The Unity game engine is used by many popular titles, including Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout and Cuphead, but their latest real-time ‘Lion’ tech demo shows what it’s capable of on PlayStation 5 hardware. This short clip takes advantage of Weta Digital’s Wig hair tool, which is capable of rendering millions of individual fur strands of the animals.
What you see here is exactly how it would look running at 30 fps at 4K on PlayStation 5 hardware. Aside from the Wig hair tool, this tech demo environment also features vegetation from SpeedTree, optimized for real-time to add some tufts of grass near the lions as well as for building the iconic shape of an African mopane in the horizon. Now we’re just waiting for Sony to release the official PlayStation 5 Slim console.
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Wig is a different way of working – it’s actually the fastest grooming tool that I’ve ever used. A high-quality hero groom – which would take me several months in another grooming package – is much faster to create in Wig. It takes just a couple of weeks, and some grooms go from weeks to create in other tools to only one or few days in Wig, and at far better quality levels and with greater artist controllability,” said Sara Hansen, Unity Technical Artist.
