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Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Been a (another) hot minute, but if you’re new here, this was a type of (literal) test-bench scene I was doing back in the Early Access phase 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.
In particular, 5.6 introduced a new form of (experimental) ray traced translucency through the Lumen hardware ray tracing pipeline – which wow – really makes a big difference and makes very challenging scenes like this even possible without path tracing at all. Although it has to be said that it also seemed to cause some weirdness with Niagara systems, with collision and rendering, both with translucent and non-translucent mesh renderers…? Granted I was using cpu-based ray tracing collisions? Hopefully just a bug with how the pipeline works...
Rendered out in Unreal Engine 5.6.1 on an Nvidia RTX 3090 using Nanite for most meshes, Lumen for GI and reflections and a combination of Megascans, Blender modelled & textured assets, and third-party assets.
(also now with even wayyy more fish!)
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Soundtrack: ‘See You in Court’ – Ludvig Moulin
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#aquarium #UE5 #UnrealEngine5
Been a (another) hot minute, but if you’re new here, this was a type of (literal) test-bench scene I was doing back in the Early Access phase 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.
In particular, 5.6 introduced a new form of (experimental) ray traced translucency through the Lumen hardware ray tracing pipeline – which wow – really makes a big difference and makes very challenging scenes like this even possible without path tracing at all. Although it has to be said that it also seemed to cause some weirdness with Niagara systems, with collision and rendering, both with translucent and non-translucent mesh renderers…? Granted I was using cpu-based ray tracing collisions? Hopefully just a bug with how the pipeline works...
Rendered out in Unreal Engine 5.6.1 on an Nvidia RTX 3090 using Nanite for most meshes, Lumen for GI and reflections and a combination of Megascans, Blender modelled & textured assets, and third-party assets.
(also now with even wayyy more fish!)
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Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound.
Soundtrack: ‘See You in Court’ – Ludvig Moulin
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#aquarium #UE5 #UnrealEngine5
![Virtual Aquarium | Forest in a (Water) Bottle | UE5 [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qtZhPbMZ31U/mqdefault.jpg "Virtual Aquarium | Forest in a (Water) Bottle | UE5 [4K]
Been a (another) hot minute, but if you’re new here, this was a type of (literal) test-bench scene I was doing back in the Early Access phase 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.
In particular, 5.6 introduced a new form of (experimental) ray traced translucency through the Lumen hardware ray tracing pipeline – which wow – really makes a big difference and makes very challenging scenes like this even possible without path tracing at all. Although it has to be said that it also seemed to cause some weirdness with Niagara systems, with collision and rendering, both with translucent and non-translucent mesh renderers…? Granted I was using cpu-based ray tracing collisions? Hopefully just a bug with how the pipeline works...
Rendered out in Unreal Engine 5.6.1 on an Nvidia RTX 3090 using Nanite for most meshes, Lumen for GI and reflections and a combination of Megascans, Blender modelled & textured assets, and third-party assets.
(also now with even wayyy more fish!)
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Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound.
Soundtrack: ‘See You in Court’ – Ludvig Moulin
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#aquarium #UE5 #UnrealEngine5")
![Unreal Engine 5 Environment Art Show Reel [UE5] #shorts](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rUkXYj9K4z4/mqdefault.jpg "Unreal Engine 5 Environment Art Show Reel [UE5] #shorts
Just a quick snapshot of some of my favourite 3D art works that Ive done these past few of months. Rendered in realtime using the Unreal Engine 5 game engine. #shorts
Blender was used for some asset creation and simulations, Quixel megascans for some 3d assets and texturing. Marketplace contect for specialised assets. All final outputs done in UE5.
For the full individual animations, please have a look at the rest of my channel.
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#Reel #shorts #UE5")
![Virtual Pine Garden | UE5 [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sDBLOMXBc9I/mqdefault.jpg "Virtual Pine Garden | UE5 [4K]
Take a walk through a quiet little forest path through the pines.
Running real-time in Unreal Engine 5.3 Preview 1, with a combination of Quixel assets and textures, third-party assets and custom assets modelled and textured in Blender. Nanite was used for the meshes, Lumen for GI and reflections.
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Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound.
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![Virtual Pine Grove | UE5 [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sagbSpMZLfQ/mqdefault.jpg "Virtual Pine Grove | UE5 [4K]
A cozy little pine grove in the summer.
Running realtime in Unreal Engine 5.6.1 on an RTX 3090, 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 all GI and reflections. TSR for anti-aliasing.
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Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound.
Soundtrack: “Whispering Our Name” - Cora Zea, Hanna Lindgren.
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![One Year in Unreal Engine 5 | Real-time Environment Art Showreel [UE5]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sd4qvI-tQoo/mqdefault.jpg "One Year in Unreal Engine 5 | Real-time Environment Art Showreel [UE5]
So it’s been about a year since I started posting my Unreal Engine 5 journey here, and honestly it’s flown by. From wading my way through the sea of bugs in Early Access, to the final release of UE5, it’s been a hell of a ride! And having my work featured in the Unreal Engine 5 release keynote and the creators sizzle reel was an amazing highlight to finish off this first year in Unreal 5!
I thought I’d gather together a showcase of some of my favourite scenes I’ve done; from re-imaginings of games like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, to oceans and indoor terrariums. It’s been great to put UE5 through its paces, testing out Nanite, Lumen and new workflows to take advantage of the power of realtime rendering.
These scenes are from various projects ranging from Early Access 1&2, Preview 1&2 to the full 5.0 release. Do note that especially for the earlier EA scenes, some features are incomplete or missing (like Lumen not fully supporting plants etc...)
Its been a blast playing around with Unreal Engine 5! Here’s to many more to come!
