![]() ![]() The current scene is a stress test rather than a showcase of the engine.” Its creator notes right now the benchmark is "a stress test rather than a showcase of the engine." "This test will make your RTX 3090 sweat," he concludes. “In the future we plan to add photorealistic scenes showcasing the true graphical capabilities of the engine. It’s licensed for commercial use, although only in Unreal Engine-based projects.The current version includes a stylized scene of a fantasy island,” reveals in its official description. 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 ![]() The photorealistic 90-second short was then shaded, lit and rendered in Unreal Engine. 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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