Nanite Foliage and Translucency

October 7, 2025 matt Comments 0 Comment

Dylan Browne demonstrates a 321 billion-polygon forest on UE5 (77,376 instances of 20 million poly trees). Nanite Foliage leverages a voxel-based method to achieve dense forests. The Witcher 4 uses it and it about to be debut in the upcoming release of Unreal Engine 5.

First bits of Nanite Foliage in UE5-Main today including Voxel distance representations, some quick testing the perf increase in my scene is insane, 2x fps and looks much more dense too!

62fps -> 119fps

77,376 20 milllion poly trees #UE5 #UnrealEngine #NaniteFoliage pic.twitter.com/Zwu0vMXEd3
— Dylan Browne (@DylserX) July 15, 2025

He also did a fascinating ray-traced translucency experiment

The new Ray-Traced Translucency in #UnrealEngine 5.6 (UE5-Main) is really something! Combined here with Substrate materials #RayTracing #Rendering #RealTime #GameDev #Lighting #VFX pic.twitter.com/9RXmKST4L8
— Dylan Browne (@DylserX) March 14, 2025

Links:

https://80.lv/articles/unreal-engine-5-6-s-ray-traced-translucency-with-substrate-materials
https://80.lv/articles/get-a-glimpse-of-nanite-foliage-with-voxel-representation-in-ue5-7

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