Wasteland animated Scene (Unreal Engine 5 Lumen)

Here is my animated Wasteland scene I put together in about 2 Days. My goal was it to create a realistic scene with movable objects. Using various free asset packs from the Unreal marketplace. The crow has pre made animations, but I had to make it "fly" through the screen. Also made some of the sounds myself like the wing flap sound. I am constantly impressed by Unreal and how approachable it is. (Working in Unreal about 3 Months)
Here is the free CROW ASSET with cool animations:
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[@CFox.7]

The realism of that bird flight was uncanny ! Could have sworn I was watching a real angry bird take to the air

[@olegklaus]

Thanks for the comment. How many years of experience do you have with unreal or game development in general?

[@CFox.7]

@@olegklaus glad you can take a joke bro. If this is forced on me in recommended then prepare for comments. I know the bird is an asset.

[@olegklaus]

@@CFox.7 don't know what you mean by recommend. English is not my first language as you may noticed. If you have any suggestions on how to improve the animation, that would be great.

[@shane1039]

If Fallout 5 was made on UE5.

[@olegklaus]

They announced the new Witcher in UE5, curious to see how it looks. :)

[@shane1039]

@@olegklaus I heard. Very excited to see how it turns out :D

[@aledmb]

looks nice! i would try to throw some dirt and mud over the other assets, like the metal pipes and the tire... also reduce the repetition cause by the same plant being used several times.

[@olegklaus]

That's for pointing that out. Although this is a finished scene I will keep that in mind for the next one. You mean I should use dirt decals on other objects?

[@astroman310]

Bravo!

[@olegklaus]

Thank you! :)

[@ishraa2743]

We don't need a PlayStation 6 anymore..well done

[@olegklaus]

Thank you! I prefer PC anyway :)

[@mustaphaaelaz8128]

great, it's necessary rtx 3090 and good cpu to make this result or you can do that with settings only ??

[@olegklaus]

Hey, I don't have a high end PC but its not bad i guess. (RTX 2070 Super) I used the Movie Render Queue with Anti-Aliasing to get a decent render quality.

[@diesereine8187]

Sick! Great work!

[@olegklaus]

Thank you very much, appreciate it!

[@drsjamesserra]

Freakin Awesome!

[@olegklaus]

Thank you very much!

[@sercanyildirimtugcann]

Can I use this environment for VR project or game?

[@olegklaus]

Hey, Thank you for asking, however, this is not a complete environment. I mean if I woul turn the camera left or right you would see a blank world. Are you using Unreal?

[@sercanyildirimtugcann]

@@olegklaus Yes! just wondering how can I create photorealistic environment for VR using UE5? Any tutorial suggestion? Thank yu!

[@olegklaus]

@@sercanyildirimtugcann Oh man I wish I could help you with that. I don't have VR myself. I am not sure about KZbinrs but i think I saw a couple of VR tutorials on the Unreal online learning platform. Just sign up there, there are very good tutorials. But after all the general process of creating an environment should be the same as for regular games. There's also a VR template as you may have seen. I would start with that.

[@owenb6499]

this is so well done, the lighting and atmosphere are perfect. Also, for the ground is it 1 texture, or a ground with displacement + a plane with reflection?

[@olegklaus]

Thank you, that means I am doing something right :) The ground is a flat landscape with a reflective material. For the sand and stones I used Quixel Megascan assets and copied them a bunch of times. Hope this was helpful.

[@reallygoodgames1172]

This looks excellent. Well done

[@olegklaus]

Thank you very much! Diving head first into unreal :)

[@crazzylee]

The crow looked like really physics was going on. Birds don’t hump the air.

[@olegklaus]

Not exactly sure what you mean. I know it's not perfect, but I will get better eventually.

[@crazzylee]

@@olegklaus the crow seemed overweight upon take off.

[@olegklaus]

@@crazzylee agree, it doesn't look very good but i can't do it better at the moment. Rendering and setting up the scene is one thing, animation is an other beast. Just having fun with the engine.

[@crazzylee]

@@olegklaus I 💯 agree with you . Your work is incredible. I think I perceive a more profound leap motion is needed. Keep up the good work.

