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UE4 Tech Demo: "Unreal Paris Virtual Tour" aka most incredible thing I've ever seen
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Sephiroth_GR_
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I'd love to play an UE4 version of P.T.
Quite OT, but sure
A 6-core Haswell-E running at 4 GHz, 16 GB DDR4, a Zotac 970, ASUS Xonar DGX and a Blackmagic Intensity Pro.
I love builds that don't skimp on the cpu, nice.
Walking simulators in UE4 are going to be super pretty.
You can't say that when the video is a) 720p b) on youtube, where every video is compressed. The actual demo is a lot prettier, because it's not a compressed video.
Peterthumpa
Member
Amazing.
It's UNREAListically clean.
Peterthumpa
Member
Sometimes yes, specially regarding mirror reflections. But some times, like the room earlier in the video? Fooled my girlfriend.
There is a titanic vr experience being developed with unity, but it looks no where near as good as this.
It's funny you mention the titanic, I have a fascination for seeing that ship recreated in pain staking detail as well.
I just had a look at the video, it's quite blurry and even a bit stuttery, the demo actually looks even better in person. People should grab it when they put it online again.
I primarily got it for compiling faster, that scales almost linearly with the number of cores if you have enough translation units.
shinobi602
Member
If it was completely static like that, sure. Actual games have dozens of other systems going on though. Physics, particles, AI, characters/NPCs in the environment, number of objects onscreen, other dynamic systems, etc. Factor all of that in and you won't see something looking exactly like this demo just yet. I think Quantic Dream may be able to get close to it. But things like shooters? I don't think so...
Go open world? Not a chance in hell.
Normal people.
Seriously? I could wrong but not seems something of particularly crazy to handle.
It's very, very good, but I wish elements weren't repeated so much, in such close proximity to one another. It's really apparent that only one cloth sim mesh was made for the window curtains (with left and right side curtain per one window), for example; having two windows with curtains on them in the same room, close together, really breaks the illusioin. Same goes for the same asset for the stacks of magazines on the headboard shelf above the bed.
Very impressive demo, on the whole. I don't want the above paragraph to sound like I'm a detractor. Just a mild critique. (This kind of stuff happens all the time in dev because you might only have time to do one asset of a particular type [ex. stack of magazines], rather than having multiple variants in your asset bank.)
Very impressive demo, on the whole. I don't want the above paragraph to sound like I'm a detractor. Just a mild critique. (This kind of stuff happens all the time in dev because you might only have time to do one asset of a particular type [ex. stack of magazines], rather than having multiple variants in your asset bank.)
Dictator93
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I think the shininess has a lot to do with the metalness workflow in UE4. I wonder how they are going to add in other BRDFs eventually.
I had figured it was for development. I just like having a good cpu as my build foundation.
The interior architecture was very French Victorian though, I felt. Crown molding-ish stuff and embossed patterns, very high ceiling, windows, and slim doorways with double French doors. It seems like an apartment in Paris today, with a modern slant to the actual interior decorating and design of spaces like the bathroom and kitchen.
ScepticMatt
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It's the shading work that really shines here. Especially the glossy inter-reflections.
Edit: But never thought "yep, that's real". The shadows and ambient occlusion give it away.
Edit: But never thought "yep, that's real". The shadows and ambient occlusion give it away.
SPACECADET
Member
great graphics, horrible gameplay. huehue.
Yeah, a much better assessment.
Embarrassed because I should know this.PS: best roof style ever.
The Shogun
Banned
Unreal Engine 4 is godly
ricardo_sousa11
Member
This is just polygons, nothing moves, and theres no AI, simple textures, no animations nothing...Ps4 could probably do this smoothly with no problem.
I don't know what you mean by textures, but the materials are probably the most impressive part in this, and what makes it look so photorealistic.
dark_inferno
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It all depends on the Streaming System when it comes to Open World and Shooters. And yes you are right you cant get this quality on a Console right now. But P.T. is nearly there and it is a game that was done in the first year of the Console.
Remember that the best looking games of a console will always be those that were made in the last years of the console lifetime.
Maybe we get this quality maybe we dont. Let us all sit down and watch.
Ghost_Messiah
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Dat photo realistic bedroom. Dat lifelike bathroom. Yeah this is super impressive and quite possibly the highest level of graphical fidelity I've ever seen. There's barely any touches or hints in the demo of it even being computer generated. You have to look really hard to find faults that break the immersion and impression of photo realism. You could take a screenshot of any frame of that and it'd genuinely look like a real photograph. I honestly never thought UE4 was this fucking awe-inspiring and good. I thought it was a modest upgrade to UE3 TBH so mind fully blown Shinobi.
We're limited by hardware ATM because Sony and Microsoft released machines with modest specifications and then there's expense; I can't imagine how much a full fledged game with this level of visual fidelity would cost. $500 million or something?
It's very promising and positive for the future of gaming though. Makes you wonder if we can do this in 2015 what games on the PS5/Xbox Two will look like late in that generation.
We're limited by hardware ATM because Sony and Microsoft released machines with modest specifications and then there's expense; I can't imagine how much a full fledged game with this level of visual fidelity would cost. $500 million or something?
It's very promising and positive for the future of gaming though. Makes you wonder if we can do this in 2015 what games on the PS5/Xbox Two will look like late in that generation.
A room......IN PARIS!
This is what I was going to say heh, as I watched the video I couldn't help but imagine this very well could be what Heavy Rain would've looked like on PS4.
I think a game like P.T. can also do it.
But yeah, no way GTA VI looks like that on PS4 while also having great physics, a number of AI, etc. Still, I'm very impressed with InFamous and The Tomorrow Children, I didn't think an open-world game would look this impressive a few months in (InFamous) or that a game with such a nice use of material based lighting would appear so soon (The Tomorrow Children).