Lifelike Forested Mountains Made in Unreal Engine 5 With Lumen

Zubair Tanoli, a 3D Artist at Epic Games, continues his series of astonishing digital environments by unveiling Serenity in the Storm, a highly realistic real-time 3D scene set up with the help of Unreal Engine 5.

Depicting a tranquil setting of a beautiful lake surrounded by forested mountains, the environment was created to showcase the capabilities of Unreal Engine when it comes to designing digital landscapes. Besides UE5, the author also utilized Megascans and Sketchfab assets to set up the scene itself, DaVinci Resolve, Nuke for little touch-ups, and the engine's Lumen system for global illumination and reflections.

And here are some of the author's previous works, you can check out more by visiting Zubair's ArtStation page: 

For those unfamiliar, Lumen is Unreal Engine 5's fully dynamic global illumination and reflections system, specifically crafted for next-gen consoles. It serves as the default system for managing global illumination and reflections.

Lumen excels at rendering diffuse interreflection with infinite bounces and indirect specular reflections in large, detailed environments, spanning scales from millimeters to kilometers. Attached below are some insightful guides that will show you how Lumen can push lighting in your 3D environments to a whole new level:

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