The images shown in the video below depict the Etchū-Daimon train station realistically, but not real. Gentle warning: video is “shot” in first-person perspective, which can make viewers dizzy.
Etchū-Daimon Train Station recreated using Unreal Engine 5.
The footage you just watched was not filmed, but created entirely by computer. The creator of the impressive video, 3D artist Lorenzo Drago used Unreal Engine 5 and lighting effects from Lumen software to get the impressive production. He said he had done all the construction.models, surface images, light and motion effects” in the video, except for the little tree image taken from Quixel Megascans.
It was almost as if Lorenzo Drago had single-handedly recreated Etchū-Daimon Station, a real place in the beautiful country of Japan. Every detail in the video is either hand-designed by the artist, or detailed from actual images.
“For this project, I wanted to be as close to realistic graphics as possible“, I said. “I used my camera to get the most accurate sizing and carefully matched the results. I later adjusted the measurements accordingly“.
To add a sense of realism, Lorenzo Drago used virtual reality’s real-time eye tracking technology. The finished video makes viewers feel like they are holding a black battery to visit the real Etchū-Daimon station in the first person.
Lorenzo Drago took a month to successfully edit the short. He used a Ryzen 7 3700X chip and an RTX 2080 graphics card for the heavy rendering work, and the Unreal Engine 5 software showed its power with amazingly realistic video.
However, gamers can’t, or at least shouldn’t, expect next-generation games to achieve this level of graphics. The video was meticulously “assembled” by Lorenzo Drago for a month, and a game with this realistic graphics would be extremely picky about hardware.