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Brais Brenlla Ramos
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Brais Brenlla Ramos

Brais Brenlla Ramos is a passionate Architect, 3D artist, Unreal Engine 4 developer and first-time author based between A Corua and his place of work in London, UK. His passion for all things 3D-related dates back to when he was playing games as a child, experiences that fuelled his later studies in architecture and computer animation. His entrance into the professional 3D world happened at the same time as his studies were finishing, with initial projects undertaken in the field of architectural visualization for different studios. Since then, he's worked on many different 3D modeling and app development projects, first as a team member, and later as the Unreal Engine 4 lead developer at a company called AccuCities, based in London.
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Using the forward shading renderer for VR

Working with VR gives artists and designers a lot of interesting challenges. Even though VR experiences typically involve high-powered computers, we can still encounter performance issues due to the large screen size required. Unreal Engine 5 contains a different rendering system, called Forward Rendering, which will give us a good performance boost at the expense of removing certain graphical features. In this recipe, we’ll explore how to enable this alternative rendering method in our projects.

Getting ready

In order to play your game in VR, you will need to have a VR headset that is plugged in and ready to be used. Unreal gives us the option to check out our levels in VR mode once it detects a connected headset, which occurs when the VR preview button is clicked, located within the Change Play Mode and Settings area of the editor – we’ll see exactly where once we start the recipe. If the option is still grayed...

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Published in: May 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837633081

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Brais Brenlla Ramos

Brais Brenlla Ramos is a passionate Architect, 3D artist, Unreal Engine 4 developer and first-time author based between A Corua and his place of work in London, UK. His passion for all things 3D-related dates back to when he was playing games as a child, experiences that fuelled his later studies in architecture and computer animation. His entrance into the professional 3D world happened at the same time as his studies were finishing, with initial projects undertaken in the field of architectural visualization for different studios. Since then, he's worked on many different 3D modeling and app development projects, first as a team member, and later as the Unreal Engine 4 lead developer at a company called AccuCities, based in London.
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