Unity has shared a new tech demo that showcases what’s possible in the latest version of the Unity 6 Engine, called Time Ghost. This demo features spectacular visuals and graphics. So, be sure to check it out.
My only gripe with this tech demo is the character animations. For whatever reason, the humans run and walk like robots. Their movement does not feel natural. At least in my eyes. And no, these animations do not come close to what we’ve seen even in commercial triple-A games.
Other than that, the Time Ghost Tech Demo looks incredible. Unity 6 will also have a new hair rendering that looks amazing. The hair showcased here is by far the best I’ve seen. The environments also look stunning. Not only that but it appears Unity made major improvements to the LOD system. It’s not up to what UE5 does with Nanite. However, it’s still better than what we saw in Unity 5.
The developers said the demo uses the newest upgrades in HDRP, better lighting with APVs, Scenario Blending, and Smoke Lighting. It also runs faster thanks to improvements like the GPU Resident Drawer.
Not only that but Unity used machine learning for cloth deformation. The ML model was trained with 2,000 frames of vertex animation, something that reduced the data from 2.5GB to a 47MB model. This allows for deformations in just 0.8 ms per frame.
For those wondering, this tech demo is not available for download. My guess is that we might get it in the future. After all, Unity has released almost all of its previous tech demos. For instance, in 2022, the team released the Enemies Tech Demo. Then, in January 2020, Unity released the full-length version of its The Heretic tech demo. In March 2019 we go the Unity Engine Megacity tech demo. And in 2018 we got the Unity Engine ADAM Tech Demo.
Now while the tech demo looks top-notch, I’m not sure whether game devs will be able to come close to it. I mean, we haven’t even seen a Unity-powered game looking as good as the previous tech demos. Remember Heretic? Yeah, no Unity game looks as good as it. And that tech demo was from 2020.
Finally, Unity will launch Unity 6 on October 17th.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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