Riley

Unreal Engine X - new stuff, demo updates, documentation, and more papers. github.com/mad-ben/UnrealEng… Please note: The default UE 5.8.4 remains fully preserved and accessible. 🔹 X:Renderer - Spectral Rendering release and updated documentation. 🔹 X:Renderer & X:VFX - Visibility Buffer + Artistic Fog Release and documentation updates for visibility buffer rendering and artistic fog. See rendering pipeline graph below. 🔹 World Composition - undeprecated, with tiled landscape import restored. 🔹 X:VFX - NvFlow cleanup, heat haze, support for different emitter types within a single actor, plus PSO and Advanced Shader Delivery updates. The updated Flow demo map is included. 🔹 X:Renderer - Tessellation Crack-free tessellation for skeletal meshes. 🔹 X:Renderer - Shading Model Selection Choose which shading models your project ships in the legacy rendering path, reducing shader permutations for models you don’t use. 🔹 X:DevOps - Insights and RE:Dox updates, refreshed documentation, and an Advanced Shader Delivery helper. 🔹 X:Editor - Knowledge Hub let's you browse, search, and read rendering and tech art papers directly inside UE5, with an integrated PDF viewer, local caching, and Google Drive sources. Documentation is updated, and 15 more PDFs have been added to the library. The demo now includes Filmic TU4x mode for Filmic SMAA, plus Intel Sponza for GI and fog testing. 🔸 My rendering pipeline I’m gradually building my own pipeline: XVisibilityBuffer + async XPostProcess + async XUpscaler, taking inspiration from DOOM: The Dark Ages. The basic shape is there, including post processing overlapping the N+1 frame. More targeted profiling in my own game scenes is still needed. Some recorded legacy/XRender results: • Legacy + UE fog + Epic post: 8.91 ms • Visibility buffer + volumetric light + async post: 7.38 ms • Visibility buffer + fog + async post + Filmic SMAA T2x: 8.35 ms • Visibility buffer + fog + async post + TU4x: 6.50 ms, rendering internally at 1358×764 ------------------------------------------------------------ 📚 All 15 newly added papers - accessible through Knowledge Hub inside UE5: Rendering: drive.google.com/drive/u/1/f… • Activision - Software VRS - SIGGRAPH 2020 • Activision - Tessellation in Call of Duty - GDC 2014 • AMD - Understanding Many-Light Rendering - CEDEC 2025 • Seasun - Mastering Massive World Building - GDC 2026 • Threshold - Variable Rate Shading with Visibility Buffer Rendering - SIGGRAPH 2024 • Ubisoft - Anvil Rendering - REAC 2025 • Ubisoft - Raytracing in Snowdrop - GDC 2024 • Ubisoft - Raytracing the World of Assassin’s Creed Shadows - SIGGRAPH 2025 • Ubisoft - Upgrading the Snowdrop Engine - GDC 2024 Tech Art: drive.google.com/drive/u/1/f… • Activision - Next Generation Post Processing in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare - SIGGRAPH 2014 • Activision - Scaling Content in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - GDC 2020 Small Research Papers: drive.google.com/drive/u/1/f… • Jimenez - Separable Subsurface Scattering - Computer Graphics Forum 2015 • NVIDIA - An Approximate Mie Scattering Function for Fog and Cloud Rendering - SIGGRAPH 2023 • NVIDIA - Decoupled Coverage Anti-Aliasing - HPG 2015 • NVIDIA - Fast, Flexible, Physically-Based Volumetric Light Scattering - GDC 2016 Updated demo: mega.nz/file/RNNRGbpY#GeSu3v… Updated documentation: unreal-engine-ace7bf.gitlab.… #UnrealEngine #UE5 #UnrealEngineX #Rendering #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #TechArt