Technical requirements

As with the previous chapters, most of the things that you’ll need to tackle the recipes in this chapter are included within Unreal Engine 5. Just as before, we also make the Unreal Engine project available for download through the following link: https://packt.link/A6PL9

Something that we need to highlight is the need for special hardware in an upcoming recipe. One of the topics that we’ll cover deals with hardware ray tracing, a feature that requires a graphics card with ray tracing acceleration capabilities: any of the RTX series from Nvidia, the Radeon RX line from AMD, or the Arc category from Intel will do.

Despite that, we’ll also take a look at software ray tracing for those users that lack those hardware-accelerated features, so don’t worry if that’s you—we’ve got you covered!