Unreal Engine 5 is Amazing! -- Hands-On With The Matrix City Sample
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2024
- Released last week along side Unreal Engine 5 was the City Scene assets from the Matrix Demo (released for PS5 and Xbox the end of 2021). This amazing project showcases using UE5 for next generation AAA game development, including new features like Nanite, Lumen and World Partitions. In this video we show the Matrix City Scene running in Unreal 5. Additionally we look at how you can tweak performance to run the demo on less powerful machines.
You can also learn how to tweak the requirements of the City Scene demo in this linked article:
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Will you cover the Lyra demo and the tools they added for making levels in it?
9:10 - it looks like the people you interact with cast the shadows?
4:11
Mike: "So I'm gonna pause it for a second..."
TH-cam: "Did someone say AD TIME?!!?"
downloading this beast right now. I'm using a 9900K + RTX 3090. I only have experience in Unity, but Unreal is pulling me in. the built-in features are crazy. I love Unity, but it's more low-level and flexible at the expense of ease-of-use - similar to Linux. You can do most of the same, but you're either paying for 3rd party plugins or writing it yourself
Agreed
@@JosephSeed If you're a solo Indie dev or hobbyist, license shouldn't be an issue though, it's very rare to find a solo indie dev that makes more than 100K. But if you own like a AAA company e.g. companies like miHoYo that already has reputation then sure.
As I said before, really nice when you do demos of things, thanks.
Cinematic is really meant just for pre-rendered cinematics. You want to use Epic settings most of the time. The Cinematic scalability was the reason you were running out of GPU memory and getting poor performance. It's not even possible to run the standalone packaged game with that scalability level (unless you do some hacking) :)
Also, the Medium scalability setting disables Lumen altogether I think. That's why it looks bad. I think High is the bare minimum for Lumen to get enabled.
Time to pull out the same machine that can run Crysis.
You should look at CPU recording to free up your GPU for 3D renders. For example, in OBS Studio it's labeled as x264 and you can adjust tons of settings for performance and such.
Mike, they didn't use Chaos for destruction - but rather than that - a more elaborate bones & animation deformations. Check this out! :)
Ah, my bad there then, sorry about the misinformation.
Chaos is still used for the vehicle driving physics.
Yee
Its cool they released the example for this. I get the impression we're going to see a lot of GTA clones from UE5 lol.
Hopefully some City Skylines clones too with superior gameplay and graphics
I wouldn't be upset about that as long as the car crashes look good
js the only thing that keeps me with unity is the years of investments i made into it. but if unity doesnt start offering more with their engine instead of more things to buy, i may end up switching
It's nice that Epic decided to release the city sample for the community for free 🤩
In the talks they also mentioned that we will see some official tutorials with the city sample. Still waiting to get more information about how to use the tools that were developed for this demo. I really hope that these tools are modular enough so that we can reuse them in our own projects. 😉
I was pleasantly surprised to see that the big city level runs quite admirably on my humble i7/1080ti box. Not consistently smooth enough for gameplay, but more than useable for cinematics or just exploration.
you need to package it if you want the stuttering to stop
ue5 is unbelievable. can't believe the difference. even mannequin looks better. now got to wait for my assets to update before i can start making my game, again.
onboard 3d modelling and animation, has done it for me. i know blender is better. but them being in the engine, saves huge time.
I love that you have mass and can wreak havoc with your camera while flying.
with nanite, lumen, and the world loader feature, i suspect well see some MMORPGs on large scale here soon in UE5
you can hear the the laptop fan in the audio haha, brings me back when we used to play over skype and my friend had a screaming laptop
To be fair, that's more a side effect of my new laptop more so than UE5. ASUS have currently borked their control software so you can't manually set good fan limits, so it's either wind tunnel or quite mode, no real middle ground. Will probably do a review of sorts in the next few days as a follow up to my GameDev Laptop Purchasing guide.
Well from what I've seen thus far Lumen is the real performance killer that UE5, or at least this Matrix City demo entails, and there's not really any granularity for finely tuning it to maximize performance and visuals. You either have Lumen or you don't, and there doesn't seem to be much of an in-between, which is a bummer. Surely there's some kind of finely tunable settings, right? Should be able to still have some rad lighting, sacrificing a bit of quality, but not completely disabling it! What about the old UE4 stuff? That was way more performant and looked great, even if it wasn't on par with Lumen. It certainly looked a lot better than just turning Lumen off.
