Unreal Engine 5.2 Feature Showcase | GDC 2023 

You guys have some very competent presenters. A good demo like this really takes some frustrating stumbling around out of the process of learning new functions. Cool stuff.

A great overview, thanks Chris! Timestamps 2:45 Nanite Displacement Map 4:00 Render Resources Utility 4:45 Niagara Decal Renderer 6:00 Sequencer Niagara Sim Cache 9:25 Soundscape Ambience 13:45 Procedural Content Generation (PCG) 19:30 Scriptable Tools

chris is always such a treat, what a great and fun presenter! I gotta check these tools out, can't wait for 5.2!

Chris is such a unique character, love to watch his presentation🙏

This presenter is priceless! So much love to product, team and users.

Finally a presenter that's neither cringy, or going into endless useless details while stuttering, OR reading up a badly premade script. More please!

Chris is a fountain of knowledge. Great presentation!

You guys at epic are doing an outstanding job with unreal engine! I'm so glad I use unreal engine!

I think UE5 in general is missing a massive opportunity by not simplifying some of the essentials that otherwise present a rather major gatekeep barrier for people who aren't diehard developers already. And I say this because UE5 has so much potential to be the engine that actually brings in new people who were otherwise not inclined to do game dev/art work simply due to how straining the general learning curve is even to accomplish the simplest tasks. What do I mean exactly? For example, something as common as removing texture tiling, sure there are a number of ways one could do it, but every single one of them requires 100s of hours of tool experience and tutorial exploration, and then also a good half hour or more of just doing the actual work itself. And this, just for the most simple thing like removing texture tiling -an issue literally every single game has to face, and is even one of the earliest problems people will have to deal with. Then there is the way meshes are imported, like height maps etc, its so full of bugs and you can literally do the exact same import sequence in 3 different scenes, and get 3 different results/issues. The whole layout is made excessively cumbersome, surely due to the complexity of all the features packed into the engine in general, but at the same time it also locks out so many potential newcomers who aren't already well versed in game dev stuff. Lots of clutter, needless windows everywhere, things aren't where you expect them to be, there is very little systematic structure to UE5 in general. I truly think splitting up the engine in a "simple" vs "advanced" mode could greatly benefit Epic as a whole. Where "simple" is minded towards focusing on the essentials for newcomers, getting rid of some of the heavy node-based blueprint reliance, automating the most commonly used features, and streamlining the UI for a more intuitive experience, and then let the "advanced" mode be the full restructure like how UE5 is currently. So much missed potential, I know many people who turned down UE5 because of these reasons.. The community could easily be 10x bigger if steps were made to ensure the barrier of entry isn't excessive, given how much power UE5 has the potential to put in peoples' hands, and how many people are drawn to it prior to never passing that initial barrier.

When the guy started talking about the particle effects decals that kinda blew my mind. I know very little about the development of games, but I love knowing enough to be amazed by it. Just thinking about how such simple things are actually so complicated but also how exciting it will be to finally have these tools. cant wait to see how people take advantage!

Chris, you are amazing, I’m gonna be implementing all of these on my worlds!

Amazing tools really... We don't even have time to master the previously introduced tools that a new Unreal version comes with yet another bunch of incredible novelties. What a time to be a game dev

This showcase was really good. Can we get more of those tool-howto's? And give that man a cookie or a whole box of cookies, he deserve it :)

as a newbie in UE5 cHRIS MAKES ME SO PUMPED TO TRY A NEW SCENE

I love this guy soooo much!! PLEASE tell him to do more videos/gdc talks. I'd subscribe!!!!!!!

Was nice to see it at GDC!

I am super excited for the Soundscape Ambience. I have been painting sound emitters with the foliage tool but it isn't perfect. But having a configurable procedural ambience is something I'm pretty hype over.

This is an incredible presentation! So much useful and on-point information without any unnecessary cringy humor. I wish more presenters were like that. Also, I'm really curious in the system specs of the PC used for this demo, as this was the smoothest and fastest demo I have watched so far .

