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I see a lot of potential for Unreal Engine simply because of their ecosystem. Game assets will soon dominate the costs of any game. That means a full asset stor
by fxtentacle 3y ago
I see a lot of potential for Unreal Engine simply because of their ecosystem. Game assets will soon dominate the costs of any game. That means a full asset store and a few AI tools will be the deciding factor between "too expensive" and "highly profitable" games.
- echelon 3y ago> Game assets will soon dominate the costs of any game. I'm not even so sure! I don't know which costs will trend towards zero. If I had to make another prediction, though, it's that all the centuries of engineering that went into Unreal Engine will wind up being revealed as just solving for a local optima. Signs point to neural rendering and neural engines possibly being a thing, and if so, everything we've built so far is just legacy tech.
- fxtentacle 3y agoI would expect that neural rendering could be integrated into UE5 while still keeping the amazing tools ecosystem. And, accordingly, I would expect them to remain market leader anyway. Also, looking back, Epic has been incredibly fast at integrating other bleeding edge research results into their engine, like Nanite geometry-as-texture and Lumen global illumination. And when it comes to training neural rendering pipelines, their Quixel dataset will surely be extremely helpful.