
It will turn gray and the text above will go from “ON” to “ OFF”.

While the engine has just been made publicly available, it’s already been used a few times.


To give newcomers an idea of what they can achieve using the engine, Epic has published two sample projects - a starting game called Lyra and a showcase of how the city scene from The Matrix Awakens was built. A fully dynamic light studio, Lumen enables developers to adapt lighting and geometry, for example, if a door is opened or the sun’s angle changes.Īll of these tools will help developers to utilize Unreal Engine 5’s to render photorealistic visuals. Lumen is another key feature of the engine. It also has a new Virtual Shadow Map system to help process details while sticking to a real-time frame rate. In its release, the company called Unreal Engine 5 “the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool.” Alongside easy-to-use UI, the engine contains Nanite, a “virtualized micropolygon geometry system,” allowing developers to build worlds with meticulous geometric detail.
