Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
A cinematic animation of a jungle waterfall in an indoor terrarium, rendered in real-time using Unreal Engine 5. I really enjoyed making that rain garden from my previous video – and I learned a lot about UE5 and the little quirks and tricks with Lumen and Nanite. I also feel that I’ve gotten a more solid grasp of Niagara and what it’s capable of as a particle system...
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This jungle scene was definitely a bit of a different vibe – a lot darker and moodier with the lighting setup – a little heavier almost...
A combination of Blender modelled + textured meshes, Quixel Megascans and free online models were used – along with some photoscans from Ian Hubert’s pateron. A Blender mantaflow FLIP simulation for the waterfall – exported out as an Alembic – although shading for translucency is a bit tricky with such non-standard fast moving meshes – there’s a bit more effort required to get a good result.
The ground water was done in Blender using dynamic paint and a particle system to create an animated displacement. This was then bought into UE5 using the Alembic geometry cache export and simulated within sequencer. This allowed for a relatively lightweight, stable and controllable water simulation that displaced over the rocks for a more realistic result – not just a flipbook animation here.
The rain was a simple Niagara particle system with a masked texture of a raindrop created in Blender and rendered with a cubemap of the scene – this allowed for cheaper reflections and less flickering with the fast moving objects. The splashes were Niagara sprites using the same texture set to randomly generate at the impact zone.
All that said, this is still the Early Access – and there are plenty of bugs and issues that cropped up – most notably the flickering reflections and inconstancies with translucency with Lumen – something that should be fixed with the final release.
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A cinematic animation of a jungle waterfall in an indoor terrarium, rendered in real-time using Unreal Engine 5. I really enjoyed making that rain garden from my previous video – and I learned a lot about UE5 and the little quirks and tricks with Lumen and Nanite. I also feel that I’ve gotten a more solid grasp of Niagara and what it’s capable of as a particle system...
If you enjoy my content and want to help support the channel, you can buy me a coffee! ko-fi.com/liontowers3d
This jungle scene was definitely a bit of a different vibe – a lot darker and moodier with the lighting setup – a little heavier almost...
A combination of Blender modelled + textured meshes, Quixel Megascans and free online models were used – along with some photoscans from Ian Hubert’s pateron. A Blender mantaflow FLIP simulation for the waterfall – exported out as an Alembic – although shading for translucency is a bit tricky with such non-standard fast moving meshes – there’s a bit more effort required to get a good result.
The ground water was done in Blender using dynamic paint and a particle system to create an animated displacement. This was then bought into UE5 using the Alembic geometry cache export and simulated within sequencer. This allowed for a relatively lightweight, stable and controllable water simulation that displaced over the rocks for a more realistic result – not just a flipbook animation here.
The rain was a simple Niagara particle system with a masked texture of a raindrop created in Blender and rendered with a cubemap of the scene – this allowed for cheaper reflections and less flickering with the fast moving objects. The splashes were Niagara sprites using the same texture set to randomly generate at the impact zone.
All that said, this is still the Early Access – and there are plenty of bugs and issues that cropped up – most notably the flickering reflections and inconstancies with translucency with Lumen – something that should be fixed with the final release.
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![The True Scale of the Forgotten Vale | Skyrim in UNREAL ENGINE 5! [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kgsqbK3Ngq0/mqdefault.jpg "The True Scale of the Forgotten Vale | Skyrim in UNREAL ENGINE 5! [4K]
Part of an ongoing project to visualise a more realistic and lore-accurate size to Tamriels cities, removed from gameplay and technical restrictions. So here’s the snowy, glacial Forgotten Vale, from the Dawnguard DLC – now with sixteen times the detail!
This is me going back through the drafts and finishing some videos that I started ages ago, but eventually abandoned because they were either too small or too obscure and didn’t make sense to do a video on each – but some were kinda interesting and (surprisingly) I did get a few specific requests to do some of these, so here you go!
Rendered out in Unreal Engine 5.7.2 on an RTX 3090. Using a mix of third-party models and custom assets modelled and textured in Blender. Nanite was used for all models and foliage; Lumen for global illumination and reflections. TSR was used for anti-aliasing.
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Soundtrack: ‘Lost Empire’ – David Celeste.
