| Hollywood special effects, and those of your video games are merging as technology progreses. Unreal Technology the company behind the most powerful graphics engines out there have been hard at work for years, evolving their systems to get us one step closer to photo-realism with their new Unreal Engine 4. |
Artists and designers can bring their visions to life directly in game without programmer assistance via the new Unreal Engine 4. This offers programmers the freedom to focus on core gameplay features and sophisticated systems. With significant new visual features, Unreal Engine 4 enables video game designers to achieve high-end visuals, while remaining both scalable and accessible to make games for low-spec PCs.
Unreal Technology's senior technical artist Alan Willard spent some time with Engadget explaining various aspects of the engine and what gamers can expect from future titles powered by UE4 (see video below)
"Moore's Law is a great baseline," Willard explained. "You can just rely on things to double every couple of years or so. Some of it extrapolation, some of it is watching the wind blow and seeing that the costs of processors are dropping greatly. And we see whether Nvidia is going to have something ready in time for [console makers] to start developing new hardware. It's a strategic decision, and all of development is guess work at some point. But a lot of it experience with the industry and knowing how strategic decisions are made - not only internally, but how other companies make them, and trying to follow that."
With developments like the Unreal Engine 4, combined with new user interface technologies like Leap Motion's, lifelike augmented and virtual reality technologies will move from concepts to reality. With the incredible investments in the video game industry, in the future increasingly we will see technology and businesses spin off into non-gaming applications.
SOURCE TG Daily
| By 33rd Square | Subscribe to 33rd Square |
0 comments:
Post a Comment