TweakTown

Unreal Engine updated with incredibly 'realistic foliage lighting'

One of the stand out features with Unreal Engine 4.7 is the addition of the new Foliage Shading Model, which allows for light to be transmitted through grass, leaves, paper, and other materials. The ...
DualShockers

Unreal Engine 4: Screenshot Comparison Shows Massive Improvement in Lighting from Unreal Engine 3

Hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old ...
TweakTown

Unreal Engine 5.7 preview now out with production-ready Procedural Content Generation Framework

Epic Games says that one of the big features inside of Unreal Engine 5.7 is Procedural Content Generation Framework (PCG) in ...
Ars Technica

Gorgeous Unreal Engine 4 brings direct programming, indirect lighting

"I light my level by dropping a sun in." That statement from Epic Games' Senior Technical Artist and Level Designer Alan Willard doesn't seem like such a big deal on the surface. To a non-programmer, ...
MCV UK

Unreal Engine 4.7 adds foliage lighting and automatic asset importing

Unreal Engine users can now download version 4.7 of the powerful game engine, which adds a variety of new visual and functional features. Highlights include realistic foliage lighting for a system ...
Ars Technica

How Epic got such amazing Unreal Engine 5 results on next-gen consoles

After last week's somewhat blasé showcase of in-development Xbox Series X software, our expectations for the coming generation of new game consoles were somewhat tempered. But those expectations got a ...