The Matrix Awakens (An Unreal Engine 5 Experience) (Xbox Series X|S, PS5)

[Ruthwik_Rao]

@TavishHill

Weta worked on it too?! The team who famously just were bought by Unity? Huh.

This project has been in the works for over a year apparently, and the acquisition happened very recently, not that surprised tbh.

[TavishHill]

@CallMeCraig

I think most of these are artefacts of the procedural production process. Similar things can be noticed in other Houdini open worlds like Spiderman. But the player probably doesn’t notice it really because he is preoccupied with other stuff. But here its the central aspect of the demo.

Procedural generation of placement or procedural generation of the assets? Even if just the former, it should be easy enough to not have them overlap and not have their be copies in close proximity to the buildings being copied.

[pg2g]

@TavishHill

Procedural generation of placement or procedural generation of the assets? Even if just the former, it should be easy enough to not have them overlap and not have their be copies in close proximity to the buildings being copied.

It’s just a tech demo, does it really matter if the assets aren’t that unique?

[TavishHill]

@pg2g

It’s just a tech demo, does it really matter if the assets aren’t that unique?

Depends on the purpose of the demo. If the aim is showcase how small dev teams can make something photoreal AND compete with AAA teams, I would think placement would be something to target. But then again, it isn’t something they highlighted themselves either from a tech pov, so clearly it’s not something they are focused on atm.

[CallMeCraig]

@TavishHill

Procedural generation of placement or procedural generation of the assets? Even if just the former, it should be easy enough to not have them overlap and not have their be copies in close proximity to the buildings being copied.

Could be both. Asset generation for sure, their team was not big enough to build so many buildings. They used Houdini and afaik you can do all this stuff with it.