3D Artist Unveils a UE5 Environment Made Entirely Out of High-Poly Assets

Yan Ru, a renowned Environment/Lighting Artist who specializes primarily in setting up highly-detailed 3D scenes in Unreal Engine, continues to experiment with real-time rendering by showcasing Palais Garnier, a majestic game environment and a thorough 3D recreation of the world's most famous opera house's Grand Staircase, created to explore the possibilities of creating game environments.

Moreover, the Palais Garnier environment features full dynamic lighting and projection. You can observe the lighting and shadows change in real-time through the changing sunlight, the mirror ball shot from a gun, and the lamp knocked down in the videos embedded above. On top of that, the scene supports NVIDIA's DLSS tech, allowing Yan to run it at 160-210 FPS on an RTX 4090 GPU.

And here are some behind-the-scenes shots shared by Yan, you can check out more by visiting the artist's ArtStation page. You can also download the scene as an .exe file and experience it for free by clicking this link:

Earlier, Yan also showcased a gorgeous real-time 3D scene depicting a grandiose Baroque-style ballroom, an impressive NPR Japanese-style 3D scene, and Anime Tokyo, a large-scale recreation of Japan's capital city stylized as a location from a typical anime series:

Previously, we also spoke with Yan about the Majestic Ballroom project, inspired by the Palace of Versailles and the Paris Opera, with the artist sharing the working process behind the scene, showing how Nanite in UE 5.1 was used, and explaining the lighting setup. You can check out our interview with the artist here.

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