As far as I know, Lumen does completely remove the old lighting. It's possible to use old UE4 lighting settings in UE5. You can still combine that with nanite
I downloading that scene and it took forever to download and run. So I gave on it when I saw it available when 5 came out. I will try it again but yeah if this is the future. We will soon have terabyte file sizes as a base project. This is crazy thinking we came this far in game development over the past 30 years.
Soon console games will ship on a hard drive.
Yeah this sample is definitely way more impressive than the last film...
Wow, looks amazing!
Nanite is NOT an LOD system! It is vertex streaming. You would not calling it a culling system eighter. And no, the cars destruction is NOT run by the CHAOS System. It's done with bones and the RIG controller.
It would be more accurate that Nanite has subsystems that do equivalent tasks to LOD and culling systems
@@CyberWolf755 Very well said.
But Nanite replace the LOD system. It's like an auto-LOD system, so Epic Games deprecated their old LOD system.
@@T0mT4yl0r What nanite is doing is similar to LOD since it basically lowers down the amount of triangles a mesh can have in far distance
More tutorials on this city sample pleaaaaaaase, like how to migrate a project to it.
I'm currently working on a multiplayer at the moment, but I definitely want to come back to this at some point. Thanks for letting us know how cool it really is. 👍
Thanks , I was looking for a sample like this to work on and now I can use city sample to make my big game project
Great channel, full of quality content and constantly updated.
Psst, new info (just thought I'd post this here to let you know): Light brush 1.1.0 is out, you can find tool options menu with fine tuning for tools and additional features (the three dot button on top panel) and some new things for touch devices added, now everything is reachable without a keyboard. note: options/tolerances appear corresponding to currently selected tool, so like if a wand is selected - then the wand options will show up, same for brush, fill, etc. That's if you'd like to check it out, always appreciated. So yeah thought I'd let you know.
This is good info! Thanks!
Be honest how long it took you to compile the shaders x')?
2-3 hours if you disable hw raytracing, otherwise no time at all
Installing UE5 nearly made my mac explode..
lol
My ps5 runs the full demo pretty well
HI
Man please tell to new in Unreal. How to remove this annoying menu on the left ? It always appears during rendering . Theis written there : menu , Fly....( Yesterday I spent almost a day looking for a solution, and today, with no results. I understand that the checkbox there most likely needs to be removed somewhere. But I can’t figure out where anymore because my eye is starting to twitch.
oh please help me~! How did you get this play mode city into edit mode?? did you bake all meshes? could you please share your project by google drive or something? please
how do you rotate the sun and speed up time? timelapse a 24 hour sunset sunrise with cars and people passing in 5-10 seconds.
You're wrong about the size, it's 100gb x2 cause there is the cache plus the project you generate.
I think he mentioned it.
Do we know if this can be used for other projects / comercial use? Simlar to other epic assets?
how do we make a new camera and capture it into a film? I've used the movie render queue, but my camera keyframe is still unreadable. do you have any suggestions?
UE5 Is so good its uh...Unreal...
I legit yelled when the camera hit and damaged the cop car, which probably means the engine passed the Turing Test
I was disappointed that he stopped before letting the bus smash into the cop car. I wanted to see what that looked like.
I'm really struggling tp package this demo to run outside the editor. I wish someone would make a tutorial. Downloaded it 2 times, and it fails to package all the time. I split my Unreal installation and the VaultCache + project folder on 2 different hard drives. I wonder if that's related. But it keeps erroring out because it wants to use IOS or Android files while compiling, and those are forbidden folder names. I don't get why it's not letting me compile.
whenever i hit play, it just loads for a few seconds and crashes instantly. Does anyone have the same issue and know how to get it fixed ?
incredible
*Gamefromscratch plays BeamNG*
Can you tell me how to enable night mode in the editor?
I would love to use Unreal or Unity for my 3D games. But, both engines are too big and too heavy and clog up my computer. I hope that one day, they'll marry condensed versions of these game engines.
Try a smaller engine, like Godot or Flax
Godot is very lightweight, you should try that.
It’s unfortunate that your computer is your limitation to experimenting with something awesome.
yeah with this is the question do you really need a customs AAA engine now ? XD not surprised CD projekt is moving to in for the next game
You didn't pluralize nanite and lumin, congrats!
Man, we would have thought games will be quite small in file sizes when switching to SSDs. I guess that might not be too true during game development, but hey.
😎- Neo emoji
bro what the hell is your PC? XD damn
omg im stealing this city and i will make my own gta !
On which GPU or cpu shoud i put my money for best fps performance in ue5??
The general recommendation is to buy the most expensive computer you can afford
I'm really having a hard time appreciating what's so special about this, and I mean it honestly
because almost everything looks real, except the npc movement. walking in the city reminds me of walking in my own city, not 100 percent real, as the stores interior lack details, but very close.
