A few days ago, Lorenzo Drago shared on their YouTube channel a new tech demo video that showcases an incredibly realistic station running in Unreal Engine 5 with Lumen. While the demo isn’t running in real-time, it still looks extremely impressive and extremely realistic as well, so much that the station looks like a real one at first glance.
- Is it real time? No, it’s a high-res render (around 7 frames per second). I can run it in real time (30-50 fps 1440p for daytime), but image quality is worse. It’s not particularly optimized anyway, you could get better performance with a little more work
- Specs? RTX 2080, Ryzen 7 3700x.
- Breakdown? I’m working on it, but it’ll probably be a post on my Artstation.
- How long did it take? About a month.
- How did you record the camera? I used a VR controller for motion tracking. Unreal Engine 5 is the latest version of the popular engine by Epic Games. More information on it can be found on its official website. Build bigger worlds Think big, really big. Unreal Engine 5 provides the tools and assets you need to create truly expansive worlds for your players, participants, and stakeholders to explore, using content that scales. Leverage game-changing fidelity Bring incredibly immersive and realistic interactive experiences to life with groundbreaking new features like Nanite and Lumen that provide a generational leap in visual fidelity, and enable worlds to be fully dynamic. Animate and model in context New artist-friendly animation authoring, retargeting, and runtime tools—together with a significantly expanded modeling toolset—reduce iteration and eliminate round-tripping, speeding up the creative process.
