All articles tagged with #nanite
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi explains the game will remain on Unreal Engine 4 instead of moving to UE5 to avoid delaying development; the team has customized UE4 for the Remake series and even built an in-house rendering system similar to Nanite, aiming for a quick, high-quality launch, with the broader news noting that UE5.8 brings Lumen to Nintendo Switch 2.
Neon Giant’s No Law is pitched as a dense, living cyberpunk open world for Xbox Series X|S, prioritizing handcrafted detail over map size. It uses Unreal Engine 5’s Nanite for surface fidelity, the Mass Framework to drive thousands of NPCs (over 3,000 simultaneously), and MetaHuman variations to keep characters unique, with weather and time shaping the city. Release window is 2027.
Scans Factory released a detailed Unreal Engine 5.7 Venice tech demo showcasing Venice in stunning detail with optimized performance, leveraging Lumen and Nanite, and demonstrating potential future game visuals. The demo runs smoothly on high-end hardware and is available for download, with comparisons highlighting performance improvements over previous versions.
Mawi United has released a new tech demo showcasing the capabilities of Unreal Engine 5.2, featuring a 2 square kilometers procedural burned and dead forest created using billions of Nanite triangles of custom photogrammetry scanned trees, rocks, plants, and more. The upcoming horror game, Layers of Fear, developed by Bloober Team, will be powered by Unreal Engine 5 and will leverage the engine's power to create a haunting experience with impressive visuals and audio.
Epic is addressing the stuttering issues commonly associated with Unreal Engine games by improving PSO caching in Unreal Engine 5.2. The new engine also features highly optimized ray tracing with Lumen and a virtualized geometry system with Nanite. Other exciting features include a new material system, Procedural Content Generation Framework, and advancements in MetaHuman and path tracing. While there is still a lot to be excited about, the stuttering issues remain a concern until the automated PSO gathering is fully implemented.
Coffee Stain Studios announced that Satisfactory will be upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 in Update 8, featuring support for Lumen, Nanite, World Partition System, TSR, and Chaos Physics System for vehicles. The game won't be fully lit with Lumen, and the developers will use Nanite on specific objects. The upgrade will use Unreal Engine 5.1, and won't include the PSO improvements coming to UE5.2.
Epic Games showcased the latest features of its Unreal Engine 5.2 game engine at the Game Developers Conference, including the power of real-time rendering and responsive, highly-detailed materials. The system demonstrated the capabilities of the system with renderings of an electric car from Rivian, using Unreal’s Nanite and Lumen technologies to create an impressive level of detail and realistic lighting. Unreal Engine 5.2 is available online now.