▶ See the pack in Unreal Engine 5 (4K): https://youtu.be/DPKnLt49Qjw
Ten levels, ten evenings. Open one, press Play, and the sky does the lighting.
Each Unreal Engine 5 level in this pack sits under a different waterfront sky, from a low sun over a still lake to a river lined with lit towers after dark. The panoramas are 8192 × 4096 and stored as true HDR: street lamps, signs and office windows carry values up to 24, so they light the scene and flash in reflections instead of printing as flat pixels.
✦ THE EVENINGS, ONE BY ONE
Sun going down - Still Lake Sunset (calm water, peach to blue), Lighthouse Bay Sunset (black silhouettes on a coral sky), Golden Sunrays Bay (a sun disc and a fan of rays)
After the sun - Violet Bay Blue Hour (purple sky, mountain, harbour lights), Downtown Overcast Dusk (rooftop view under heavy clouds), Misty Harbour Marina (teal fog, glass towers)
Lights on - Golden Lakefront Promenade (park lamps), Twin Supertall Riverside (towers on both banks), Neon Tower River (a magenta tower, coloured reflections), Riverwalk Canyon Night (office blocks and street lamps)
✦ WHAT YOU GET IN UNREAL ENGINE 5
10 TextureCube assets - HDR compressed, 2048 px faces (4 × 2048 = 8192 around the horizon)
10 example levels - one per sky, each with an HDRI Backdrop, a Post Process Volume on manual exposure and a Player Start facing the skyline
Your own level - drop in an HDRI Backdrop, pick one of the cubes, set Projection Center to your camera height; or feed the cube to a Sky Light for lighting and reflections only
Exposure - compensation 0 matches the previews; lower it by 2 and the sky darkens while the city lights keep shining
✦ ALSO IN THE LISTING
Unity package - 10 HDR cubemaps, 10 skybox materials, a demo scene and HDRP Volume Profiles (Built-in, URP and HDRP)
Source files - every sky as .hdr, 16-bit .exr and 8K .png, for any other tool
✦ GOOD TO KNOW
Requirements - Unreal Engine 5.4 and above (the HDRI Backdrop plugin ships with the engine and is enabled in the project); Unity 2022.3 and above for the Unity package
Light range - rebuilt from the image's light sources, not from bracketed camera shots; great for highlights, not a measured light probe
Looking down - some skies are softer straight down than at the horizon
No dependencies - no third-party plugins, no code
✦ MADE FOR
Racing and driving scenes, open-world cities, harbour and rooftop levels, archviz with a water view, car and product renders, cinematics, virtual production and 360° VR.