Why am i not able to thumbs up lately.
Waiting for my RTX 😂....
Just deleted this project. Could not run it on med. I have a mid 2020 device and it hasn't been an issue ever.
Not really happy about that. aw well.
I thought it was weird how they shoved so many static meshes inside a blueprint, I always was under the impression to not do that haha. I heard to many child actors was not good, but if Epic is doing it, it might be alright? haha
But can it run Crysis?
Does all those buildings also have interiors?
No. They have a new method of cheaply rendering fake rooms behind the window glass. It's basically a color and depth image that they use to make a the fake room.
Check out their livestream on making the project, it's very interesting.
@@CyberWolf755 Yeah it's pretty neat. It's a similar system for Spider man ps4. Of course it's can break at times with some odd placements, but it's a good simple illusion if done right with some tweaks. But of course, you can create dedicated buildings with interiors and at any point they can easily convert those buildings to have them!
After downloading 12.8GB of data, I couldn't get Unreal Engine 5 to actually function. The menus were all bugged out and the screen quickly went black on me. I recommend waiting to check it out.
really? I just downloaded it 2 days ago (without this demo), everything worked like a charm.
Some people had issue updating to UE5 release from preview versions. If had preview version installed, uninstall it, make sure the launcher is updated and then freshly install UE5
@@CyberWolf755 - Nope. This was after installing the launcher and going straight to Unreal 5.
@@SullenSecret nice try Unity dev :)
@@drawmaster77 Actually it is true that some people have issues after downloading it. I myself even needs to reinstall 2 times before it runs. And it's quite heavy to run ue5's editor without lowering a lot of settings.
Woo
I can't program Unreal Engine. I'm not good at Unreal engine.
Finally, I can download and learn it.
Hey Mike! Did you know that Unreal engine 5 also run on cheap GPU? It even run on an old PC. I never ever seen something like this before.
ofc with 32gb of ram
It's basically UE4 with more plugins when you turn down some of the features. Hopefully nanite optimizations would allow for rendering above 60 FPS on older GPUs one day
Unless they can get rid of this blurring when something moves fast, it is practically unusable and i dont think it is motion blur acting, i have seen it on every nanite show case
Almost certainly TAA
My trash 8gb gtx 1650 is jealous of you
be glad that it not an ideapad 3 like mine.
This is a good way to kill your storage drive
Rtx 3060 ti 18fps
well Unity will have to step up its game now...their engine looks like a high school project compared to this.
Naaa. Unity is doing fine. ECS has been doing stuff on this scale for a while. They are both great it really comes down to workflow. Houdini is the real star here.
@@pogo575 I've yet to see anything of this quality in Unity. There's nothing like megascans alternative for Unity. Plus ECS is still not a mainstream feature so 99% of assets will simply not work with it afaik. Also much of the important stuff that should be in the game engine is delegated to 3rd party asset creators, and is of questionable quality. I can give several examples that I've dealt with just recently myself:
-Unity built-in navmesh/AI is too rudimentary (e.g.: no dynamic avoidance, AI agents just get stuck when walking past each other, no way to save navmesh as an asset, no way to update it at run time)
-No built-in character controller
-No behavior designerr
-Ragdoll is basically broken
-Lacking animation features for anything complex like inverse kinematics
-Destructable physics, what is that?
this is just a tiny slice of issues based on my own recent experience trying to build a fairly simple game. But it's the same in any direction you look.
I'll never download even indie games made with UE5.
I'm NOT downloading 20 Gigabites of a single damned non-compressed chair model xD
Geforce Now is the only way to play these games in my eyes
You have no clue... These are project files and large raw assets. The packaged project would be far smaller. Nanite has an amazing compressed binary format. Educate yourself.
@@jjacobs321 I'm pretty familiar with all compression methods on pretty much every platform.
The industry standard stops compressing textures the moment detail is lost .. and the best ratio I've seen for that is 1:4.
The build for this matrix project is 20-30-ish Gb .. for a city made of the same buildings repeated over and over.
I wish I was wrong, but for people like me UE5 is quite litterally useless
I wish I could use Unreal, but being forced to use spaghetti nodes instead of some sane coding language and generally unintuitive workflow puts me off.
Bit of the truth so, but you can code anything in C++.
C++ is a sane coding language. You just don't like it.
You can use C++ instead.
@@DavidBarlowDavido01 I love C++.
@@T0mT4yl0r I hate C++ 😑
how is this impressive? looks like gta 4 with rain mod