Unity Technologies has released a new video, showcasing a brand new next-gen tech demo for the Unity Engine. Titled Enemies, this tech demo expands on the work done for The Heretic, which featured Unity’s first realistic digital human.
Enemies features some brand new graphical features, such as Skin Attachment system on the GPU to allow for high-density meshes. It also features a better 4D pipeline, as well as more realistic eyes with caustics on the iris. Additionally, it packs a new skin shader. Not only that, but it sports a tension tech for blood flow simulation and wrinkle maps, eliminating the need for a facial rig for fine details.
This Next-Gen Tech Demo will be available at the Unity booth at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) on March 23-25. Attendees will be able to check it out as a standalone or running in the Unity Editor. Moreover, the Unity Demo team will release the Hair solution and an updated Digital Human Package in Q2 2022.
Now don’t expect upcoming games to look this good. According to the devs, the demo was running with 40fps in 4K on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX3090. And while the devs claimed that the demo can scale down on older hardware, I’m certain we won’t be getting this kind of graphics until PS5 and Xbox Series X are pushed to their limits at the end of this current-gen console life cycle.
Enjoy!
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Very impressive. Any info on the hardware used?
40fps in 4K on an NVIDIA RTX3090, though it can scale down on older hardware.
It’s great to see Unreal has competition. I’ve stuck with 1440p due to my eyesight not being what it once was, and even then not great, so I’d imagine very playable frame rates.
https://unity.com/demos/enemies
“PS5 and Xbox Series X are pushed to their limits”?
You mean PS5 Pro and Xbox X2 (next X?)?
Would it hurt for you to go outside once in a while lmao
Do you have to defend the honor of every average looking virtual broad and black shem@les? And the “go outside” insult is even more telling on your cluelesness, yeah, go outside and see dozens of average females just like the one in this tech demo, lol.
I couldn’t care less about them, and they’re not even real people lmao they’re just virtual characters.
But taking a video about demonstrating graphics tech and making it about the woman in the video is just sad.
“I couldn’t care less about them,”
Stop lying.
“and they’re not even real people lmao they’re just virtual characters.”
Hence my question, now stop lying and just answer it.
“But taking a video about demonstrating graphics tech and making it about the woman in the video is just sad.”
The tech demo is literally the engine rendering a middle age average woman, no one is “making it about” anything. Once again your bad faith shows whenever someone don’t enthusiastically show support about some design decision.
Once again your inability to understand more than the most basic concepts reveals an infantile level of intelligence.
Let me make this easy for you: the size of a virtual woman’s breasts has no bearing on how advanced the tech being demonstrated is.
The video is showcasing the woman to show how realistically Unity can render a person. It is not showcasing the woman to show her attractiveness or otherwise.
I’m having a hard time believing you can be articulate yet this stupid at the same time. Which leads me to believe you’re purposely feining idiocy in the hopes of trolling. Although that might be too generous.
“Let me make this easy for you: the size of a virtual woman’s breasts has no bearing on how advanced the tech being demonstrated is.”
Literally no one made this argument lmao. But thanks for the info, captain obvious.
“The video is showcasing the woman to show how realistically Unity can render a person. It is not showcasing the woman to show her attractiveness or otherwise.”
Should it be one or the other? People are criticizing an aesthetic choice, which you ignore for some cheap strawman. There is nothing stopping them from realistically rendering an attractive woman. Would Unity rendering an attractive woman detract from the tech demo? yes or no?
“I’m having a hard time believing you can be articulate yet this stupid at the same time. ”
I’m having a easy time believing i’m articulate and you are stupid.
Jesus watching your lack of critical reasoning skills unfold in real time is just embarrassing.
The aesthetic choice that the other clown was complaining about is completely irrelevant to the tech demo. That’s why I said go outside, because given that it is a TECH demo, why even comment on completely unrelated things.
The level of brainrot your putting forth is truly remarkable.
Lmao, here you go again moving the goalposts, since your pathetic strawman backfired on your face.
“The aesthetic choice that the other clown was complaining about is completely irrelevant to the tech demo.”
Irrelevant to who? Who are you to judge what is relevant or not? Seems relevant enough for bozos like you to go out of your way to insult critics…
Irrelevant to anyone who has a basic grasp of the English language.
When something is called a tech demo, it is implied that the thing being demonstrated is the technology. It’s a tech demo. Not a beauty pageant. Hence, comments about stuff unrelated to the tech are irrelevant.
The fact that this simple fact is difficult for you to grasp speaks wonders.
“Hence, comments about stuff unrelated to the tech are irrelevant.”
