey with us so today we're making an early access build of unreal engine 5 freely available on the epic games launcher and the unreal engine github so you can explore and test out these tools yourself to get an early look at what's coming later in the full release of ue 5.0 also we're releasing the project source for value of the ancient so you can check out how we use these features to build everything you've seen in today's demonstration we've got a series of deep dive conversations on these topics lined up for inside unreal our official weekly live stream where you can hear from the engine dev team and ask your questions now these are still the early days of ue5 and you can expect more news and features to be announced as we move closer to a production ready release targeting early 2022 follow the unreal engine social channels for more information and feel free to download the early access release of unreal engine 5 and the value of the ancient project today thanks everyone for watching and welcome to early access

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Id: SeY-ousiCPg

Length: 15min 36sec (936 seconds)

Published: Wed May 26 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/cupofchupachups]

My flat shaded low poly side-scroller is going to look amazing with this engine.

[u/Brangur]

Me before vid: hmm maybe some minor changes

Me now: HOLY $#!+

[u/unleashedcode]

Absolutely mind blowing...... can't wait to play and create......

[u/chargeorge]

They have the desert demo released and the minim spec for 30fps is a 12 core cpu. While I’m sure it has a ton of room for optimization I’m wondering if the error of games being primarily single threaded is officially done

[u/shagwana]

This looks great

[u/ctothel]

They must be so proud. This is amazing.

[u/prog_meister]

cries in UnityDev

[u/theslopdrudge]

Can't wait until I have a computer that can handle this... in 20 years

[u/IM_Brock]

It's really impressive how they can have so many high detailed models in the projects. Though wouldn't this make the video game file sizes huge for the users? Picture GTA V with this level of quality, it would probably be 100x the size of what it already is would it not? Have they addressed this anywhere else that I might of missed?