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We all know that Epic's upcoming Unreal Engine 4 is something to behold, but it's easy to take modern day visual effects for granted. At a glance we see things look good, but most of us don't comprehend exactly what is making various virtual worlds so convincing.Thankfully, Epic engineers Tim Elek and Zak Parrish have made a video detailing all the minute improvements in their upcoming engine that manifest themselves as a shockingly realistic simulated environment.
The following Inside Unreal video takes us through how certain visual effects like GPU particle simulation and collision, dynamic particle lights, and various high-res materials add to the experience. You probably never noticed the smoke coming out of expended ammo before in the Infiltrator real-time demo, but now that it's been pointed out, you can't not see it. I may not be a fan of the dreary grey militant sci-fi environments being shown off, but it's hard to argue that effects-wise this thing is damn impressive. Now let's see it with some more colour, I say!
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