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Unreal Engine 虚幻引擎
虚幻引擎是一个面向PC、Xbox 360、iOS和PlayStation 3的完整开发框架，其中提供了大量核心技术、内容创建工具以及支持基础设施内容。
Unreal Engine 4.11 Preview 1 发布，主要更新如下：
Rendering Updates:
New physically based shading model for realistic hair based on the latest research from film. It models 2 specular lobes, transmission, and scattering.
New physically based shading model for eyes.
New physically based shading model for cloth. This combines the standard shading model with a layer of velvet fibers. This layer simulates fuzz and fabrics.
Capsule Shadows - We now have support for very soft indirect shadows cast by a capsule representation of the character
Lightmass Portals - Skylight quality indoors can be massively improved by setting up Portal actors over openings. Portals tell Lightmass where to look for incoming lighting, they don’t actually emit light themselves. Portals are best used covering small openings that are important to the final lighting. Placing large Portals all over the level will dramatically increase build times.
Per-vertex translucency lighting - There are two new translucency lighting modes available in the material editor which compute lighting per-vertex. PerVertex lighting modes use half as many shader instructions and texture lookups.
We now have support for 3 lighting channels. You can set which channels a PrimitiveComponent or a LightComponent is in.
We’ve integrated Intel's Embree ray tracing library into Lightmass and we got a huge lighting build speedup from it, as the majority of lighting build time goes toward tracing rays to figure out how light is bouncing.
We’ve integrated updates to the D3D12 RHI to allow better CPU utilization while generating rendering commands in parallel.
Improved quality and performance of the SubsurfaceScatteringProfile shading model.
Circle Depth of Field post process - New Material Functions to render small particles with out of focus.
Materials using separate translucency can now be rendered at a lower resolution, which can be useful to improve GPU performance for fillrate and overdraw heavy geometry (for example particle effects).
The resolution is controlled via a console variable, r.SeparateTranslucencyScreenPercentage, which expresses separate translucency as a percentage of current screen resolution.
Static mesh LOD transitions now supporting dithering.
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虚幻引擎各方面功能的设计思想都是使得内容创建和编程变得更方便，其设计目标是赋予美工人员 及游戏设计人员尽可能多的控制权来开发可视化环境中的资源，最小化程序员的协助，同时为程序员提供一个高度模块化的、可升级的、可扩展的架构，以便可以开 发、测试及发行各种类型的游戏。
虚幻引擎通过Epic Games的集成合作伙伴计划集成了大量领先的中间件技术。虚幻引擎的高度成熟的工具、支持浩大世界的功能及多处理器性能正在进行了不断的优化。虚幻引擎高级工具集是专门为加速程序员构建非常复杂的、次时代内容而设计的。