Unreal Engine 4, the game engine from Epic Games that’s behind titles like EVE: Valkyrie and Street Fighter 5, has been used to create some amazing projects. New scenes from a UE user, however, might just be the most photorealistic.
User Koola posted a couple of screenshots and a short video from an environment he or she is working on to the Unreal Engine forums, and the results are unbelievable. One of the scenes illustrates a beach and tide pools, and another is of a lava flow. Both look like photographs at first glance, but were actually created entirely within the engine.
UE 4 has had several tech demos in the past showcasing what it’s capable of, including the “Infiltrator” tech demo. Recently, a team also put together a real-time demo of a Parisian apartment called Unreal Paris.
Koola also posted a short video of a flyby of the beach scene, showing off the light’s interaction with the environment and the fidelity of the reflections. You can watch the video of Koola’s scene below, which is running real-time in-engine:
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