Now that people can buy the licence for Epic's Unreal Engine 4, the tech demos available with their new engine have popped up on the web thanks to the magic of NeoGaf[/url]. Since we managed to capture properly the Effects demo, here it is in 60 fps Gamersyde quality. Let us just remind you that the demo is quite old now as it was made back in 2012, so we can expect the engine to be even more impressive today. That being said, this should give you a pretty good idea as to what to expect for the new generation of games.
Update: Elemental demo video added. We captured it at 30 fps so the framerate would remain steady.
Update 2: One last video added.
All comments (31)
Pretty interesting to see stuff like particle effects that are very "PhysX" that work fine on AMD hardware. It's all fairly old and as a result not very well optimized or crazy impressive but some of it sure looks nice (reflections in particular).
When the hell are EPIC going to show an actual game.
So I don't really think that is what proper games will look like running UE4.
Epic is an engine company. First and foremost. And all they need to make that engine functional is to make a game. Doesn't need to be Gears of War, Halo, Skyrim, etc. It just needs to be a polished final product. Instead of injecting your usual cynicism, try learning a bit about the reality of the situation.
Epic made some games, but they've always made their money from their engine, ever since Unreal.
If you just want games running the engine, there are plenty out there. Even one released (Daylight). And that EVE VR game was just announced to be moving to UE4 instead of Unity (which is what they prototyped the game on).
Games are being made on the engine, but it's super early on and it's the first major iteration they've had in about a decade. It'll take a while to get the engine firing on all cylinders.
The quixel applications are pretty sweet though.
I sure won't need a new rig to play my 'cave games' :)
The two things that I really wanted to see advance this generation were lighting and animation. They are both lacking.
OT - I love tech demo's and EPIC is doing a great job of showing off what their engine can do by putting it in the hands of artists and creating demo's like these.
Lol