Striving for Photorealism in UE4

[EoinOBroin]

@BlueBudgie;543765

One more: the images above is for me an absolute reference. You have to realize how good this is when you compare different render techniques. Comparing real time rendering in UE4, where you fake everything as good as possible, and then true path tracing methods, where you try to be as physically correct as possible, you have to say that the ‘fake-as-good-as-possible’ method is almost equal.
I mean our man did some nature Octane renders some time ago with a scattering tool that he wrote. You look at them and then you look at your images (you are the better artist ) you would not be able to say that one is UE4 and one is Octane. That is amazing. You would not be able to render those images any better with 3dsmax or Octane or whatever. And UE4 is real-time 60fps.

Thank you I really do appreciate that! The idea of having realtime scenes that look almost as good as offline rendered stuff really excites me, which is why I have been pursuing it ever since seeing Koola’s work! Really have to give so much thanks to Epic who provide these awesome tools which are capable of so much! Haven’t had this much fun ever before!