YES!!! MY FAVOURITE UNREAL EVANGELIST!!!

Chris is so awesome! Love his presentations👏

Chris gives me big Ian Hubert vibes and that's wonderful

I could listen to this guy all day long

Great presentation man. On the node viewer, how do you straighten out the lines of nodes please? I always do it manually! These new features have me back on Unreal tomorrow. WOOOO!!!!

Anyway I can get the project used in this demo so I can dissect it? Or any of the projects from all the other demos? Or does Epic never release these?

Wow that snow tool is crazy actually. I need to use more of these tools later.

Dude, just five minutes in and that decal renderer is already blowing my mind.

As always a superb presentation by a very talented man.. One of the best presenters along with of course Zak Parrish :*(

this guy really knows how to present

This is definitely well presented!

Amazing!!!

Great Chris Gold as usual, long may it continue.

Chris was a great presenter and I just wanted to make sure everyone was aware of it.

the pcg 5.2 addition is a game changer for small development teams

This guy is a natural. He could sell me bottled tap water

This bloke would be a great teacher

Thanks for presentation, was really interesting to see what comings next.

He present it so well even an utter noob like me that know nothing about game development understood it... 😁

Petition for chris to be the permanent presenter

Really like this presenter, he reminds me of Jack White a bit.

I get the feeling this guy wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of it.

Great presentation, lovin it

Bug Sound people. Unreal has felt your plight.

Amazing

My question to people who use Unreal Engine is: Do you guys use mainly blueprints? Or do you guys actually code? If you guys use blueprints, doesn't it get messy?

Great showcase and very easy to understand

cool pres!!

I'd kill for a PC which runs unreal that smoothly 😂

Amazing presentation! This guy is really awesome!

YES

Unreal Engine 5 is a significant development in Computer graphics. It will finally take us into the realms of photo realism....

OMG Love this man. 😂 . Also Crazy powerful tips! Thank you so much!

16:30 that was some Houdini type stuff

Really great demonstration.

Thank you!!! Awesome features :)

Hope to see allot of UE5 games on Ps5 in the very near future!!

Awesome

Can you make crickets that chirp everywhere *except* near the player? That would be nice

So we can just say "hey... make a snow blueprint" ? Cool, I didn't know UE had voice recognition and AI. 🙂

26:52 How did you zoom the camera like that?!

Clap clap 👏

I'm very glad this guy really wanted to make sure we were aware of all this

gracias, es realmente bueno

Wer hat sich das Video auch 2 Mal angeschaut?

I'm not sure, but did he wanted me to be aware of something?

Chapters people. Chapters

Thx

Было бы здорово, если бы скидывали проекты для тестов

I'm having some frame hiccup with 5.2. Anyone know how to fix it?

Wicked cool

how do i match the uv tile repeats of my material?

I would like to have access to the Painting Scripting Blueprint to make veins in UE5.2 21:10

Nanite or FSR v2 for mobile?

How powerful is human brain?

Top

Where are these games?

John Hand style

Ore ore, great

Офигенский графон

Why no 4k upload?

okay im an Unreal Engine catholic.

PS6 era will be almost photorialistic!

Can’t wait to make some profiles!! Lets all report the lack of “color does not effect brightness settings” in the DMX layers to support@pangolin. Can’t wait to make a dmx profile with a proper dmx gobo rotate effect….

unity: "we have weta"

I love how they are giving us a glimpse into next-gen gaming: stutters and all...

Is the RC out? Do I need to build again.. Will I have use of my ram later? Why is the sky blue. Why is called "taking a dump" when afterwords you take nothing and only leave things? I wish mom were still alive.

chris

We need more destruction updates. Red Faction Guerrilla was almost 15 years ago made on a much worse engine and completely eclipses UE5.2

Will unreal engine support mesh shaders?.

