November 27th, 2020 Video

Jace Talk: When there's a new feature in an engine doesn't mean you can use it

https://youtube.com/embed/0kmDHBWf640?autoplay=1&start=154&end=218

Topics

• Technology > Unreal Engine

Transcript

this is a misconception with engines and a good example on london 5 is that when when there's a new feature in an engine that doesn't mean you can use it, automatically especially if you've got an existing game that's been running on things before it doesn't necessarily mean you can utilize it and even if they say it just works it doesn't just work so like the there's big new things like in an engine 5 was it like lumen or something like that or lumen not only reacts to moving light sources but also changes in geometry if we upgrade to under engine 5 we don't just get that you know like you have to make you have to support it and that takes a lot of work especially when you've been working on a game that works a specific way for so long so we still have to go through those patch notes and see what can we take advantage of and we were able to take advantage of a lot of things and gain some performance upgrades, from that so today I'm going to talk to you about a few of those things just a couple things not everything that we get from this upgrade but just some of them and in what way that will impact you as a player of satisfactory so the first thing that I want to talk about is