Gaming tech can be used to walk through buildings before they’re even constructed
by Jess Weatherbed from The Verge - All Posts on (#64762)
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Epic Games is partnering with industry design software giant Autodesk to bring game-like graphics to architecture tools in order to visualize design concepts and plans as more immersive environments.
While Autodesk architecture software such as Revit is capable of creating 3D design plans, the partnership will introduce easy-to-use tools to designers, with features typically seen more often in game development, such as Unreal Engine, ray tracing, and a huge library of 3D assets to populate environments.
Anyone subscribed to Autodesk Revit (a building information modeling solution for architects) will now get free access to Epic Game's Twinmotion, an Unreal Engine-powered real-time visualization tool that's already being used within...