Man, they’re just doing anything and everything they can to avoid bringing back tessellation. I won’t complain too much, this new Nanite displacement method is at least faster and easier than before, but it still lacks so many of the benefits of true tessellation. True tessellation happens at runtime, so not only are you not bound by real geo created by displacement map, you can modify your map at runtime too. Tessellation allows you to animate geo displacement or even just dial it in more carefully. Not to mention heightlerping - one of the most amazing UE features for env artists just completely useless in UE5, and unlike these Nanite displacement tools, I have seen absolutely nothing to answer for depreciated heightlerping workflows.

👍 1K

All I want is photorealistic VR games. There's not enough VR content with good graphics. Most of it is just boring cartoon graphics.

I appreciate his enthusiasm but all the upward inflexions and the redundant 'go ahead and's got really grating.

Dear Epic, I appreciate how much work you guys do on the upkeep and the impressive amount of rich content detailing the engine. But as someone who works in the engine all the time and tries to keep up with this stuff obsessively, it really is unfortunate for me to have to view this stuff in 1080p and rely on the commenters for time stamps. You should be giving us the 4K output and chapters. I’m not nitpicking - it would save a ton of people so so much time. Additionally, you guys need to turn off the grid lines in the background of the Blueprint editor for live streams so that it can compress it better. The compression algorithms have a hard time figuring out the motion vectors for the P frames and disabling the grid lines will help it significantly so that it only needs to move the nodes/text around. Somehow, you guys possess by far THE most cutting edge technology in the entire VFX and graphics fields - an engine that can literally render global illumination at 4K 60 FPS with enormous polycounts on consoles, and yet you can’t even get us a RU-vid video showing off the new features in 4K within a month of the announcement? How could you design an engine that literally renders out 4K in real-time, but you can’t handle selecting 4K from the options in your video editor??? As a customer and developer, I don’t understand why anyone thinks this is acceptable. Even the quality RU-vid gives in 4K is just barely acceptable, but 1080p? Are you smoking crack or do you have a legally blind person in charge of getting your content uploaded to RU-vid? This isn’t an elitist viewpoint…this is literally just what anyone who ACTUALLY USES the software would obviously agree with me on. Working in this industry literally REQUIRES that you have a keen eye for visual detail. Just take a look at how the developers who are selling content on your marketplace advertise their effects. Most of them use 4K uploads, and they’re not the guys literally in charge of the engine; they’re just selling $10 little particle effects. This really is ridiculously under the bar. I’m sick of squinting and staring at things for everything you guys upload. There isn’t a reasonable excuse this could ever be acceptable, especially not from the literal top country in the world when it comes to rendering quality 4K content in real-time. The irony is just too much to handle 😂 And not having chapters really sucks. I have to rely on comments and searching through the transcript auto generated by RU-vid to find things because you guys suck so much at documenting things in the actual documentation that I have to click through a billion RU-vid videos and desperately try to find things I know I saw before. It is a horrible experience trying to figure out how to use new features and it seems that these videos serve as the authority on a lot of topics, even years after these features are released sometimes, because you’ll make some docs, but they never actually detail things like these videos do. That’s why I’m so irate about these videos being so crap quality…you literally force us to go combing the desert for things and so much of the time, this ends up being the only place that thoroughly documented certain features, and on top of it all, you guys don’t even click the right damn button so that I can read what is on the screen?!

What a Geek..

So ends Hollywood.

i will never understand why Epic Games does not make games anymore (no fortnight doesnt count) they know everything about the engine , the games would be so awesome ..

This guy could sell me a Tesla… he looks like Elon Musk…

The best implementation of RT still belongs to the first game that used it ( Cyberpunk ). And it's not even a real one until now. UE5 is starting to look like the Marvel cinematic universe to me. Bland with the same darker tone. It's like modern gaming starting to look the same. We need *Path Tracing* level of lighting, not its immitation. AMD's top cards can barely do RT medium. So it's another 3-5 years I guess to really make a widespread difference.

Bring back per instance mesh painting ffs.