I believe that all the friends who care about the game circle should know that Epic recently released the official version of Virtual Engine 5 and launched, and a series of new applications have also been released.

Especially, this new application called MetaHuman Animator can definitely be called a "maintenance nuclear bomb" in the current gaming market.

Because it solves a problem that has plagued game developers for a long time: modeling of game characters.

As we all know, it is definitely a big project to develop a game to model many characters. It requires 3D animation masters to build basic models bit by bit, and then constantly add details to it.

Especially the face part, it is simply a nightmare level difficulty.

There are a lot of muscles, tissues and bones that contain very complex details, such as skin pores, wrinkles and hair...

Even the most professional game studios, using some 4D capture technology, can take weeks or even months at least to create a fine face.

And the modeling of human faces is easy to see flaws by players, so after all, everyone stares at countless faces every day. Once there are any clues in the 3D modeled faces in the game, they will be captured by the player's eyes.

So whether the faces of the characters in the game are delicate has become one of the criteria for many players to judge the quality of a game. However, MetaHuman Animator tells us that in the future, maybe you can complete a fine face modeling in just two minutes!

The whole process only requires you to hold an iPhone and stand in front of the phone camera, and spend a few minutes recording a video of the character's face. . .

MetaHuman Animator can immediately capture a close-up of the character's face and scan out the general outline of the character in the video.

Use a little trick to capture facial expressions to accurately locate the active position of facial muscles such as eyes and mouth.

Finally let's take a look at the finished effect of character 3D face modeling generated in just two minutes using MetaHuman Animator~

Good guy, he has achieved a "pixel-level restoration" of the facial details of the character, including lips, eyes, facial muscles, and even light and shadow.The pronunciation and movement details are perfectly matched.

What you need is just a mobile phone and a PC. Compared with the device you used to want to build a 3D face modeling device, this is already the beggar version of the beggar version.

According to the original words of our company's 3D animation master: I will learn 3D character modeling at the beginning. After MetaHuman Animator is officially launched, another group of people will be unemployed.

And this is also a display of effects in the primary stage. If the technical strength is sufficient, you can use the facial data collected by MetaHuman Animator to directly transfer it to other faces, and then develop some more advanced styles and train them to generate some more top effects.

College colleagues in the company have used similar software and have achieved such results on the spot.

Of course, this is definitely a great thing for all players like Shichao~

After all, doing so greatly reduces the threshold for making games, which means that more and more excellent independent developers will be able to produce more advanced games in the future.

Not only that, there are two particularly significant enhancements in this update of Unreal Engine version 5.2. First of all, the first function is the real-time rendering of the image of the truck passing through the jungle by Unreal Engine. As the car moves, the light, shadows and the surrounding environment change at all times~

This effect is so strong. I believe it if you tell me that this is a promotional video of a certain 3A game!

You can even change the skin with one click of the car, and this detail is directly full. Whether it is the dust falling on the car or the reflection in the sun, it can be rendered in real time. Currently, this video has 4.41 million views on the oil pipe.

Another demonstration is the changes in the scene when Unreal Engine adjusts the surrounding environment in real time. At that time, the function of the press conference was demonstrated, and the audience was shocked.

How to say it, after Shichao read the content of this press conference about Unreal 5, this game engine is really strong!

After this Unreal 5.3 engine was officially updated, some big shots immediately followed up with this game engine and rendered a video of chasing cars for more than one minute. The boss used a 4090 graphics card to render it for 13 hours and could achieve such a delicate effect.

TheyThe press conference should write the slogan: Let every young person be able to make games at the press conference. Whether it is facial modeling, real-time rendering and scene display, it will reduce the threshold for developers to make games as much as possible.

This can be considered a great thing for game developers and players.