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#UE5 #UnrealEngine5 #Showreel")
![Virtual Meadow Creek | UE5 [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tGdMZbqBebc/mqdefault.jpg "Virtual Meadow Creek | UE5 [4K]
A quiet little creek cutting through a meadow high up in the mountains - rendered in Unreal Engine 5.3 using an RTX 3090.
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More 3090 stress tests! Nanite for all meshes and landscape – mostly megascans assets and atlases for the foliage. Hardware lumen for reflections and global illumination. No path-tracing used for this!
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![The Real Size of Sadrith Mora: Lore-Accurate Morrowind in UNREAL ENGINE 5! [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tVqF3ARFg8k/mqdefault.jpg "The Real Size of Sadrith Mora: Lore-Accurate Morrowind in UNREAL ENGINE 5! [4K]
I made Sadrith Mora in Unreal Engine 5 – at a more realistic and lore-accurate scale! Part of an ongoing project to visualise a more realistic and lore-accurate size to Tamriels cities, removed from gameplay and technical restrictions.
Sadrith Mora is where Morrowind really gets kinda weird. The houses are mushrooms, the buildings and towers are mushrooms. Just … so many mushrooms…
For the other cities in this series:
Skyrim: https://youtu.be/bPm-RPKcLE4?si=A50yT3J7sVBPhCF8
Oblivion (Cyrodiil): https://youtu.be/RakQAS8_PZ4?si=9jqFUZSZe5BsWs5P
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Please NOTE: This is a FANMADE cinematic lore visualisation for the Elder Scrolls. It is NOT a mod!
Rendered out in Unreal Engine 5.8 Preview 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. Megalights for mass lighting.
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Soundtrack: ‘Monuments’ – Bonnie Grace, ‘The Lonely Sailor’ – Adriel Fair.
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#morrowind #elderscrolls
0:00 – Cinematic
1:24 – Walkthrough")
![The Real Size of Ald’ruhn: Lore-Accurate Morrowind in UNREAL ENGINE 5! [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tziS6vtSCfs/mqdefault.jpg "The Real Size of Ald’ruhn: Lore-Accurate Morrowind in UNREAL ENGINE 5! [4K]
I made Ald’ruhn in Unreal Engine 5 – at a more realistic and lore-accurate scale!
Morrowind is just so delightfully… weird … especially compared to Skyrim and Oblivion’s more traditional high-fantasy aesthetic. It’s really not shy about how out-there it is – and Ald’ruhn is maybe one of the best examples of that. Also: beeg crab. Skar is such an incredibly cool concept. I mean, building a city partly inside the shell of a giant crab is just very… Morrowind. Some creative license is used here of-course, but overall I tried to keep to the aesthetic of the original game and extrapolate out based of that.
Part of an ongoing project to visualise a more realistic and lore-accurate size to Tamriels cities, removed from gameplay and technical restrictions.
For the other cities in this series:
Skyrim: https://youtu.be/bPm-RPKcLE4?si=A50yT3J7sVBPhCF8
Oblivion (Cyrodiil): https://youtu.be/RakQAS8_PZ4?si=9jqFUZSZe5BsWs5P
Please NOTE: This is a FANMADE cinematic lore visualisation for the Elder Scrolls. It is NOT a mod!
Rendered out in Unreal Engine 5.7.4 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: ‘Expiation’ - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen.
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#morrowind #elderscrolls #ue5")
![Dragon Age in Unreal Engine 5: The Fallow Mire in [UE5]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/u96uyqfzo88/mqdefault.jpg "Dragon Age in Unreal Engine 5: The Fallow Mire in [UE5]
The Fallow Mire was always a very interesting level from a lighting standpoint – very dramatic and moody atmosphere – and that giant moon hanging low in the sky gave quite an imposing effect.
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This is for my ‘Thedas Magic Mystery World Tour’ where I’m re-creating ... spiritual re-imaginings in the form of little cinematics from the game Dragon Age: Inquisition (originally Frostbite 3) in Unreal Engine 5! Mostly because it’s a more fun way of learning UE5 and getting the hang of the new features like Lumen and Nanite.
This scene started to incorporate a lot of other more complex elements like the rain and the water ripples, along with more emphasis on the exponential height fog to capture a more artistic lighting environment. A combination of self-modelled and third-party assets were used, along with some Quixel Megascans for the ground and the trees.
The rain was a Niagara system using a physical mesh-based raindrop – expensive, but turned out pretty nicely for that spitting rain effect. The water was simulated in Blender using dynamic paint vertex displacement and then bought into Unreal Engine 5 using alembic geometry cache.
Extensive use of nanite here – although lumen was having a bit of trouble with the darker-lit areas of the scene – so some supplementing with point/rect lights were necessary in some cases, along with cranking up the indirect light bounces for the directional light. The moon was actually a nanite physical UV sphere with an emission shader – this allowed very fine control of the positioning and framing of the scene, while also allowing the sky atmosphere to react to the moon in 3D space. The clouds and fog were simply animated texture cards.
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Please NOTE: I am not affiliated with Bioware in any way. This is a FANMADE cinematic tech DEMO inspired by Dragon Age Inquisition - it does not use any assets from the game itself, and as such, does not - and is not supposed to - match up one-to-one to the original. This is more to showcase the advances in technology that Unreal Engine 5 and next-gen game engines can provide - and honestly also just for fun!
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#UnrealEngine5 #UE5 #Lumen #Quixel #DragonAge
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Third party assets used:
Medieval Wood House 2 (https://skfb.ly/o6JYU) by LucasPresoto is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Thracian Woman Statue (https://skfb.ly/6CMLH) by Senselab is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Wall ruins - Fougères Castle (https://skfb.ly/6nNDR) by noxfcna is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).")
