Water is still wet – but thanks to Epic’s engine, rain is depicted more realistically than ever. An amazing simulation!
Artist Dylan Browne has released a stunning video of water simulation in Unreal Engine 5 via Twitter. The short video by the visual effects artist who specialises in virtual lighting shows once again the amazing graphic marvels that Unreal Engine 5 enables artists to create.
Dylan’s latest water simulation shows realistically behaving water beneath a solid surface. Dylan recently made the result of his experiment public via a Twitter posting:
Got the scale right for a more realistic look, really happy with this!
27GB Alembic, this time using the alembic streaming method.
~4 mill poly per frame.UnrealEngine UnrealEngine5 UE5 Houdini Cinematic GameDev pic. twitter.com/Rtafhn8Sb4
– Dylan Browne (@DylserX) April 8, 2023
The following are some of the key data for the above water simualtion:
- Houdini and Unreal Engine 5: The project was created with the industry-standard 3D animation software Houdini and the currently enormously popular 3D real-time engine Unreal Engine 5.
- Alembic Streaming: The project was implemented as so-called Alembic Streaming. In this process, static or animated data is cached as streaming-capable cache files.
- The rain simulation in bare figures: According to Dylan, the clip is composed of a total of 200 frames and approximately 4 million polygons per frame.
Who is Dylan Browne? The man is an accomplished visual effects artist, with career stints at notable visual effects houses (Mr. X (now MPC Film) and (The Mill).
For Mr. X, Dylan worked as a visual effects artist on the video game adaptation Mortal Kombat
respectively, he held the same position for The Mill on the family film Dora and the Lost City of Gold
, on the post-apocalyptic monster movie Love and Monsters
and on the science fictioner Finch
starring Tom Hanks.
For those who would like to read up further on Dylan Browne’s work as a visual effects artist, you can visit his (Twitter appearance)
Are you also impressed by the graphical and design possibilities of the latest Unreal Engine, or do graphical marvels leave you cold? Do you play around in the Unreal Engine yourself, or do you prefer to immerse yourself in virtual worlds as a gamer and moviegoer? Feel free to let us know in the comments
