UE3 - General Samaritan Demo - DX 11 (UE 3.5)

[cosmix]

Epic Games shows technology behind the DirectX 11 Unreal Engine Samaritan Demo at GDC 2011.

Description: This talk will focus on next generation graphics effects developed for Epic's GDC 2011 Samaritan demo. Epic engineers, in collaboration with NVIDIA, extended the engine to support Direct3D 11 and add displacement mapping. This talk will explain the bumps encountered and overcome along the way, along with extensive details on how displacement mapping was exploited in the demo. The talk will also explain in detail the many other new graphical features highlighted in the demo: screen space surface scattering for skin rendering, deferred rendering with MSAA, short hair rendering, blurry reflections based on ray-casting an approximate scene, and high quality depth of field featuring custom bokeh.

http://schedule.gdconf.com/session/12449

 

[cosmix]

GDC 2011 update

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[Sjosz]

I'll scatter your sub surfaces.

 

[cosmix]

Demo gets shakycammed

[M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3XeCHywNYM&feature=player_embedded[/M]

 

[Cr4zyB4st4rd]

http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showpost.php?p=2499318&postcount=26
Keep up

 

[cosmix]

Dynamic Tessellation & Displacement

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15MB version

 

[cosmix]

Samaritan HD video released

 

[Raynor.Z]

Any way to download this thing without logging in?

 

[cosmix]

Any way to download this thing without logging in?

You can also watch an official version at YouTube but GameTrailers have better quality. It's worth the login!
[M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgS67BwPfFY&feature=channel_video_title[/M]

 

[cosmix]

DirectX 11 is now supported in UDK

With Samaritan Demo these new technical additions are now available in the March build of UDK.

Important DirectX features now shipping with UDK include:

• Tessellation and displacement;
• Geometry shaders;
• Multisampled textures
• Shader Model 5.

High-end rendering features include:

• Image-based reflections that allow surfaces of any shape to reflect an approximate version of scenes, with varying glossiness across surfaces, anisotropic HDR highlights and anti-aliasing;
• Subsurface scattering (SSS) that simulates the light that scatters inside semi-translucent materials, making character skin come alive;
• Anti-aliased masked materials that super sample the edges of masked and alpha-tested materials, making character hair more look realistic than ever before;
• Deferred rendering with MSAA support;
• Bokeh depth of field providing close to film-quality DOF, with artist-controllable Bokeh; and
• High-quality dynamic shadows from many lights on the environment, such as shadows for point lights and other light sources.

NVIDIA’s APEX technology has also been integrated into the engine and ships with UDK.


To enable the DX11 renderer in the editor:

• View -> Preferences -> Enable DirectX 11 Rendering

 

[[SAS]Solid Snake]

It ain't Unreal 3.5. It's just Unreal Engine 3. This .5 or .x bull**** needs to stop.

 

[cosmix]

It ain't Unreal 3.5. It's just Unreal Engine 3. This .5 or .x bull**** needs to stop.

You are totally right man. This .5 bull**** is not Unreal Engine 3.5! It’s still definitely Unreal Engine 3! Mea culpa...

To clarify this mistake I want to say that Mr. Mark Rein added during the GDC, however, that if this were to be given a number, it would be Unreal Engine 3.975.
http://mediakick.org/2011/03/03/epic-reveal-unreal-3-975-at-gdc/
...and as we all know Mark Rein sometimes overstate a little I round this to 3.5.

Maybe we can imagine that this release is a very close step to v4?

 

[cosmix]

Unreal Engine 3 Feature Trailer HD

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[Spiney]

Maybe we can imagine that this release is a very close step to v4?

I think Sweeney wants 4 to use a software renderer and aimed at highly parallel cpu architectures. He's been preaching the demise of the graphics API for several years now.
So I think v3 will be around for a couple of years still.

 

[Bi()ha2arD]

V4 prolly won't be out until the next gen of consoles.

 

[cosmix]

You might be right. I really want to know when these next-gen consoles will be out. After the PS3 hack this could be earlier then we expected. There is also a big market on the iPhone and other mobile platforms.

 

[cosmix]

Samaritan demo is playable...
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/312192/news/epics-incredible-samaritan-demo-is-playable-to-an-extent/

 

[ambershee]

It's not 'playable', it just runs at real time. The demo is missing all kinds of important stuff, like properly put together collision, and most meshes have only the polygons that were visible (so there are lots of holes, open edges etc).

 

[cosmix]

It's not 'playable', it just runs at real time.

This is exactly what the article says.

 

[ambershee]

Ergo it's not 'playable'?