Unreal Engine 5.8 Paves Way for Better Optimization in UE6 (opens in new tab)

Unreal Engine 5.8 has just been announced by Epic Games as the last major update to Unreal Engine 5 before the launch of Unreal Engine 6. While there are a number of changes present in UE 5.8, including streamlined texturing and landscape creation, and sandboxes for isolated experimentation, to name but a few, two new headline features are coming to the real-time rendering pipeline with UE 5.8. The first it Lumen lite, a new version of Lumen dynamic global illumination specifically designed t...