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Re:A first look at Unreal Engine 5 by eslaught on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:54PM (#23171725)
The graphics are better, but camera and animations are a dead giveaway. It was fine when the camera was relatively static and far away, but shots with more movement became really noticeable. (Watch carefully, you can see the character's hand go through the rock in some places, or not make full contact in others. Once you notice it's hard to un-see.)

I'm sure this is all fixable, but some part of me wonders how much larger game budgets will have to become (or correspondingly, how much less content will be offered) in order to achieve the new standard in production qualities.

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Re:A first look at Unreal Engine 5 by grogenaut on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:30PM (#23172066)
- no shadows on the scarabs

- obvious SSAO when hand touched the rock wall

- odd reflections on the bird sculptures

- down-resing of textures and motion blur when she flew

- obvious uncanny valley face (pancake makeup, no subsurface scattering) on face closeup

- dust sprite clouds

were some of the things I noticed on my first watch

but it was still quite pretty. like what I'd expect uncharted 5 on the pc to look like

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Re:A first look at Unreal Engine 5 by robocat on Thursday May 14, 2020 @04:00AM (#23176730)
> motion blur when she flew

I think that was intended and programmed into the clip on purpose - not a side-effect of a poor engine.

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Re:A first look at Unreal Engine 5 by grogenaut on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:16PM (#23206349)
Sure but it was still "engine motion blur" not real motion blur. Just like SSAO is fake shadows and noticeable.
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Re:A first look at Unreal Engine 5 by uryga on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @09:44PM (#23174243)
also, the spinning shiny smoke in the portal looked like it's just a bunch of flat rotating textures
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Re:A first look at Unreal Engine 5 by grogenaut on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:17AM (#23175219)
aah, yeah but it was damned gorgeous :) it was on many different planes
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Re:A first look at Unreal Engine 5 by Shorel on Thursday May 14, 2020 @11:35AM (#23180784)
New games will be in a single room. But it will be a very detailed room.

Covid-19 games.

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