NEXTGEN Terrain Physics In UNREAL ENGINE 5  

s there any way to record the impacts on the landscape in sequencer? would love to use for some vfx shots.

Can I set up projectiles to destroy the ground? Or bombs impacting the ground and creating crators?

Hi, with Voxel, can you run ingame modification of the lanscape / Layers ?

What's about chaos physics being actually chaotic? How had you made rocks not fall through terrain??

what else would they use

@@AzmiMaulanaHamdani poo

@@sean7332 Poo tech just hasn’t reached a point worth showcasing yet

@@AzmiMaulanaHamdani ROLLS!

@@AzmiMaulanaHamdani plants?

lmao

made my day 🤣👏

lol

Do not make jokes like that. Kids take that literally.

@@baronsengir187 ok, but some kids actually do that

Chivalry 3 confirmed?

stronghold crusader remake with all the old sounds and just new 3d graphics would be so cool

@@timbusta9808 That would be, insane!

WW2 game

what bannerlord should have been

So, battlefield?

@@picklechin2716 I avoided Battlefield because that game died 3 times now and the Necromancers at dice just keep reanimating it : ( Imagine what Battlefield 3 or 4 could have been with UE 5 and propper smoke

@@little_lord_tam bf 1

I am working on a game like this. Takes place in the 18th century. The battlefield is riddled with smoke, cannon and musket fire

VFX will come after to give you the effect you're lookin for. The whole purpose of this makes it easier for a lot of artist to work on if, let's say, there was meteors hitting the ground in a game. You're expecting UE5 ti be able to do EVERYTHING, that's not the point.

@@blueowlz Should have made clear in my comment that I understand that it's not something that's up to the engine, but the creator. Just like people complaining about the grass movement being too dramatic, I was simply commenting about something that could make the meteor impacts specifically look better. I understand that the video is just to showcase functionality, and I just came with an idea on how to make those impacts look better, nothing more. I'm not expecting UE5 to do "EVERYTHING", neither did I ever imply such a thing. The meteor impacts is programmatically set to remove one sphere on impact, so it's not outlandish to believe that the creator can programmatically make it create a donut of ground around the impact as well. :)

@@erikjohansson4374 then it that case, it's all good and understood :)

There's an excellent youtube channel named Sebastian Lague, they have a video of a fairly overview process of how to do something like this, fair warning he writes code in Unity and shader language to achieve it, but it's definitely worth a look! Video is called Coding Adventure: Procedural Moons and Planets

i dont see why that isnt possible. as far as setting up a quick cheap demo of deformable terrain though it would be impractical to go out of his way to implement such a thing. i agree though that would be next level terrain manipulation.

they use frostbite which is equally good imo

wait for battlefield 2042 it will be even better I have high hopes for that game

We already had this in 1994, magic carpet. EA develops for consoles, you'll never get anything ground braking from ea

@@eviltux65 idk man bf4s graphics are amazing and the performance is great for 2013

Performance is the issue. Battlefield 4 back in the day ran at 20-30fps on the xbox 360 and ps3 and still only ~50fps on the ps4 and xbox one. You put terrain deformation like that and the game will run at 3 to 5 fps.

Game changer

single person dev teams have been largely neglected. I'm glad to see some catering towards these kinds of people.

UE5 is not a time machine because we already are in the future

I knew there was a lot of new features in it but I didn't realize how game changing it was until I really starting looking into it.

The age of: _make your own game_ will soon be upon us. Eventually, It will be like DeviantArt, but for video games.

Such is life.

We have a whore epidemic. (Great graphics no substance)

For every 1 good game there will always be 10 bad games. Every generation.

And non of those terrible games use UE5

@@Knightimex that's pretty optimistic :D

yes I had to rescale the grass for the voxel landscape, so I had to tweak the wind movement.. I made it too aggressive in retrospect. I will try to improve on this in the future.

also notice that the grass moves through the rocks no collisions set for them.

@@danielsmyth189 bro it'd take so much power & time to set collisions for literal grass lmfao i dont think its worth it

@@lluck True, although maybe they shouldn't sway as much if next to rocks, so it's not as weird or clips through

its like a waterbed

@@fitzorpercy2884 I guess it's the difference between the smooth, play-doh distant landscapes we're used to getting (or the baked in skybox textures) and full detail, full lighting models. Like the nanite stuff has been cool to see, but the real benefit imo isn't so much the higher quality close up models but the ability to leave all the models at max quality, all the time rather than having to decrease LOD over distances. It means everything can be the same visual quality and actually fit the scene.

@@helplmchoking You know the models still decrease LOD over distances. It's true that the designer places the models at max quality, but nanite automatically decreases LOD over distances. It's what the tech does. You could still achieve the same thing before, just with a lot more manual effort.

