"Star Citizen" is doing this already and looks better then this demo... Although its still early in its development 🙄

@@davidcapaz4135 was going to say that, SC not only have entires planets but an entire system(with another one expected to be released Q4 2020 hopefully)

Oh my god please forget about star wars I'm so sick of star wars fans

@@AverageAlien I'm sick of uncultured people

@@KartyMcFarty Lmfao imagine being such a conformist and you're a fan of something basically everyone else is a fan of, that's not cultured, that's just being normie

For now, we have No Man's Sky.

@@arkoidd9832 Honestly, Star Citizen does it better. Looks far better as well. And has more gameplay to boot. So... yeah.

@@kitsunelegend7976 did you see the newest version of no man's sky?

@@arkoidd9832 And Dual Universe!

I hope Epic does it in a way that wouldn't affect our current workflows. The last thing I want is my player sticking to the cube on my small planet because the cube is heavier than my planet. Also we would have universal coordinates along with the current global ones. This whole thing brings a lot of concern but if it can be done right, it would be "game changing".

My PC has a heart attack on Minecraft, it would go to Heaven 3 times trying to render this

I guess cloud computing will become more of a standard when it comes to massive games

@@freshpressedify Totally agree with that. Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 already did it, and i hope for the next gamew it will be the same.

A good PC isn't that expensive.

@@WalrusWinking Depends on where you live.

Microsoft flight simulator 2020 is 2 Petabytes

@@neekap5987 Probably uses internet

Since when COD is the biggest game?

Not to sure cod can’t speak as they are aquatic marine life

On the official Unreal Engine channel ;)

Ever read William Gibsons Cyberpunk novel called Pattern Recognition?

A magician never reveals his secrets ; )

@@axserwz5022 having good Twitter reach. Not that hard to find

Well, when you're in that world, things just reveal themselves to you :)

Yes, Unreal Engine is inferior to Star Citizen engine.

@@Patrick73787 it's Amazon Lumberyard Engine, former CryEngine, there is no Star Citizen Engine, so shut up please, because you have no clue what the unreal engine is capable of

@@AL15966 They call it Star Engine because it is so modified that it is barely recognizable.

@@AL15966 Yes they call it Star Engine

I think you might have missed the point. Yes, there are games that have had full planets before, such as No Man's Sky or Star Citizen or Flight Simulator. This isn't novel tech, and isn't what people are excited about. What the excitement is about is having an open-ended, flexible, performant, beautiful planet generation/rendering system built into Unreal, so devs can just drop it in and start work on their game's content without fuss or having to reinvent the wheel. Dealing with massive amounts of geometry at massive scales is always a hurdle in gamedev, and usually requires lots of optimizations to get things to work smoothly in the context of your gameplay. If Unreal has generalized that and provided it for free, that's a huge win.

yellow bees - Arguably, you still need to learn the in-and-outs of using Unreal's planet/environment system, but that's a tiny amount of effort compared to writing your own system. So yeah, I agree for effective purposes.

yellow bees - Agreed again. Build systems with native code; configure & wire them up with blueprints.

@@slippydouglas I tried to learn coding for the first time using c++ because "I could make an amazingly optimized piece of software" -me Yeah I still don't know how to code

@brethnew IMHO, programming is a high-skill trade that isn’t for everyone. There’s lots of promotion out there to “just learn to code!” but it’s not that simple- to be able to program effectively, one needs to learn the fundamentals and study the intricacies of specific technology systems and practice, practice, practice, not unlike other high-paid skilled fields such as mechanical engineering or medicine or law. It’s true that there are simpler programming languages that’ll allow you to learn how to make useful things quickly and easily. But what you gain in simplicity you lose in flexibility and performance. For simple tasks, that might be fine, but if you want to create something that pushes up to the capabilities of what computer systems are capable of in 2020, you need to actually understand how the computer works and how to have control over that stuff with a professional-capability programming language and APIs. And that’s not even touching on the art of software architecture, and how quickly you can code yourself into a corner if you know only how to code, not how you _should_ code. It’s a high-paid professional engineering field that takes years and years to get good at for a reason. It’s not magic. A good starting point for you might be a more friendly game coding environment like one using Python, or Unity using C# (Unity’s recommended design patterns skip over a lot of the complexity of C#). It won’t give you full power, but you’ll be able ti have some fun with it and learn as you go. I still, in 2020, recommend finding a good learn-to-code-language-X-for-game-engine-Y book to get started- most online tutorials just don’t have the step-by-step depth for you to actually understand what you’re doing. But don’t expect to “get gud” in 6 months. It can easily take years or a decade to reach a cutting-edge professional level of game dev or other programming aptitude.

@@slyack It doesn't get enough credit for what it is. In a game only a few gigabytes large, it procedurally generates trillions of stars and planets that are all in unique solar systems and galaxies. That, and its been out for more than a decade.

@@slyack Literally 99% of the game is procedurally generated. The other 1% is real world data. If it wasn't procedurally generated the game/simulator would probably be terabytes of data to download.

@@slyack Well, obviously. I'm just saying that it's amazing how many trillions of unique planets, each with their own moons, some gas giants, others small asteroids, you can encounter. You can get lost in Space Engine and keep going for hours.

Mialisus lmao exactly

Furmeli :)

this aged well

Isn't it actually a terrain object though and its the spherical shader from the marketplace making the illusion of a sphere from that terrain object?

