These include the likes of KPF (lighting analysis), Shop Architects (VR in construction / component assembly), Zaha Hadid Architects (VR), Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) (modelling within a city scale), City of Gothenburg (City Modelling), CallisonRTKL (mass VR analysis of shoppers’ movements and eyelines), ÅF Infrastructure (multi-hundred kilometre train track visualisation) Ramirent (Europe’s largest construction rental company) (safety training). In CGarchitect’s annual survey Unreal has come to dominate the Arch Viz landscape, even when separated from Twinmotion responses.Īt Build London 2018 and Build London 2019 several Unreal Engine customers presented their developments using the engine in their design processes. With customers now looking to create their own tools and bespoke BIM workflows, Unreal Engine has also become a popular choice as a start point, as it offers a capable stack of visualisation and big data integration tools, unencumbered by the weight of BIM.ĪEC Magazine regularaly sees projects from the likes of Gensler, HOK, Populous, Foster+Partners, ARUP, Jacobs, Buro Happold, SNC Lavalin which utillise Unreal Engine as part of the design process, from concept to completion. Unreal Engine is also becoming a common development platform as the foundation for new commercial products using its SDK (Software Development Kit), as well as a platform with which to integrate. While this is certainly the case, it’s not the whole story. The concentration on real-time, and ever higher quality output, as well as strategic acquisitions, has placed it in competition with dedicated arch viz rendering engines. To date, Unreal Engine has predominantly been seen as a visualisation tool for architectural viz or multi-platform immersive experiences.

This success helps fund the development of its real-time Unreal Engine in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) Epic Games is a giant in the entertainment sector: over 350 million gamers alone play Fortnite.

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