@@human-ft3wk The difference is that you can only have so many manual LODs, so there's snap in. Nanite does it automatically, like how things in real life aren't as detailed from as far away. And mountains in the background of Nanite don't look like Play-Doh.

@@SwarumtheForum Hmm.. you're right, perhaps it wouldn't be possible to achieve the same thing before, even with a lot of manual effort. You'd have to make quite a few LOD's for every single model.

90% of what youre seeing is just dynamically created skyboxes. at 1:12 you can see how far the actual draw distance is, as grass and massive rocks start to pop into existence. this shit literally has a lower draw distance than oblivion, and close to that of morrowind.

i mean the draw distance is pretty low, shitton of poppin

Yes, the way the grass moves in the wind is strange. It looks like the ground below is moving.

@D K What is outside? Sounds scary... ;-))))))))))))))))

@D K says the person watching this video, and commenting just like everyone else.

@thatdudefromearth lol

It imitates wind waves, kinda

thanks for the feedback, this will be something I will improve on next time. see my pinned comment above.

I was looking to see if someone had said this yet-everything looks great but the grass movement just looks wrong! I couldn’t figure out how to describe it, but “like water” is about right.

The grass looks more bended towards the ground and moves like water

its wind waves??? you never seen a field before?? in a windy day??? thats how they act smh

Same

same

Same.

Grass fields can look that way, especially in stronger wind. You can search for "Grass blowing in the wind." on YT

Have you ever seen fields of grass?

kinda agree they can improve further but I've been on fields like those and they actually kinda like that

Always one that has to moan 😒

I agree, Also the rocks look like they have no weight to them, Like theyre foam movie props. not 500kg boulders

Uh, check out No Man's Sky.

Same idea. About gaming and real life physics It will take that shit into another level.

What's the idea? Sounds cool

@@maidenhead6661 What does your comment mean? Like what’s the context with NMS?

@@hmvaa fairly sure it’s about dev team size. In that you don’t need a large studio and workforce to make big games. Hello games who made No mans sky had a pretty small team at the start at least if I remember correctly

my god all we need

Literally the game I been working in for over a year solo. Soon my friends. Soon

Naruto*

i thought the same thing, fully destroyable environment in these kind of games will shine

I'm not sure if UE5 will allow to blow up entire planets ^^

bf 2042 is typing...

Bad Company 2 is typing...

I bet the next Battlefield (after 2042) will have this kind of terrain destruction.

that would be very cool

@Hannibal Barca Nobody knows what kind of physics BF2042 is going to have yet to stop hyping it up for no reason.

Thanks for working on this Joe. Yeah I thought it was strange to have such dramatic pop-in when also using Nanite. It made me think it's a limitation of the plugin itself.

Thank YOU, Joe. You're delivering high-quality content to us. About the specific issues you mentioned: - the pop-in rocks, I thought it was done of purpose to not make this demo performance heavy since the main scope of the video was not to explore the world, so for me it's a very minor "problem" - about the grass, I was not that bothered by the "idle/wind" animation instead I was amazed when the meteors were hitting the ground and the wind-animation of the grass was sped up.

i use your brushify tools and these 2 complaints are minor and so simple and easy to fix that i wouldnt even call these complaints. Personally i think the grass looks good and the rocks issue is just a foliage cull distance tweak. I know you always prefer performance over graphical fidelity...but i think even if the video is capped at 30fps with all things cranked up to max and at 1440p....this will look mind blowing. Love your tools Joe, cant wait to see what more you do with UE5.

@@edgesvideogames5582 yes after all this is just a quickly thrown together demo. but given the attention it's receiving i'm likely to further polish something.

Hey Joe, I was going to comment on the popping as well. I was actually surprised it was happening at all. I assumed Nanite would just wipe that out. Aren't the rocks static? Could you speak to what is causing that just a little?

try it, miner!

I am not the only one who remembered

@@D-One666 I can't wrap my head around the lack of destruction of worlds ever since.. Miss that game.

@@dthewave9466 agree... But what about the game Worms 3D?) But without physics...

@@D-One666 true, but I would have loved something like ArmA with fully destructible maps.

@@Xekazii yeah orison looks hella good. Just their planets/moons that are in need of something like this

The name comes from the game Unreal

Unreal tournament

@@itdobelikedattho8112 The very first Unreal was a singleplayer game. Unreal Tournament was made out of the single player game.

Everyone replying to me: *whoooosh*

and my PC would melt like cheese

maybe the reason xenoverse 3 is taking so long is because they were waiting for this to finish development lmao

00:40 was the moment of this video in which I had the same idea of yours...it would be awsome.