@@outlander7370 No. At least as far as I know. What you see to be the "ground of the planet" is some procedural texture or mesh generated in GPU. It has no actual collidable geometry. And then, in the middle of that, there's a tiny square of actual terrain object which contains the actual playable area. That's why I every demo you only see them zooming into/out of a single specific tiny spot on the "surface" of the "planet", and they don't do any "planet-round" flybys. If you had an actual terrain object large enough to be sphere-mapped onto the whole diameter of the planet, you'd be back in "maybe in 5 years at the soonest" town, since with a terrain of that size, if you still want to keep all the possibility for detail that the terrain has in normal circumstances, that's a huge technical challenge spanning across all the game's systems - asset streaming, LOD, not only graphical, but also simulation-wise, managing which entities run when and if/how they interact, etc. Which isn't really even a thing you can have a proper generic solution for, since each game's needs would be different about what and how to simulate even when it's offscreen, on the other side of the planet, and such. This here in video is (again, as far as I know from having played around with the (current state of the) system) is literally just two things: 1. physically simulated atmosphere 2. some procgen gpu texture (or mesh generated via technique similar to tesselation) being bent by that spherical shader you're thinking of.

@@outlander7370 btw the MidnightSt comment above is by me, I just forgot to switch accounts when writing it.

@@shcode805 Ahhh okay that makes sense thanks for the info man much appreciated.

They want to surpass Star Citizen tech, but they won't because their engine isn't 64bit and they've never done proper R&D to make such thing happen, because big planetary MMOs is not the kind of stuff Epic Games believe in, and is also not the kind of stuff devs using their engine have the budget for. Remember, Unreal Engine is only attractive to so many devs because the initial cost is very low.

A few others have as well but all roughly in the same genre. But agree with the why , especially when many games have trouble filling larger open worlds. And just because you can render a planet does not mean it will run when you start adding more than just terrain, even worse when it's multiplayer as one of the biggest overheads is player interactions. However this being pursued might spill over into games that could use slighter larger zones like the latest Mechwarrior.

@@NorfolkTears or planetside 3 potentially thats a game that could use a small world but is able to have a massive battlefield

With this new feature in UE4, there are gonna be a lot of more games like No Man's Sky or Star Citizen, that even indie developers could use. So probably that answer the "Why" question.

@@yourallygod8261 Well a new engine full stop would help planetside the old one is showing its age. However unless they work out a way to reduce the high load of player interactions a bigger play field would still suffer many of the same issues.

@@NorfolkTears ye

Yeah, Unity is only viable if you want to make a single indie game you always wished to create.

Star citizen needs to exist to have competition

@@TroublingMink59Meh. I still respect what they're trying to do tho

@@TroublingMink59 It's in early alpha and playable. I've been having a lot of fun exploring an entire star system with planets the size of our moon. It's fair to say it exists lol.

I’m more hoping that it’ll put a fire under Frontier Developments to finally implement atmospherics in Elite Dangerous

@@Ebalosus Hopefully!

Get some help be humble :)

Yet its still not released :T

@@yourallygod8261 You can play it right now and the planet rendering is more impressive than any demo game out there.

@@DeCapitanOG because its has had years of being worked on with the unreal engine which it originally wasn't the smartest option to make a multiplayer space game about :T which makes me think did unreal engine do this or are they just finally implenting how star citizen has been workin on it even tho i wonder how much they are actually done to making the game its been a while since i have checked in on its progress thinking it would die because of overpriced ships :T

@@yourallygod8261 Yes there are reasons SC is better. umm good point.

yeah there hasnt been a great superman game yet. probably need planets and like cities everywhere.

It's this time that my pc will burn into flames.

All resources available in unlimited quantities for free. ;)

Yes womans water*

SC can do 1:1 scale planet too but these are too big for gameplay desing , but the result right now with planets 1:6 are very amazing looks and feel like a real size planets

Yes, and it does it better

No, we dont have planets and I am actually very surprised that nobody here seems to know that. Also, this is not 4.26 but was already implemented with 4.25 and does NOT simulate planets in any way but only provides atmosherical rendering can make your planet seem round from higher up. No planets, no new gravity, "only" (way) better atmospherical rendering.

Til W. Damn

I mean, both engines are very powerful, the difference is, you need waaaaay more work to make such beautiful stuff in Unity than in Unreal Engine.

Yea that made me think if i should not try and learn some unreal.

It's probably just a tiled noise texture.

What about small planets for a simple arcade game? (think of a Super Mario Galaxy clone).

Well you always can do this. With C++ or Blueprint but that goes for the whole new atmosphere system. Everything was possible before but now they built those functionalities as easy sliders into the engine. They have added nothing regarding actual planets to make them easier to set up. Mario galaxy as far as I know doesnt simulate any gravityfields but instead simply rotates it to the closest planet... Thats not all that hard to set up yourself with only blueprint if you wish. But this update wont help you for that because its only for atmosphere

Unreal Engine is inferior to Star Citizen engine.

@@Patrick73787 Star citizen runs on Cryengine

@@brando4848 Star Citizen runs on StarEngine, which is a 64bit engine, unlike inferior engines like Unreal Engine and CryEngine that still run on 32bit

@@Patrick73787 Star Engine is CIG'S Modified version of Cryengine

@@brando4848 Which is still better. Furthermore, what you saw in that demo wasn't a real planet. Just an sphere with a shader. That planet had 0 collision, and you wouldn't be able to landscape it.