We're getting closer to the production-ready release.
In case you've been waiting for a production-ready release of Unreal Engine 5, the engine reached the next milestone and it is now available in Preview.
Since the launch of the early access version, Fortnite shifted Unreal Engine 5, plus the team developed the technical demo The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience with the code. These and other projects helped make Unreal Engine 5 more production-ready, stable and optimized.
"We are currently working towards the final shipping version, with all features that we intend to include now ready for testing," wrote Epic Games. "In addition to many improvements to previously exposed tools like Nanite, Lumen, One File Per Actor, World Partition, and MetaSounds, you’ll find some exciting new animation tools, groundwork support for Large World Coordinates, and much more. We’ll get into a bit more detail later on in this post."
Please note that Preview releases still have instabilities and other issues, so they should not be used for production. Below you can check out some of the updates.
Nanite:
Lumen:
Virtual shadow maps:
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