[@olegklaus]

@@crazzylee thank you for the nice words, I'll try to improve with my next animation. If you want please have a look at my other video where I animated a dear in the snow, i think it turned out better. (The Photo)

[@NoorMarji]

This is amazing!!! I would love to see a tutorial of how you made this scene! 😃 incredible work!!

[@olegklaus]

Thank you very much, it's actually not too difficult. Used only free assets. I could make a breakdown video on how I made it. If you are interested please check out my other Videos as well. Thank you!

[@NoorMarji]

@@olegklaus i definitely will check out your videos, and please when you have time I'd love to see the breakdown video! Keep up the incredible work 👏🙌

[@olegklaus]

@@NoorMarji Thank you I will do my best.

[@ysmir6065]

the crow animation was laughable , buut everything else was holy fuck

[@olegklaus]

Thanks, animation is hard, also it's the default animation the mesh comes with. Any suggestions on how to improve it?

[@alejandrodilorenzo9003]

Amazing work! truly trluy impressive. May I ask what process did you use to build the ground? It looks incredibly real and natural

[@olegklaus]

Thank you for the nice words! I made a flat landscape with a reflective "swamp material" and used Quixel Megascans assets (beach and stones) duplicated them a bunch of times... Also used some trash decals. It is really basic, the most time consuming part was the fog and the lighting.

[@its_argho]

I want games that look like these. Don't know when its going to be a reality :)

[@olegklaus]

Me too, i am sure someone will make one in the near future. (Not me) 😅

[@RqZen]

First of all, that looks amazing and the second Thing is, how did you make the little reflectiv water puddles on the ground?(btw sorry for my bad english but im from german)

[@olegklaus]

Hey, kein Problem. Ich habe eine flache Landschaft mit einem "Sumpf" Material erstellt. Und dann mit Quixel Megascans die Steine platziert. Ist wirklich nichts Besonderes. Hoffe das konnte dir weiterhelfen :)

[@RqZen]

@@olegklaus Ah ok, danke für die Hilfe👍

[@nintendians]

looks good.

[@olegklaus]

Thank you!

[@noczfps1]

nice

[@olegklaus]

Thank you, ill try to do more of these.

[@kemala.5297]

oh my word this is outstanding !!

[@olegklaus]

Thank you very much, appreciate it! :)

[@yogeshkumar-oc1pg]

I can see how much time you spend to perfect crow animation great job

[@olegklaus]

To be honest, the crow animations are not done by me, like the picking or the wing movement. These come with the crow assets itself. However, I merged them together in the sequencer and had to adjust the coordinates, so it takes off the ground and moves through the screen.

[@MrEp5]

The crow is the one thing that makes it look unnatural when starting to fly.. I mean i know its nice to be nice, but its better to be honest and critical of ones work. Or else we will just accept anything people say and you will not grow. Animating is totally different than making photorealistic scenes.

[@olegklaus]

@@MrEp5 agree, as I sad it's just something I wanted to try out, the mashes are different in quality as well so I get your point. Thank you for the feedback.

[@coreym162]

Wow!

[@olegklaus]

Thanks! :)

[@gavinstarkey4606]

Great work it looks very good. How did you do the birds in this please?

[@olegklaus]

Thank you! I didn't make the birds myself, its a free asset on the unreal marketplace. (There are different animals to choose from)

[@gavinstarkey4606]

@@olegklaus Ahh great thanks for letting me know, The scene looks great :)

[@gavinstarkey4606]

I try and do a floor with megascans materials but it just looks really flat. how do you get the depth and water? Are you using some kind of displacement on this or lots of separate items? Thanks

[@olegklaus]

@@gavinstarkey4606 Yes, those are different materials, I used a flat landscape with a swamp material and on top of that placing beach and stones Megascans assets. This is not actually water but simply a reflective material. Hope this was helpful. :)

[@gavinstarkey4606]

@@olegklaus Brilliant, thanks for letting me know! I'm going to give something like this a try as it looks amazing :)

[@SuperlativeCG]

It's very exciting.

[@olegklaus]

Thank you! :)