Soldato
Watch this: can you spot what’s weird about this unreal train station?
It’s something to do with an engine (but not a train-related one)
And not a single bit of ray tracing in `sight`
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Better than Ray Tracing - UE5 Lumen.
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And not a single bit of ray tracing in `sight`
And not a single bit of ray tracing in `sight`
Huh?
Lumen is just Epics way of doing Ray Tracing, in either software or hardware.
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure lumen uses ray tracing.....
EDIT:
Just had a google and yup it is a software accelerated form of ray tracing.
hmm I was under the impression lumen wasn't real time ray tracing.
Was a while ago since I read into it, so could very well be wrong!
*sigh* - sense of humour is very much lacking i see; clue is in the final line.
Still getting used to the new forum layout. I find myself often ignoring the 'last line' as it looks part of the signature.
Lumen (and UE5) is exciting tech that, along with more open source scaling like FSR should drive Ray Tracing into the hands of pretty much all gamers on affordable hardware.
Shame games that will use it are a couple of years away at least.
Shame games that will use it are a couple of years away at least.
Caporegime
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UE5 engine is looking crazy good! 
Caporegime
I always liked Lumen in Dexter.
Soldato
That looks super real, its like been stood at the train station in real life
Watch this: can you spot what’s weird about this unreal train station?
It’s something to do with an engine (but not a train-related one)www.techradar.com
And not a single bit of ray tracing in `sight`
lol performance, 7 frames per second
Caporegime
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Yeah man, it's a glimpse into the future atm nothing else
Caporegime
Looks good 
Associate
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Always important to remember that a lot of the realism comes from the camera movements, which avoid stable or static shots. If you had a more stable FPS-like perspective it would look less realistic as this perspective always breaks the immersion (at least for me). You can notice this in the recorded footage from the Matrix demo that was realised for the movie tie-in versus user footage from playing around in the same demo that has a fixed camera angle. For this reason I wish games would think about this and how to avoid overly stable camera perspectives (or repetitive camera bobbing) to help address this problem.
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Watch this: can you spot what’s weird about this unreal train station?
It’s something to do with an engine (but not a train-related one)
And not a single bit of ray tracing in `sight`
Amazing. I'm gonna test my kids with this when they get it from school.. now, how to the set the scene.. what reason can I give to show them without giving away the fact it's CGI..
It makes me wonder what games will be like in 2030. Funny to think how far it has came since 2001-2005.
Even Crysis felt like a new breakthrough in 2007, which looks quite dated now.