It’s licensed for commercial use, although only in Unreal Engine-based projects. The Meerkat Demo project file is compatible with Unreal Engine 4.26. System requirements and licence conditions The Unreal Engine project also includes the environment for the short, which was created using Megascans assets, plus the cameras, effects and audio. The project files, which are available to download for free, includes the two rigged and groomed CG creatures: both inside Unreal Engine, and the original Maya files and textures.īoth should hold up well for offline use: Molly the meerkat herself was groomed with 400,000 hair strands, while the eagle ended up with over 3.7 million strands for its feathers. You can see Weta’s art staff explaining how they tackled the project in the video above, and read Epic Games’ own fairly detailed making-of article on its blog.ĭownload the rigged and groomed CG creatures as Unreal Engine and Maya files According to Epic, since the launch of Unreal Engine 5 last spring, 77 percent of users have moved over to Unreal Engine 5, and its latest version, Unreal Engine 5.2, brings further optimizations and improvements, as well as several new features. The photorealistic 90-second short was then shaded, lit and rendered in Unreal Engine. The new demo showing some impressive visual details, physics, world-building and more. Weta Digital modelled the two CG creatures in Maya and created their fur and feathers in Peregrine Labs’ Yeti plugin, importing the grooms to Unreal Engine as Alembic files. The free download includes rigged and animated versions of the two characters – a meerkat and an eagle – plus the original Maya files, textures and materials.Ī charming photorealistic CG short created to test Unreal Engine’s new fur toolsĬreated to test the new hair and fur tools in Unreal Engine 4.26, ‘Meerkat’ shows a young meerkat surviving a brush with death at the claws of a hungry eagle. Temporal Super Resolution shaders compile with 16bit types enabled on D3D12 that supports Shader Model 6.Epic Games has released the project files for its new ‘Meerkat’ demo, along with two nice breakdowns showing how VFX studio Weta Digital used Unreal Engine 4.26’s hair and fur tools to create the characters. Runs on any video card that supports Shader Model 5, but the limit of 8UAVs per shader has performance implications.
789.ĭirectX 12 (with Shader Model 6.6 atomics), or Vulkan (VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64) Windows 10 version 2004 and 20H2 - The revision number should exceed or be equal to. Windows 10 version 1909 - The revision number should exceed or be equal to.
Video cards must be NVIDIA RTX-2000 series and higher, or AMD RX-6000 series and higherĪll newer version of Windows 10 (newer than version 1909.1350) and Windows 11 with support for DirectX 12 Agility SDK are supported. Video cards using DirectX 11 with support for Shader Model 5 Lumen Global Illumination and Reflections
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