Unreal Engine 4.22 Released!

[John_Alcatraz]

@Tim_Hobson

I hear ya! However, keep in mind that this set of features is still Early Access and I didn’t want to over-promise on these features by including a release build only to have to change it.

If it’s listed there, it’s planned to be supported or at the very least investigated, which is the case with Virtual Reality. Some Ray Tracing features will probably be too expensive to work well with VR however some, like shadow support, may be good enough, but it’s something that has to be looked into and wasn’t within the scope of 4.22’s release.

I’m managing this set of docs, so I intend to update as things become more concrete because I do get how excited everyone is for these features and how much they are looking forward to implementing them in their own projects!

Thanks Tim! As I’m already spending half (or more) of my frame time in VR with shadows (both CSM and DF Shadows), I am definitely looking forward a lot to see how raytraced shadows perform in comparison.

I understand you don’t want to over-promise too much, but do you maybe have a list of priority regarding the order in which the currently unsupported engine features will get support for raytracing? Is VR relatively high up on that list, or not? It would just be nice to have a rough order to know what to expect, and what might make sense to add support for myself in the engine. I’m always reading through all commits in dev-rendering anyways, and I might just switch to dev-rendering or try to cherry pick it from there once the things I need are supported for raytracing in there, so which UE4 version it ends up in isn’t really that relevant to me.