Watch our tech talk ‘The Matrix Awakens: Creating a World’ from the State of Unreal 2022 livestream.

In this tech talk, you’ll find out about the inspiration behind the environment of ‘The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience’ demo and learn how Epic's Special Projects team leveraged UE5 to create the city in which the action takes place.

Topics include details of our modular procedural approach to building creation; Open World workflows (One File Per Actor, Data Layers, HLODs, level instancing); lookdev breakdowns of materials and texturing; and updates on improvements to Lumen, the UE5 global illumination and reflections system.

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