Ah yes, so the things show inside the tech demo, like the choice of woman, the scenery, the chessboard and pieces are all irrelevant, brilliant. Ok , if you want to be pedantic about it, we are discussing all the things inside the tech demo, not the technology involved, does that satisfy your autism? Is the aesthetic inside the tech demo still irrelevant, despite your 5 posts and counting related to that and not the tech features, including downvotes of critics?
The 5 posts are replies to your comments galaxybrain, they only exist because you responded. There’s no need for my comments to be about the tech demo if they were originally in response to what someone else said. Further evidence that you cannot grasp basic logical progression.
“the choice of woman, the scenery, the chessboard and pieces are all irrelevant”.
Yes, unless the things they chose to show do a poor job of showcasing the technology. Bigger breasts on the woman in the video aren’t going t showcase the tech any better.
Stop pretending the “critique” is anything worthwhile. It’s absolutely useless and says nothing productive about the tech. You know this, and you’re either feigning ignorance or you’re actually disabled enough to think that this is any sort of valuable dialogue.
The 5 posts are replies to your comments galaxybrain, they only exist because you responded. There’s no need for my comments to be about the tech demo if they were originally in response to what someone else said. Further evidence that you cannot grasp basic logical progression.
“the choice of woman, the scenery, the chessboard and pieces are all irrelevant”.
Yes, unless the things they chose to show do a poor job of showcasing the technology. Bigger breasts on the woman in the video aren’t going to showcase the tech any better.
Stop pretending the “critique” is anything worthwhile. It’s absolutely useless and says nothing productive about the tech. You know this, and you’re either feigning ignorance or you’re actually disabled enough to think that this is any sort of valuable dialogue.
“The 5 posts are replies to your comments (…)they only exist because you responded.”
Or you could have just ignored me and the original poster, because, you know… irrelevant stuff. And it is actually 4 replies to me (now 5) and 1 reply to the original poster above. 6 posts and counting…
“There’s no need for my comments to be about the tech demo if they were originally in response to what someone else said.”
Because you can’t help but be draw to these “irrelevant” issues, be it in a game, tech demo, movies, etc…
“Yes, unless the things they chose to show do a poor job of showcasing the technology. Bigger breasts on the woman in the video aren’t going to showcase the tech any better.”
Going back to your original strawman. What good is your graphics if your aesthetics are p!ss poor? This is a problem present in tech demos, games and movies, tech demos used to be cooler when games like the original Crysis where accused of being one. No one said the tech is bad because of crap aesthetics, but it may as well be if you can’t leverage the tech to create something that is actually worth watching/playing.
“Stop pretending the “critique” is anything worthwhile.”
How about YOU stop pretending to be detached and ironic? So i go back to my original question: Why do you have to defend the honor of every average looking virtual broad and black shem@les? Because it’s obvious these issues are anything but irrelevant to you.
“but it may as well be if you can’t leverage the tech to create something that is actually worth watching/playing.”
There we go, the nugget of idiocy I was hoping you would finally admit. The size of a virtual characters breasts is what makes something worth watching or playing to you.
You’re as sad as I thought. Go watch p*rn or something. Or maybe, like the other commenter, go outside and see what real people are like.
“The size of a virtual characters breasts is what makes something worth watching or playing to you.”
Strawman aside, do you have a problem with that? Off course you do since you have to insult everyone who makes light criticism of it, there is a clear pattern of it. The tech demo is just a middle age average woman making a monologue while holding a chess piece, not interested to watch 10 seconds of it, let alone 2 minutes. Their previous tech demo was more interesting, even tough it featured a mixed race male character.
“Go watch p*rn or something.”
What do you want to imply here? People can only demand attractive people at p*rn sites?
“go outside and see what real people are like.”
At this point, i have better chances of seeing actual attractive people in real life than in current western media and games. So if that’s the intent of your insult, fair enough, altought screw you aniway, since you are just agreeing by being contrarian. But if your intent is to hammer home the fact that virtual woman is more similar to their real life counterparts, then what is the point tough? Games are supposed to be escapism.
“At this point, i have better chances of finding actual attractive people in real life than in current western media and games. ”
? That was always the case doofus. Unless you’re actually satisfied by attractive people that only exist virtually.
I’m so glad developers don’t care what people like you think. Not like you would even support games even that you like anyways.
You literally contribute nothing.
Y’all just leech off of scene groups and complain that a virtual character isn’t to your liking.
Get a life.
“Unless you’re actually satisfied by attractive people that only exist virtually.”
I’m talking about representation doofus. You know what representation means, don’t you? seeing as you appear to be a huge advocate for it, insulting every poster who doesn’t go along with the agenda… So now that i got on your nerves, try not to lie this time and answer the question: Why do you have to defend the honor of every average looking virtual broad and black shem@les?
