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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zjPiGVSnfI

EDIT: Higher quality version available for download in here (might need to log in): https://vimeo.com/121146483

...or in here: http://www.gamersyde.com/news_unreal_engine_open_world_video-16335_en.html

Created by Epic Games, Kite is a short film about a boy as he pursues his stray kite through a diverse and beautifully realized landscape. Everything you see is generated in real time by Unreal Engine 4 at 30fps. This demo showcases Unreal Engine large world features, photo reconstruction and procedural asset placement. Get Unreal and get going for free at www.unrealengine.com.

This real-time short film was first shown during Tim Sweeney's State of Unreal Engine GDC 2015 keynote. Just before the GeForce Titan X announcement (which this demo was running on).

Here's the presentation/making-of/behind the scenes and Q&A: http://www.twitch.tv/unrealengine/b/632598238?t=45m28s

The GDC presentation is now on YouTube: GDC 2015: Creating the Open World Kite Real-Time Demo in Unreal Engine 4

 

[KKRT00]

This can do for now, but i really hope we get this on gamersyde.

 

[Samurai G0SU]

I'd watch it if it was just a movie.

 

[red731]

WE TOY STORY NOW!

 

[emperorspride188]

That's just plain awesome

 

[Ol No Bones]

There must have been some kind of gravitational anomaly in that cave. Someone should check that out.

 

[Trace]

So we're finally at the day where we can do 3d movies in real time.

Such a world.

 

[Septimus]

Real time 30fps on what card though?

 

[Mad Season]

awesome

 

[Philippo]

Beautiful.

 

[Dictator93]

Real time 30fps on what card though?

The Titan X

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

Real time 30fps on what card though?

On the new announced TitanX

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

Them goddman rocks, the goddamn moss, man.

 

[TacticalFox88]

And...I want Pixar to make a movie about this concept.

Goddammit.

;__;

 

[FACE]

Real time 30fps on what card though?

On that beastly card NVIDIA just announced

 

[Extra Sauce]

Now replace the kite with a jetpack, baby you got a stew going.

 

[Helznicht]

There must have been some kind of gravitational anomaly in that cave. Someone should check that out.

Its a feature.

 

[Man]

Genuinely my first thought was: "Why are they making a stupid pre-rendered CG video to celebrate Unreal?"
It looked just 'fake' and goofey enough making me not consider it real time.

 

[injurai]

Real time, but fixed camera angles...

Well God of War 4 will look amazing this gen at least.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

Now lets pretend we can keep saying "but it will all look like some beefed up marine from some future deathmatch tournament with exo-suits and rail guns"

 

[roytheone]

Well, this is definitely a lot different than their normal tech demos. I like it a lot.

 

[KKRT00]

Real time, but fixed camera angles...

Well God of War 4 will look amazing this gen at least.

What?

 

[Objectively Bad Opinion]

Did anyone else notice all the ghosting or was that just YouTube/me?

 

[Trace]

What?

Apparently movies don't have fixed camera angles.

 

[BigTnaples]

Holy shit.



Between this and playing the Order this morning, a am really finding it hard to comprehend just how far we have come since I was a kid.


And how far we still will go.

 

[Azure J]

That was a cute little video. Really love the vibrant colors on display. The rocks are spectacular as well speaking as a entry level graphics enthusiast. :lol

 

[Terbinator]

With the amount Nvidia are going to be making off the card you'd think they could at least license the real song.

 

[injurai]

What?

They claimed it's running real time, but we never see graphics match that level of fidelity from actual games that come out. They are cut-scenes, pre-planned, with a fair amount baked rednering. Fixed camera angles. We will only see a handful of games come close, God of War has typically been one because of it's fixed camera angles.

Apparently movies don't have fixed camera angles.

They know exactly what will be in frame, they don't have to worry about culling.

 

[Foshy]

:Q_______

 

[gofreak]

Very nice. If I had to nitpick, it would be some of the asset pop-in. Will this be available to download?

 

[RoboPlato]

I loved that just as a short, not just a tech demo.

 

[Tenebrous]

This with the minor pop in ironed out is pretty much the point I say enough is enough. If graphics don't get better than that, I'm alright with it.

 

[AAK]

Subliminal PETA marketing?

/Kappa

 

[Dennis]

What a time to be alive.

All I see is the RPG potential.

 

[monlo]

this was fantastic. the lighting really stood out for me

 

[Durante]

Epic.

 

[Doffen]

Instead of making all these pretty videos/demos, why not just make a pretty game?

 

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https://twitter.com/UnrealEngine/status/573186858122780672

Stay tuned to http://Twitch.tv/UnrealEngine for a talk at 11AM PT that goes in-depth on how we made the #UE4 Kite demo.

 

[Azure J]

What a time to be alive.

All I see is the RPG potential.

No lies, when they got to the cave scene I was really pining for something like this.

 

[MadmanUK]

Kite dies at the end, will not buy.

 

[eso76]

Can't wait to play Elder's Scroll VI with landscapes like those.

Ok, more like Elder's Scroll VII.

Or IIX, actually.

 

[Razgreez]

This with the minor pop in ironed out is pretty much the point I say enough is enough. If graphics don't get better than that, I'm alright with it.

I can never understand this sort of sentiment. We have movies like big hero 6 which keep raising the bar further and further and people are willing to say "that's good enough". Someday people will be playing games in VR that look as good as that and will likely be bemused by the fact that their priors were willing to accept less

 

[iNvid02]

should have been a dragon at the end that ate the boy and roasted the kite

then the word EPIC in flames and cut to black

 

[Portugeezer]

Titan X?

What resolution was this demo at?

 

[K.Sabot]

should have been a dragon at the end that ate the boy and roasted the kite

then the word EPIC in flames and cut to black

yeah not diggin the schmaltz

 

[Son of Flounder]

Was that Milo? Has he broken free from Molyneux's evil grasp?

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

With the amount Nvidia are going to be making off the card you'd think they could at least license the real song.

This is made by Epic

 

[Durante]

Instead of making all these pretty videos/demos, why not just make a pretty game?

Have you seen Unreal Tournament?

 

[jediyoshi]

Needed to end with a reaper ship coming down from the sky.

 

[1.21Gigawatts]

Dat rock!

At first I wasn't that impressed, maybe with the scale of it, but overall it didn't look like a huge step forward.
But then came the close up at the rocks in the second half, that was pretty impressive. An open world were even the little things have such detail!
Question is, is it feasable for developers to fill a huge world with such detail?