“Unreal Engine is at the point where we can do real-time particle simulation, real-time hair simulation, and real-time lighting directly within the engine. Nothing like it has been done at this scale and in a prime time capacity ever before,” Pack explains. Using Live Link removed the need for Alter Ego to write a dedicated plugin for the Vicon data packets, giving the team a free-flowing way to animate their skeletal meshes.īy the time production was complete, Silver Spoon and Lulu AR had helped create more than 80 performances, or 12 hours’ worth of content, all with no post-production required. Live Link is also used for facial animation via the dedicated Live Link Face app, which enables facial performances to be captured via an iPhone or iPad and rendered in real time in the engine. With virtually no latency, Unreal Engine is able to render high-quality animation captured from the actors onto the avatars in real time-as it happens. Grimes and her fellow judges in the Alter Ego trailer. In tandem, Silver Spoon was tapping Unreal Engine’s Live Link capabilities to stream data from over ten mocap instances into the avatars. This is how we were able to do 10 unique performances each day.” “When lighting directors can program virtual and real studio lights on one console, and the characters can be programmed on another, you run through rehearsals much faster. To be honest, I had no idea this game even existed until I saw the announcement of Alter. “In order to pull off a show like Alter Ego, you need Unreal Engine’s DMX capabilities this is the vocabulary and protocol we all speak and the only way to bring in a network competition show on schedule,” says Zinman. A demo of Alter Ego S on Switch will also be playable at Tokyo Game Show 2019, at the Indie Games Corner.
0 kommentar(er)