“I’m so glad developers don’t care what people like you think. Not like you would even support games even that you like anyways.”
They don’t care what brainwashed sheep think either. Just consume next product, shill and defend next product.
“Y’all just leech off of scene groups and complain that a virtual character isn’t to your liking.”
Yes. Cry about it.
“Cry about it.”
The only thing you do when a non-white virtual woman without curves shows up in a tech demo ?
Go outside. Grow up. You only have so much time on Earth.
Get a taste of what you’ve been missing.
I like how you give me good advice while defending terrible/subversive products. Don’t worry, i’ll keep going outside while you keep playing and shilling for garbage modern games in your mom’s basement.
” non-white virtual woman without curves”
Is this your fetish? I mean, you do defend it a lot… It’s already part of your identity.
“shilling for garbage modern games in your mom’s basement.”
Self-awareness at astonishingly low levels lmfao
I’d have to subscrbe to your insult first, but the shilling part is 100% true on your end.
I wish more developers would use different engines than just Unreal Engine.
Yes. It’s a shame to see CPR drop their Red Engine for UE5, but understandable due to what’s happened to the company. One of my complaints regarding GameWorks, back in the day, was how similar games were starting to look.
im no expert but i think the change to another Engine is not the Graphics devs can put out of it but the technical issues that they will have to solve during development. So it is not just about if Unreal looks better than RedEngine.
This might sound shallow for some reddit users, but they could’ve chosen a better model/character for their Unity Demo.
EDIT: reddit users confirmed lol
Perhaps some smoothed out featureless Barbie?
Revelant username
wow did you think about that all by yourself? That’s really funny man, you should try out stand-up comedy. People are gonna be laughing their a*s off at them witty jokes. id*ot
Why “featureless”? Perfection is not the absence of features. And a barbie like model beats an old hag 10 times out of 10.
You’re exaggerating as always. I ment something younger maybe and a tad more attractive.
Shallow indeed
reddit prude user confirmed. lmao
The truth is shallow sometimes…
it is a technically wise choice as she has very a unique facial structure as well as features (cheek bones, skin texture, lisp, gaze) which add to the realism and makes the character look far more believable
Cope. “Realism”= small breasts, average looking face, average everything. This is why games nowadays look so silly with unisex androginous enemies (which btw, is totally unrealistic, the irony)…
It’s the year 2022, only average looking females with masculine features need apply, Their previous demo was some mystery meat looking dude.
Looks good. The character model is very realistic.
all this tech to render some old bag lmao
Unity can now simulate photorealistic fetal alcohol syndrome.
The previous demo featured a mystery meat dude, but at least there was some cool visuals, not just a boring babushka holding a chess piece.
On a serious note: I am not impressed by tech demos that show small indoor spaces. You could easily bake the lighting for that room at a super high res but you can’t do that for a whole game. As long as we’re still talking about a GAME engine the setting of a tech demo should always be large scale.
Does unity still run like crap?
Scroll down to the Syberia pc performance article.
To be fair, Syberia 4 runs on Unity 2019, since game studios usually take what’s new at the start of development and then just stick to that version, because updating to a newer revision usually means a host of new bugs & regressions, therefore not worth the overall hassle of doing so.
Even still, this demo is taxing on a high end gpu, Don’t expect games to look like this for quite some time. I don’t think Unity has ever been great in terms of performance.
Dat feeling when character in Unity tech demo looks much better and more believable than Luke Skywanker in Disney’s Mandalorian.
Frikking fantastic. Good to see this engine makes progress!
Arkham Knight was one of the very few game that used/utilised UE (v3 on that time) very efficiently & even to date, that games looks very gorgeous in 4k ULTRA settings
It looks very good, hopefully some developers will finally use it.
A lot of devs already use it lmao.
HOOOLY SH***T that’s good graphics! That model is really leaving the uncanny valley behind!
The lighting on her, ridiculously detailed animations, same with skin texturing, clothes physics… Amazing!
Nice and all, but scripted tech demos mean nothing. We had this kinda shlt like 10 years ago and we still have plastic dolls on games today, so, I’m not buying that.
And yet again I am reminded we still have sh*t like devs using in-engine ultra low quality bink videos for cutscenes and instantly dating their game Instead of using real time cutscenes.. (Like tons of stuff on UE).
While this is obviously real time (TAA artifacts make that abundantly clear), it still looks great.
Escape from Tarkov, Pathologic 2, a bunch of 2d games… That’s all i remember.
And make her less geriatric.
The previous demo looked better.
yess now we can experience Diversity in even better qualty
Too bad that games don’t look nearly that good as the demo