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![The True Size of Windhelm: Skyrim in UNREAL ENGINE 5! [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lStegIkn0PY/mqdefault.jpg "The True Size of Windhelm: Skyrim in UNREAL ENGINE 5! [4K]
And so we get to the City of Kings: Windhelm – the oldest city in Skyrim! Also it’s been about two years since I first started this project – and I just want to thank everyone who’s watched these videos, upvoted, commented and subscribed – it means a lot to me!
Part of an ongoing project to visualise a more realistic and lore-accurate scale to Tamriel’s cities – so here’s Windhelm – now with sixteen times the detail! The purpose of this project was to get a large-scale concept of what a city of this size would really be like in real life, removed from gameplay, story and technical limitations.
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Rendered out in Unreal Engine 5.4 on a 3090. Using a mix of third-party models and custom assets modelled in Blender, textured in Mixer. Nanite was used for all models and foliage; Lumen for global illumination and reflections.
Please NOTE: This is a FANMADE cinematic lore visualisation for the Elder Scrolls. It is NOT a mod!
Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound.
Soundtrack: ‘Oh the Sky’ - Helmut Schenker.
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![I Built Photorealistic Terrariums in UNREAL ENGINE 5! | Forest in a Bottle [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/liehUTu0HEE/mqdefault.jpg "I Built Photorealistic Terrariums in UNREAL ENGINE 5! | Forest in a Bottle [4K]
Mossy rain gardens and smooth jazz. Running real-time in Unreal Engine 5.
This compiles all the videos from the Forest in a Bottle series so far – this was a type of (literal) test-bench scene I was doing back in the Early Access and early release phases of Unreal Engine 5 a few years ago – mostly with the aim of testing out the different new features that UE5 had to offer and then later on, figuring out what had changed or which bugs had been fixed which each new version of the engine. Also it was just fun!
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Rendered out in Unreal Engine 5 Early Access – 5.4 on a GTX 1060, RTX 3060/3090. Using a mix of third-party models and custom assets modelled and textured in Blender. Fluid simulations were done in Blender and imported into UE via alembics. Nanite was used for models and foliage; Lumen for global illumination and reflections. Translucency is a mix of old-school raster, RTX translucency and the new Lumen translucency. Anti Aliasing done with DLAA and TSR.
Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound. (For the individual tracks, please see the original videos.)
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![Utopia on the Ocean | UNREAL ENGINE 5 [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/maAeJ-qaEf8/mqdefault.jpg "Utopia on the Ocean | UNREAL ENGINE 5 [4K]
Trying out a little serene, sci-fi ocean-scape, with a cheeky planet in the background… Also feat. your friendly neighbourhood Kaiju turtle.
Rendered in Unreal Engine 5.1.1. Lumen used for GI, RTX for reflections. Custom sky-dome and planet shaders. Rendered using a 3060ti.
Big thanks to @KitBash3D for letting me play with their ‘Oasis’ Kit a little early – had a blast!
_Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound._
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![The (Lore-Accurate) Towns of Skyrim in UNREAL ENGINE 5! [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/my0c7crBvqs/mqdefault.jpg "The (Lore-Accurate) Towns of Skyrim in UNREAL ENGINE 5! [4K]
These were scrapped ideas for some the smaller and lesser known Skyrim towns/villages that I sketched out and started ages ago, but eventually abandoned because they were either too small, or too obscure and didn’t make sense to do a whole video on each – but some were kinda interesting and (surprisingly) I did get a few requests to do some of these, so here you go!
Part of an ongoing project to visualise a more realistic and lore-accurate size to Tamriels cities, removed from gameplay and technical restrictions. So here’s Ivarstead, Karthwasten and Dragon Bridge (now with sixteen times the detail!)
Also tbh, this was also mostly an excuse to try out the new baked Niagara water simulations for the rivers and rapids… It’s an experimental plugin feature in 5.7, developed from the Witcher 4 demo and rolling out into the main release!
Rendered out in Unreal Engine 5.7.1 on an RTX 3090. Using a mix of third-party models and custom assets modelled and textured in Blender. Nanite was used for all models and foliage; Lumen for global illumination and reflections. TSR was used for anti-aliasing.
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Soundtrack: ‘Blending Spaces’, ‘Different Clouds’, ‘Drift’ – Helmut Schenker. ‘Gambit’ – Christoffer Moe Ditlevesen.
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0:00 - Ivarstead
3:14 - Karthwasten
5:40 - Dragon Bridge
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