Every year computer graphics are becoming more and more complex and beautiful. In today’s movies, it is already difficult to distinguish between the real and the drawn objects. In this, artists and animators are helped by the most advanced graphic editors and editing programs. When it comes to video games, developers can use one of the many game engines. One of the most popular engines today is Unreal Engine 4, it’s used to create world-class games, as well as it is successfully used to create graphics in movies and TV series. This is a really powerful program, which is also distributed completely free of charge.
But time goes on and technology is rapidly evolving. Not so long ago Epic Games presented a new version of their proprietary engine Unreal Engine 5. At the moment only a demo version of the engine is available. Everyone can try it to understand its capabilities and tools.
What’s new in Unreal Engine 5
Epic Games claims that the new engine will bring a new age in visuals. It features a new virtualized system of micropolygons, a new lighting system, and a new animation system, as well as other similar features. With it, the developers should be much easier to make a picture that is realistic and elaborated almost as good as the reality.
Where you can download Unreal Engine 5
You can install the engine demo in the official Epic Games Store launcher. It is distributed completely free of charge and all video game fans will be able to test it. This is very advantageous and convenient for novice developers. Together with the engine also distributed the demo game Valley of the Ancient. It demonstrates the main features of Unreal Engine 5. Among them :
- High-quality visual effects created with Nanite and Lumen
- A large world created with Megascans asset library and their new geometry tools
- Destructible assets created with the improved Chaos fracture workflow
- New paradigms for organizing levels and actors, they can make it much easier for team members to work together on the same map
- Flexible real-time animation using inverse whole-body kinematics (IK) and motion deformation to match character movements with gameplay
- Modular game systems that can be loaded and unloaded in their entirety while the game runs
- Procedural sound effects created with the new MetaSounds system
- Dynamic music system using Quartz to synchronize gameplay and music
Recommended system requirements for using The Valley of the Ancient :
- 12-core CPU at 3.4 GHz
- 64 GB of system RAM
- GeForce RTX 2080 / AMD Radeon 5700 XT or higher
Minimum system requirements to use The Valley of the Ancient:
- 12-core CPU at 3.4 GHz
- 32 GB of system RAM
- GeForce GTX 1080 / AMD RX Vega 64
What are the system requirements for Unreal Engine 5 itself
The system requirements are quite high, but if you want to use a really powerful program, you need a proper computer. At the moment we only know the minimum requirements, they include :
- System: Desktop, Notebook, or Mac
- Operating system: Windows 7 64-bit or Mac OS X 10.9.2 or higher
- Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD processor, 2.5 GHz or faster processors
- DirectX Version: DirectX 11 or DirectX 12
- RAM: +8 GB
You should also understand that this is only a demo version, which is far from ideal and has several problems. It was released so that developers can evaluate the tools and learn the program. By the release requirements and the engine itself may change.
