This Unreal Engine 4 tech video showcases next-gen weather/physics effects that will blow you away

DSOGaming writes: "YouTube’s ‘koooolalala’ has shared a mind blowing real-time tech video for Unreal Engine 4, showing some of the best Storm effects we've ever seen."

[NealGamby]

*Picks up jaw from floor*

[Tech5]

UE4 is only limited by imagination and hardware.

[bishup25]

video looks amazing.

"The demo was also running with 35-60fps at 1080p on a GTX970 on Epic/High settings. Moreover, the artist did not optimize this scene, meaning that it could run even better." https://www.dsogaming.com/v...

speechless. UE4 really is a great engine if that's what you can get from a gtx 970. gtx 970 is equivalent to a ps4 pro.

[Ricegum]

Bishop

Yep looks amazing, and even running at 1080p. Goes to show regardless of what these Microsoft fans on this site say, there is far more to looks than just resolution.

[Smokehouse]

I want that as my PS4 theme 😍

[RememberThe357]

This'll run real time on a base PS4, right?

[KickSpinFilter]

It's a still photo on the base XB1, right?

[RememberThe357]

Lol right? This looks amazing. I can only imagine what a level would be like with this kind of chaos, fidelity, and detail. We need these new consoles yesterday!

[Vegamyster]

Maybe for in-engine cut scenes but i wouldn't expect general gameplay to look like this, not at 4k anyway, the guy who uploaded the video said he got 35-60fps 1080p on a GTX 970, not optimized.

[iplay1up2]

Gears 5 has plenty going on in it, and it is easily in the top 5 best looking games this Gen. It runs at 4K 60FPS on 1X. So yeah with "4 times more powere" over X1X PS5 and Nextbox should be able to pull this off, especially in 1080p. 4K 60FPS will be mostly standard next gen. I don't recall either next gen system stating the amount of memory they will have.

[rainslacker]

I'd take better looking graphics over higher resolution myself. Upscaling is good enough today that the overall picture quality is fine using that technique. If its higher res, and better graphics that's even better

[Vegamyster]

I've played GoW 5 on PC with the settings maxed and the weather effects are not as complex this video, this is also in a controlled small environment let alone a playable game scenario.

[jeremyj2913]

I love how much of an improvement UE4 is over UE3. I absolutely hated UE3 last gen(except for fighting games) because it looked so bad in gameplay. It made beautiful pre rendered cutscenes tho.

[fr0sty]

I hated how developers were all "we can use shaders now! let's make everything look like plastic coated in baby oil!" during the UE3 generation.

[jeremyj2913]

EXACTLY! 🤣🤣🤣 And the texture pops. Ugh!

[Tech5]

UE4 has definitely made great strides with graphics to performance. UE3 also had a few good games that looked different from each game - Guilty Gear XRD, Mirror's edge, Gears3, Arkam Knight, MK10. to list a few.

[rainslacker]

UE3 was capable of so much more though. What annoyed me more about last gen was the overabundance of grays and browns, which seemed almost like a staple of UE3 games.

[iplay1up2]

Mortal Kombat 11 uses URE 3, and it is a great looking game. Imagine next gen!

[jeremyj2913]

That explains a lot actually. I thought it used 4 and was surprised it didn't look better.

[Bnet343]

MK11 looks PHENOMINAL I agree with you on that.

[fonger08]

Soooo we need a next gen storm chaser game, cause that would be awesome.

[timotim]

You see this Coalition??? Get to work on it!

[gangsta_red]

It seems like we get a showcase from something using the unreal engine throughout every gen that blows our mind but we never actually see it in real games released.

[Hungryalpaca]

The because these scenes are highly crafted for a certain result, In order to maintain stability and performance. For gameplay to be like this would require severe optimizing due to need AI, player controller characters, other physics and lighting interactions between usable objects and NPCs.

Next gen many games after a couple years will likely be like this.

[timotim]

I agree with Hungry, we will most likely see this exact thing with the next go round of consoles. The CPUs of this generation couldn't pull that kind of physics off.

[masterfox]

And this is why I'm keep telling physics and a dynamic environment has to be the way to go for next gen, that's the real generational leap imo, ray tracing it should be just another gfx element and nothing to brag about.

[FlyingFoxy]

The dedicated physics processor cards that used to be sold showed better promise than most/all current stuff they have in games, the company was swallowed up by Nvidia tho..

Now we got the stupid Gameworks crap that mostly tanks performance for what's essentially visual fx only. Half Life 2 did well with Havok physics built in since everyone could benefit, and it carried over to all the Source games, plus it wasn't just a visual effect.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Got to admit, that would look great and sound great with 3D sound in VR.

That's what I've been saying. Weather and physics.

[Xaevi]

they've improved the engine so much since it's release, but the best thing about it is that you can download it for free and just tinker around with it. They've really opened up so many possibilities cause of that

[phoenixwing]

looks cool

[xetiro]

It looks great of course. But being just a small standalone benchmark test this gives even more credit to what Naughty Dog was able to achieve this generation with a real product like Uncharted 4 a few years ago.

[starchild]

This looks vastly better than anything in Uncharted 4.

[fdkenzo]

Yes, but you dont understand....

[xetiro]

(To clarify)
What I meant is that, this is a great "few seconds" 2019 demo showcasing of weather rainy effects. It just reminded me how trully amazing were the weather rain effects in a real shipped product like Uncharted 4, three years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[timotim]

As good as that LOOKS, none of that is physics based...its all scripted. This UE demo is not just about pretty graphics...more than anything its a physics demo...those objects has calculations applied to them in real time. Nothing in UC4 comes anywhere near this in terms of physics.

[Sappi]

This will run on your TV, in the movie at best :)))

[kungfuian]

Next gen is going to be nuts! Also video much better with a second video of strong howling wind playing at same time.

[GameStallion]

Can’t wait!!!

[m2stech]

This was made by a youtube user running on a gtx 970? ffs why are we getting all these trash performance and graphics from AAA developers then?

[isarai]

Becuase they usually have an entire game to run aswell,

[Hungryalpaca]

Because this is a single highly crafted and contained scene with no gameplay elements? If this was a game it wouldn’t look nearly as good.

[Da12RespectA]

Damn that shit looks good!

[GruntboxWizard]

These tech demos never end up looking close to what we get to be honest.

[rainslacker]

Tech demo is about showing off what's possible. Typically centering around a few key features. It will not account for the entire design of a game, where sacrifices will be made to do more than what demos usually show off.

[Kyizen]

Reminds me of the storm from Anthem E3 demo and then when it came out in the game there was a few tree swaying during the storm (Dev - "Look at the trees moving back and forth!")

[telgou]

Unreal !!

[Orionsangel]

It looks almost as good as Pitfall on Atari 2600.