Unreal Engine 5.6 brings significant upgrades that empower developers to create high-fidelity open worlds. Key enhancements include smoother 60 FPS gameplay, optimized Lumen global illumination, a new fast geometry streaming plugin, upgraded animation tools, and full in-engine MetaHuman creation.
Utterly Unplayable: Unreal Engine is one of the most popular middleware solutions for developing games and other interactive experiences, particularly on PC and Mac. Created by Epic Games, it is also notorious for stuttering and graphics performance issues. However, the developers are actively working to address these problems once and for all.
Unreal Engine 5.3 brings refinements geared towards improving 60 fps next-gen console games, adds new features, and introduces experimental ones like cinematic-quality volumetric rendering and a new skeletal editor.
Forward-looking: Epic Games first unveiled a tool to let developers perform facial capture with a consumer smartphone in 2020. The following year, it unveiled software for efficiently designing realistic human characters. Now, the company has combined the two technologies to hopefully lower the barrier of entry for building and animating highly detailed 3D scenes.