a funny thing happened when i told a lie on the internet

i suggested that this photo i took near my house was a screenshot out of unreal engine 5, and many people believed me and were amazed, or didn’t but were unsure, or recognised it as a troll but thought it was a troll on people thinking it was a photo (which it was), or just got confused and annoyed, it was pretty great

but then: somebody spent 3 weeks recreating the photo in unreal engine 5

pretty great

in reply to @joewintergreen’s post:

Pivot DeerPup @pivot 12/30/2022, 5:04 PM

god i love this

(fen)nic @76f0e4667ed32667d2bfc063699b246e 12/30/2022, 10:33 PM

so UE5 is p cool I guess

David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian 12/31/2022, 3:15 AM

Did you accidentally make the new Cornell box or Sponza atrium?

Ringtail @ringtail 12/31/2022, 4:52 AM

wow, i guess i didnt realize just how accurate the lighting is in UE5

fluffy @fluffy 12/31/2022, 6:24 AM

That was pretty much inevitable, but still, pretty amazing.

Vincent Kinian @Video-Game-King 12/31/2022, 11:34 AM

Why are there such an obscene amount of polygons on the ground, the building to the right, and the molding on the right foreground wall (??????) ? There’s no way this is to facilitate lighting.

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen 12/31/2022, 11:53 AM

It’s because they’re photogrammetry results (quixel megascans in this case). Polys being cheap these days, the count there isn’t enough that it would be an issue even though they might as well be a plane, but also this is rendered with Nanite, which lets you have a billion billion tris and doesn’t even care