talk about things so first of all let's get into the new features so the three big features that like are kind of like uh on everyone's consciousness when we think of unreal engine 5 especially like gamers as well like not game developers but gamers as well is things like lumen nanite or vsm which is the virtual shadow maps so like these are the things that when people think of unreal engine 5 that this is what you get with it and and it's going to make everything so much better okay so let's talk about what are they first of all

The first thing is Lumen.

So what is Lumen?

Lumen is a global illumination system in Unreal Engine 5.

And global illumination is kind of what it sounds like.

It's a bit confusing.

But it's basically the system that calculates how lights bounce around the world and all that kind of stuff, and how it calculates reflections and things like that.

That's what global illumination is.

Jesus.

That's what global illumination means in this context, okay?

And so Lumina is a new system for that, which provides better lighting and reflections and things like that.