@@jacobhafar538 don’t get your hopes up 🤣

You can say it about RTX or u know... Matrix) but realtime Matrix - the revolution (will be) and no matter what ideas have been invented earlier on this topic. "Conceptually new" - is absolutely nothing in our galaxy. The truth is that things are divided into two types: you either can or you can't

such an underrated movie :(

@@Kaiserschmarrnic just watching that the other day. Could've been better but certainly not a bad movie. It could've rebooted the entire Alien franchise.

Bruh, yes

@Jimjim My thoughts exactly 👍 And Death Stranding 😉

True!! It has the same vibes

That was pretty damn sweet

Glad you noticed that! it's all hooked up to the new Brushify wind system :)

@@HavokSage Oh that's awesome!! It really makes the grass look so realistic

Just a 3070? lol

Can't wait to watch it on yt because I won't be able to afford it lol

@@PSPMHaestros same

@@CornerCamper I mean it’s a mid range card so quite a few people should have it / are getting it

@@thegaminghobo4693 I know what it is

Lmao. I laughed to hard.

NATURAL SURVIVAL TESTS WILL RLLY SELL SOME BUILDINGS

🤣🤣

I know some architect firms use VR goggles for their clients, so... heh heh heh.

Lol. R.I.P. bro 😭

Hilarious and original.

According to animators and movie buffs, high framerates and resolutions make it look fake and cheap; like a soap opera. Movie magic is low framerates so you can't tell that the animation is bad, that the mask the actor is wearing is made of silicone rubber and the actors don't know how to do sword play. Also, did you know that pops, scratches and severe distortion makes LPs sound much better than CDs? Just say you prefer good old 240p x 30 FPS youtube and you won't have terrible internet access; you'll be a trend setter.

a new boring game that looks good, and will make you play your old favorites more and more

theyll do the same thing they do with every iteration of this bottom tier engine : make a buggy mess of a game that barely works because UE is really for making movies, not games.

Another shit Ubisoft type game :(

​@@FingerinUrDaughterwat

STOP POSTING ABOUT AMONG US

like sims?!

Battlefield buildings fall apart and walls gets destroyed. Since BF4, and to me that's much more than just holes

@@0Freguenedy0 ground only so much though

if you haven't already, check out "From Dust" great little game that does water erosion really well and is basically the main mechanic of the game ​ @Frederico ground only so much though

The graphical fidelity of games didnt do anything to improve gameplay, I would even go as far to say it hinders it (lower framerate, resources deviation, etc). At this point so many triple-BUDGET-A titles look almost identical bcs practicaly all of them want to look as realistic as possible with so little else to seperate them from other titles in the same budget category.

@@zydian_ Ahh yes that is EXACTLY what I said better graphics means better games...smh. I'm more about what the technology is enabling, you seen what DLSS 2.0 is capable of and ray tracing etc? ''I would even go as far to say it hinders it (lower framerate, resources deviation, etc)'' Yeah it CAN be like that but a lot of the time it isn't. Do you think they could have made Red Dead Redemption 2 with the tech we had 20 years ago? I think not...

There's one coming in 2030 by mihoyo....but idk just hoping it would be goodV●ᴥ●V

2050 graphics won't be distinguishable from real life anymore 😳🤯

@@sirbughunter if you can't make the difference between real life and a picture on a screen you got a problem man

@@legros731 The point Sir Henry is making is, if it appears as 3d and the environment is interactive, you could potentially think of the environment like an alternative reality. Of course the real difference will always be eating and using the bathroom. And with the potential of having to wear headgear in 2050 still. However, it could potentially be 100% identical at some point in time. As per the screen issue, if people are capable of walking into a pane of glass, what is to say someone with a mental disorder may think their environment is reality? Doesn't even have to be a disorder. If interactions could be 100% identical with a virtual person, who is to say that those relationships may not be genuine? Or even replace human interaction in the real world. Just like the Turing Test, how do you know I am not an artificial being replying to your comment? The #1 issue will be replicating real life textures. Such as wood, getting splinters, feeling pain, feeling pleasure, etc. Today's technology can already allow someone to recreate their own house. But the translation from headgear to real life interactions has a delay that is noticeable to people. However, someone could still navigate their re-created home with little to no issue. And interact like it was an ordinary day of their life. The issue would be having to update the formatting to replicate food in your fridge. Tesla cars that contain all those cameras and sensors is a great means to understanding the connection between real life and the virtual world. And the thing with Elon Musk trying to put technology in people's heads. If you could do that, you could potentially interact with the brain to correlate the feeling of textures. Trying to make a physical device to recreate all textures would be near to impossible. But creating a false texture directly to your nerves, is another thing. At that point, any environment, any texture, and any interaction could be replicated. Therefore, it could potentially be impossible to know the difference between real life and a "picture on a screen." If you spent more time in the virtual world than the real world, life could become very blurred. If you lie to your self enough times, plenty of people can blur the truth.

