UNREAL ENGINE 5 OPENED EARLY ACCESS
Unreal Engine 5 is now in early access! Brand new gaming experiences with more realism and more options will now be available for all producers, big or small. It also introduced new technologies and tools such as Unreal Engine 5, Nanite and Lumen. You can access early access to this new technology introduced last year. In case you are wondering what Unreal Engine 5 offers, we have compiled the new features for you.
Nanite
With Nanite, a virtualized polygon geometry system, you can create games with a high amount of geometric detail. You can also directly import everything from your ZBrush work to photogrammetry scans with no loss. Push the limits of realism with millions of polygons!
Lumen
Lumen is the global lighting solution that allows you to create dynamic, believable scenes where lighting instantly adapts to lighting or geometry changes. You no longer need to write lightmap UVs, wait for lightmaps to Bake, or embed reflection captures.
Open World
With the Unreal Engine 5 World Partition system, you can automatically divide the world into a grid and publish the necessary cells. Thanks to the new system, more than one person will now be able to work in the same part of the world and at the same time. In addition, with the data layers feature, you can create different variations of the same world, such as day and night, at the same time.
Animation
With Unreal Engine 5's animation toolset, you can create dynamic, detailed characters faster and more effectively. Tools like Control Rig let you quickly create links and share them between multiple characters. Record and apply your poses with the new Pose Browser, easily create natural motion with the new Full-Body IK solver, dynamically adjust a character's root motion to align to different targets in a single animation with Motion Warping!
Metasound
UE5 introduces MetaSound, a new sound creation method. MetaSounds gives sound designers full control over DSP graphics generation for sound sources. It's also a high-performance system that lets you manage all aspects of audio processing to deliver next-generation procedural audio experiences.
Interface
UE5 Unreal Editor is now easier, faster and more efficient with an updated visual style, streamlined workflows and optimized screen space usage!
Unreal Engine's new project, MetaHumans, which has gained popularity recently, is compatible with both Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Engine 5. To try realistic people in your project, you can go to the Unreal library and try MetaHumans!