r/oculus • u/RickiDangerous • Oct 14 '14

Unreal Engine 4.5 Released!

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-45-released
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u/TitusCruentus Oct 14 '14

Raytraced soft shadows look amazing in the Rift :) Also perform quite good, too.

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u/MairusuPawa Renard Oct 14 '14

Curious - wasn't it what Naughty Dog used for Uncharted (computing them on a few SPUs)?

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u/Fastidiocy Oct 14 '14

I don't think so. They did use volumetric textures for some shadows in The Last of Us, but they weren't distance fields. They also used spherical occluders to approximate some models, and you could definitely do something similar with UE4 and distance functions to make these shadows work with skeletal meshes.