Rain Garden in UNREAL ENGINE 5 | Forest in A Bottle [A UE5 Cinematic, Lumen, Nanite]

A cinematic animation of a relaxing indoor rain garden terrarium, rendered in real-time using Unreal Engine 5. There’s just something about nature and the sound of falling water that’s so calming. This is more Japanese inspired - with the bamboo and the lanterns... Inspired by Asu – specifically this video here: If you know, you know. This is a rework of an old project, originally started in Blender Eevee as a test of what real-time rendering was capable of. Previous version here: But with the release of Unreal Engine 5 Early Access – the game changed. With Nanite and especially Lumen – UE5’s dynamic global illumination system – what previously would have been impossible even in UE4 – is now simply breathtakingly easy. Photorealism in realtime has never been quite this easy... Even using Eevee – Blender’s internal real-time engine – (which is no slouch) I was getting a render time of around 4-5 mins per frame at a 2K resolution – with a single Nvi