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CAE Taps Epic Games for Level-D Simulator Visuals

Plans call to upgrade full-flight simulators with the new Unreal Engine visuals

CAE 3D visuals with Epic Games Unreal Engine — © CAE

By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief

March 28, 2024

Simulator and training company CAE has integrated Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3D visuals to provide more realistic views for pilots training in its level-D full flight simulators. The first simulator to host the Prodigy image generator with Unreal Engine is an Airbus A320, although CAE said Prodigy will become standard on new and earlier-generation CAE level-D simulators.

“Prodigy improves visual simulation fidelity,” according to CAE, “by elevating training standards in all areas, including photo-realistic renderings and enhanced moving models, to provide a more immersive training experience.” This includes higher-resolution 3D content and more entities and lifeforms in virtual environments such as aircraft and moving ground vehicles in airports, models in motion such as marshalers guiding an aircraft to a position on the ramp, more realistic weather, detailed airport markings, reflections with physics-based rendering, and detailed night visuals.

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