One of my top talking points when campaigning for a new game console was graphics quality. “It looks so real,” I’d profess to my parents regarding the next-gen console I wanted for my birthday or Christmas. In actuality, those 16-bit games looked nothing like real life. Neither did their 32-bit and 64-bit successors, or anything that has come since. They were all simply the best we had seen up to that point and with a bit of imagination and good storytelling, one could effectively suspend belief and have fun. Epic’s Unreal Engine 5, however, could be a paradigm shift. Have a look at this clip from YouTube user subjectn. At first glance, it looks to be little more than an empty train station filmed on a smartphone camera. Most won’t spot anything out of the ordinary until just over a minute in when day suddenly turns to night and the “videographer” whips out a flashlight. Incredibly enough, the entire scene was generated using Unreal Engine 5. It is based on a real-life train station in Toyama, Japan, and was lit with Lumen, a fully dynamic real-time global illumination solution. Nanite, the virtualized micro polygon geometry system in UE5, was not utilized in the project. Found is a TechSpot feature where we share clever, funny or otherwise interesting stuff from around the web.
