This Is One of the Best Forest Environments You've Ever Seen, Powered by Unreal Engine 4 & Megascans

DSOGaming writes: "Quixel has released a new video, showing a jungle environment in Unreal Engine 4 using Megascans. And this latest environment from Quixel looks spectacular, rivalling those CRYENGINE-powered jungle environments of the Crysis series."

[PLASTICA-MAN]

Sadly it doesn't even use the new foliage system that has backscattering from leaves brought up by 4.7 update (now 4.7.1) because this video was made using 4.6, otherwise it would have looked even better (it would have looked even better if they used distanfieldGI that the preview version version of 4.8 has).

[starchild]

Yeah, that definitely would have given the lighting more realism and made the whole scene look better.

[Scatpants]

Your right, because as it is it looks like sh!t. /s

[GMR_PR]

It looks alright i guess. Not blown away.

[XboxOneX]

Yes I totally agree. Unreal Engine 4 always has looked much superior.

[UKmilitia]

but it isnt a game or anything so i dont get why its good.
make a game using it and i be impressed.

[MrSec84]

Gorgeous!

[SolidStoner]

dont know why.. it reminds me jungle of MGS3.. :) also all those animals, snakes and other blood sucking creatures is a must in these kind of woods! :)

[MEGANE]

nope, but i saw Nathan drake running through those jungles.

[DevilOgreFish]

looks absolutely gorgeous. UE4 is very different from UE3, in fact they look almost nothing alike. I've been told the only limits to UE4 is your hardware and talent.

[LifeInNZ]

Yes, but given its the unreal engine its probably all indestructible and does not react to explosions, etc. Who needs to buy a DLC bullet proof vest when all you need to do is find cover behind a bush.

[fitfox]

So beautiful! i love it when video games take time for serene moments like this :)

[jhoward585]

Wow, I have never been to paradise before until now. This looks incredible.

[Dan_scruggs]

Call me when it's playable.

[Braid]

I'll be the one to state the ugly truth: add gameplay mechanics, enemy AI and gunplay to that environment and the FPS goes down to single digits.

[kickerz]

Be good if the next tomb raider looks like this :)

[PistolsAtDawn]

...well except it'll be (at least mostly) in the snow :)

[kickerz]

Good point lol

[PistolsAtDawn]

Looks Great

[SpinalRemains138]

Needs Dark Souls mushroom families.

[MultiConsoleGamer]

Foliage is the new water effect.

[Eidolon]

Is something like these particularly hard to handle? Could we see a game with as good environments?

[Perjoss]

IMO if you're going to attempt to go in a photo real direction for a game this is how it should be done, it leans more towards a fantastical look. Games that try too hard to be photo real just look boring.

[tubers]

The waterfall looks terrible.

Ryse Jungle, an actual playable level, doesn't look much worse than this. Only differences are different types of foliage and color grading.

[krypt1983]

wow jungle lvl for gow 4 confirmed ... can't wait gow is going to look fucking fantastic with unreal 4...

[DemonSlayer420]

For sure. Here's hoping we get a 2016 fall release I'm all in day one.

[badboyz09]

Meh

[Haru]

You probably need at least a 3000 dollars rig to be able to run that at a decent framerate

[Relientk77]

Looks pretty nice

[guyjean]

not that I could make anything better within the next hour, but...meh. The wind dynamics don't make sense. But there definitely is a lot of potential.

[THEzRude]

I have seen better.

[Rhythmattic]

Great detail, (in 1080) which I'm sure the Megascans system is promoting...

But, the lighting engine is so bad, (In this Case), looks like a cartoon and it totally takes you out of the emersion....

Anyway, as a keyboard critic, it doesn't make me go "wow"

[PersonMan]

I think this needs physical based lighting. The materials aren't reacting to the light in the proper way. Everything looks either plastic or lack reflection completely.