Unreal Engine is appropriately named. I’ve been working on a seemingly simple landscape project. I shared some screenshots with friends and co-workers, and they all thought I had taken a trip to New Zealand and snapped some photographs during my travels. When really all I did was generate a basic world machine height map and create a simple two material blend. I mean, it took an hour to put together and tweak at the most. I didn’t even change any default settings in the engine. No Depth of field, post processing, advanced lighting etc. Just a simple two material blend and people think it’s a photograph. It’s really amazing what Unreal can produce in just one hour of work. I had one guy tell me “That’s beautiful, I want to live there…” So, like I said, one hour of work, Unreal…
I did also use some of Megascans surface materials, so maybe that has something to do with it as well. Still, very impressive in what you can accomplish in a short time. I didn’t even think it was all that good.
People who are CG artist can probably tell it’s not a photo, but other than that, I’ve had to tell people it’s just a game engine… So anyway, when I actually finish the project I can’t imagine what people will think.
