Dagor Engine a new demo taking on UE5

Engine ready to take on Unreal 5 in Visuals — by War Thunder Gaijin Entertainment Game Engine

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Recently Gaijin Entertainment released a demo video to showcase a map running inside their Open sourced Dagor Engine from their unannounced game.

The same Map “East District” was also compiled to run on Unreal Engine 5. Looking at the visuals I feel that this is a high quality engine that can compete with Unreal 5. There is also another engine Nau Engine that forked parts of this so it’s yet to be seen.

Looking at the visuals I am impressed with the lighting Dago Engine produces it does look a little bit more realistic than the Unreal Engines Demos.

The engine was open sourced in 2023 ( News Link) but you require quite a bit of know how to compile and get it running. I do think that programmers and other devs might be interested to look into the tech.

Might take a look as an alternative to Unreal 5, was tinkering with O3DE and Flax. But O3DE seems like a research project and not ready from prime time. Flax while good is still not up to there with videos tutorials on making a game, and an asset store.