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Cinema-Quality Unity Engine 'Adam' Demo Claims To Run Real-Time On GeForce GTX 980 (hothardware.com)

Posted by timothy on from the leadering-to-better-graphics dept.

MojoKid writes: This week at GDC 2016 the team at Unity revealed their stable release of the Unity 5.3.4 game engine along with a beta of Unity 5.4. There are a number of upgrades included with Unity 5.4 including in-editor artist workflow improvements, VR rendering pipeline optimizations, improved multithreaded rendering, customizable particles which can use Light Probe Proxy Volumes (LPPV) to add more realistic lighting models and the ability to drop in textures from tools like Quixel DDo Painter. But for a jaw-dropping look at what's possible with the Unity 5.4 engine, check out the short film "Adam" that Unity has developed to demo it. The film showcases all of Unity Engine 5.4's effects and gives a great look at what to expect from Unity-based games coming in 2016. Unity will showcase the full film at Unite Europe 2016 in Amsterdam. But what's most impressive about Adam perhaps is that Unity says that this is all being run in real-time at 1440p resolution on just an upper-midrange GeForce GTX 980 card.

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  1. Whatever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is nowhere near cinema quality. The textures aren't all that great and the lighting needs work.

    Also note how they used robots exclusively because plastic and metal is easy to do. I'd like to see them try making a realistic looking human or animal.

  2. This is pretty impressive by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Especially considering that we're not talking about an engine with a price tag that makes AAA studios stagger. This is affordable, high quality rendering.

    One of the last big strongholds of AAA gaming, i.e. high speed, high quality graphics, is coming to an end. Certainly we won't see everyone who happens to have an idea for a game to crank out something over the weekend that dethrones the next clone in the Battlefield series, but this could well mean we're heading to a time when "indie games" are no longer games that have to convince with their content, wit or charm because they can't simply blow us down with effects.

    Hmm.

    I don't know... should I welcome this or mourn it?

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