Photorealistic Unreal Engine 5 demo is so good gamers think it’s real-life footage

Sometimes you see something built in Unreal Engine 5 and your first instinct is to think ‘Burn the witch’. Combine talented programmers with amazing software and magical things can be created.

YouTuber and creator,Leo Torres, has made a pact with some celestial being for this talent, surely. The quality of their latestUE5demo which shows a bamboo forest in the rain, is astonishing. The details captured are wondrous, particularly when we get closer looks at stonework and wooden pathways.

Unreal Engine 5 creators are wizards

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The demo is running in realtime in Unreal Engine 5.2, “with a combination of Quixel assets and textures, third-party assets, and custom assets modelled and textured in Blender. Nanite was used for the assets, Lumen for GI and reflections.”

Topics:Unreal Engine