An amazing video demonstrates the capabilities of the updated Unity engine

For the upcoming Game Developers Conference, Unity platform developers have prepared a series of surprises in the form of a presentation of new computer graphics technologies. For their general demonstration, a great video was created, already available for viewing. The picture is completely created on the Unity engine, that is, 3D graphics of this level are rendered in real time.

The video reflects all the canonical moments of the demo graphics – a lot of moving elements, a smooth change of angle, a detailed demonstration of hair, skin and eyes, the effects of flame and weightlessness. Almost all of this is created with the help of new tools, including the high-resolution rendering pipeline (HDRP), Adaptive Probe Volumes and Screen Space Global Illumination (SSGI). Some of them are already in the Unity engine version 2021.2, but all the most interesting things will appear no earlier than the release of Unity 2022.1.

The imminent release of the Unity Digital Human 2.0 package was also announced — this will happen in a matter of months. It includes a new special tool Unity Hair, the work of which is perfectly visible in the clip. Hair drawing with its help takes place in three stages – detailed modeling, applying lighting effects, rendering each strand. This tool will be available on GitHub.