Gears of War studio The Coalition demos Unreal Engine 5 in new videos

Gears of Struggle developer The Coalition confirmed off what the studio — and the Xbox Sequence X — is able to with Epic Video games’ new Unreal Engine. In a pair of demos, which The Coalition made clear “don’t symbolize a recreation product,” we get a peek at ultra-realistic character rendering and two main new options of Unreal Engine 5: Lumen and Nanite.

The character rendering demo reveals a human male character rendered in excessive element: His physique consists of 130,000 triangles, with one other 31,000 devoted to his face alone. His hair, beard, and eyebrows eat up one other 3.5 million.

In one other demo, The Coalition showcases the real-time lighting and reflection know-how, referred to as Lumen, in Unreal Engine 5, and Nanite, “which permits for limitless triangle price range.” Epic Video games announced those UE5 features in May 2020, as a part of a showcase of the sport engine working on PlayStation 5 {hardware}, however right here’s one other sun-baked, particle-rich, and glowing-mirrored-obelisk take a look at the graphics tech in motion:

The Coalition introduced in Might that it was winding down development on Gears of War 5, and shifting to new, unannounced projects using Unreal Engine 5. The Coalition mentioned it is going to be creating with UE5 “for a number of new tasks within the coming years.”

Epic announced Unreal Engine 5 final yr, and made the know-how obtainable in preview type in early 2021. A full launch is slated for late 2021. Unreal Engine 5 shall be obtainable for each current-generation and last-generation consoles, in addition to Android, iOS, Mac, and Home windows PC. UE5 is being developed with ahead compatibility in thoughts, Epic says, letting builders create video games in Unreal Engine 4 and transfer them to the next-generation engine later.

For a full take a look at The Coalition’s Unreal Engine 5 tech demos, take a look at the developer’s hourlong GDC 2021 presentation on YouTube.