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 ...

Developers are increasingly gravitating toward physically-based shading for high-end film and game production because it allows them to more easily author beautiful, realistic materials that hold up ...

Check out some of the screenshots of foliage with Unreal Engine 4.7, beautiful rendering of leaves and foliage, HDR texture support, in-editor animation editing, along with hundreds of optimizations ...

Epic Games has outlined performance gains from Nanite compute materials in Unreal Engine 5.4, highlighting the benefits of 1x1 shade binning over traditional quad shading. The technique, which avoids ...