@@legros731 Of course tapping directly to the nerves and replicating texture will still be complicated. But given enough time, there may be a point in time where there may be a very deep understanding of the brain. As well as perfecting the technology. At that point, that would be the pinnacle of interacting with technology (in a virtual way, not a physical means like devices) before potentially being able to upload people's so called consciousness. But technically, people are not sure if that is possible. The assumption is the host will not live, but the memories and emotions, etc would be copied and could be manipulated.

@@flameshoter6 you can say photorealistic put you will still be aware it not real life This is not the matrix

Yea. Sure. AAA.... More like *waiting room for 1-2 years after they sell you the game at launch for them to fix bugs so it might be playable but by then will have lost its playerbase* like most AAA games....

More like 20-30 years for full dive tech, 7-10 years for realistic NPC AI, and as for the graphics they are already at photorealistic levels they just need better performance (hardware) so that they are accessible to everyone (unless we are talking about simulated graphics/worlds at the atomic scale [light, water, wind, physics, etc.] for ultra realism, this will probably need 20+ years).

@@OnigoroshiZero why did i born in this century ? aaaaah i will be hella old ! xD

@@OnigoroshiZero or dead, who knows

@@OnigoroshiZero What's ultra realism?

​@@mythologue In games, the developers are using methods to simulate real-world phenomena (physics, light, weather, fluid simulations, etc.) in a computationally cheap way, but that is not how the real world works. In the real world everything is the result of the interactions of atoms and particles, but to use these for games is impossible with today's hardware, I don't know if even supercomputers today can do that in a large scale. Ultra realism is simulating everything in a game using real-world physics (atomic and particle interactions using the four fundamental forces), from the destruction of objects, to water/fluid simulations, wind, realistic weather (rain that makes the water flow and gather realistically), gravity, etc. This will probably need computational power that will exist for personal use in 20-30 years from now. Is this required for a realistic game world? No. Will it make games even better if it becomes possible? Probably yes, but it's my personal wish to see fully realistic game-world in the future.

Battlefield with this destructible environments put real life destructible environments to shame

Red Faction (released 20 years ago) still puts any Battlefield destructible environment to shame.

@@__goat__ true

I mean yeah... But not like bf games use the engines destruction capabilities to their full potential. You see all these cool tech-demos but they are not used over a large networks of players. To actually make such thing work reliably and playable over a network of 50+ players you have to make compromises

@@elfferich1212 THIS. So many people see tiny demo scenes and think that's what games built on this engine will actually look like. No. Once you add a load of features like enemy AI, multiplayer, general game logic etc, you can't keep the graphics looking this nice unless you want to run at 5 fps

It's a checkbox, other vids explain it really well

Yep even RTGI was be based on voxel cone tracing global illumination (VXGI) - it evolves a lot into different forms (Sometimes its just something similar). Damn voxels are everywhere in 3d graphics, I always be exited about new technologies what use voxels, especially sparse voxel octree rendering of geometry (its kinda similar to UE Nanite, but not realy) it feels like point cloud meshes but they are voxels and closer you get more detailed image be (fit same amount of geometry into resolution of a screen [voxel geometry]).....

Rip the PCs with less than 1TB hard drive

@@saeedbarari2207 well 1 terabyte SSD's are pretty cheap.

@@gytispranskunas4984 Being from a 3rd world country, I can prove it otherwise. Sure they're not very extremely expensive even here, but still, there are laptops too. Any laptop with less than 1TB of hard drive will be completely useless for AAA games as of next year... I'd even say 2TB , given the fact that the game companies may like the idea of putting their models right from Zbrush to UE

@@saeedbarari2207 I'm myself from Lithuania... It's 4th world country.

Yea, how dare some people enjoy Super Mario or Zelda, fuck those guys. >:( #Gatekeeping4Ever

@@NtoTheM why mention the Nintendo community specifically? UE5 will benefit all games no matter the art style or genre.

gamer moment

@@Et-an because some people think the switch cant handle unreal engine 5

@@raptorzeraora2632 yeah, it's kinda funny because one of the main selling points of Ue5 is to handle more with less

@@Fabio-ql5yf Lord of the Rings 💍

@@Fabio-ql5yf what's ATLA and TLOK?

@@sadkritx6200 Avatar The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra

@@expallesco ouu, never heard about the legend of korra before