@@WilliamFaucher I like everything except for the film grain. The film grain I see in movies is different that what I see here. If you could apply a different filter it could look better. But overall I think it would have looked better without the film grain that with.
This looks absolutely amazing!! Well done William! I'm currently experimenting with Reality Capture myself, so that coupon was very welcome! Thank you 🙂
I’m Norwegian and I think you’ve done a fantastic job of capturing the essence of this Church. I’ve personally been there and this Church has a historic legacy.
Besides this being the coolest shit ever, Faucher has an insane talent for making sure every sentence said in a breakdown is helpful in some way. No dead air, no useless rambling.
So basically, 3D scanning an environment, you used a similar method that Developers "Big Fish" 3D Scanning of Chernobyl for their game Chernobylite - Which runs on Unreal Engine 4 - Making the real scanned maps of the game feel like a AA+ title.. However, this church in Unreal Engine 5 looks phenomenally better, you'd think it's a Pre-Rendered cutscene, but it's all Real-Time!
This is beautiful! I'm impressed you didn't get much distortion in the scan around the top of the church despite not having the greatest coverage. Also your scene reminds me of the church in The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. Amazing work mate!
The church in Ethan Carter is based on the Vang Stave Church in southern Poland, which is actually a Norwegian church transferred to Poland in 1842. The game contains other regional references, the dam, hydro-power plant and the railway bridge are based on their counterparts in Pilchowice. Not sure how accurate but I remember hearing that the game was one of the pioneers in photo scanning real environments.
Amazing, William would you be able to do a tutorial, in which you could explain method for managing multiple stills Shots with different camera and different settings? To do things efficiently?
computer rendering is improving day by day, these amazing artists are creating what seemed like dream few years ago. Imagine how this will take shape in no longer than 10 years! Absolutely stunning.
just wanna say this dude Thank you for this video i was really dangling around regarding my work and this gave me a good spark just loved this video and yeah gonna try Reality Capture for my next project
Wow It’s interesting to see how micro macro filmmaking is fast becoming a form unto itself. In capable hands, serving to be satisfying, inspiring, educational and fun. Super storytelling from a dedicated Master. And I’m only half way in. Thank you William Your adventures are well appreciated.
Hi, This is a really really cool video as usual !! Thanks william for such great contents. I just have one question. Did you use a custom BP_spline mesh (BP_NVSplineMesh) made by you ? Is it available on the marketplace ? Thanks
This is amazing! I am curios if you consider to obtain the 3D model of the interior as well and then have it prepared to a VR environment allowing users to navigate and explore this wonderful church. I have worked on something similar with a wooden Church from Transylvania, but the quality that you obtained is just incredible.
@@WilliamFaucher Would be nice to see how a Stave Church looks on the interior. I agree that it would be a huge struggle to capture the interior. I am also curios how you photogrammetry the windows and if you post processed the resulting mesh of the windows, I see that the Church has a limited amount of windows and they are not zoomed in within the video.
Thanks so much I made my first render in UE5 with your help, but no matter which tutorials i lookup., I just can't seem to get my head around the spline tool for things like megascan trees, roads, fences, etc.
3D capture entire world please, we would watch it lol. What about also using laser scanners? They could prevent lighting problems but i have no idea if reality capture can use both sources.
This is incredible. There is something about Unreal 5 that looks almost better then reality. Seems richer, crisper. P.S. this Church needs to be in the next Skyrim.
All i can say is WOW... GREAT WORK. Future games are so exciting. We wont be watching movies, we will be characters in them. Things like Jurassic Park will be a literal place you can visit and explore in the virtual world. I thought this as i saw this and when you pair this tech with VR and Multiplayer.. Its truly an experience that NO ONE who loves video games should miss. The only thing better really is real life.
God bless this man. Finding good pictures of the Urnes knot work carvings on the side of the building (which should be easy, because literally, the global conception of what Viking carvings look like is called “Urnes style” named specifically after those very carvings on the side of that church) is almost impossible. Now we can see them clearly altogether! Incredible. Thank you, sir!!! 🙌
I immediately recognised the church. I went on a road trip in 2020 with my girlfriend. We crossed Urnes by accident and went to visit the stave church because why not. It was such a special place for us. The boat to the little town, the walk up to the church. Really cool you made it with this much detail
Bro Please create tutorials with tips, techniques, and fixes for the problems we encounter every day. Also, you haven't created an in-depth tutorial on PCG.
I’ve already done quite a few of those! As for PCG, I am waiting a bit for things to smooth out a bit. It is still a bit buggy and the process is going to change a bit according to Epic, so I don’t want to waste my time making a tutorial when it will be outdated shortly. You can use the foliage tool for trees until then if you dont want to dive in to PCG ☺️
William - cannot tell you how much I look forward to your tutorials. You are the perfect teacher - you’ve got the chops and you know how convey your knowledge in a friendly, straightforward manner that keeps viewers engaged while learning. Thank you.
'making it almost.. 9....hundred...years old..' Welcome to Europe, mate. 😂 Amazing project and results. 👍 Also, the Danes were mostly fighting in England. The Norwegians mostly went to Ireland.
This is terribly incredible. my mind blow up how i want to start learn EU. I lived in Norway/Aurland for a year, I often drove past this church, but there was no opportunity or time to go there. And I was shocked to see this church in this form.
I thought i've been here. at least spotted it when crossing a village. but it's not the same church. I've been near the Hopperstad Stave Kyrkje in Vik, before crossing the Sognefjord :) Also alomst entirely black, maybe caught fire once or something.
That's an eye feast for sure. Amazing results, considering the amount of time and a number of pictures. Simply impeccable, I wish I could walk around the scene looking at every detail.
Hot DAMN, sometimes I forgot I was even looking at a render and not real life. Truly, UE5 is a blessing of a tool, and when such capable hands pick it up, what can only be described as magic is created. Truly, amazing job!
Looks like 100 man years of work but of course it's perfectly doable by everyone... Love it. Absolutely taken care of all details and a bunch of decade old techniques, simple but super effective.
10 months ago I was so inspired by your Lofoten scene, that I made my own project with autumn overcast setting and an old house with wood carving. What a coincidence - stoked to see your take on a similar subject and setting. Amazing job and the best presentation as always! Keep inspiring us, William.
Picture yourself in an era when such possibilities were just a dream. I can still recall the initial attempt to activate my orchid voodoo card while playing Quake 1. We at first imgained that there was improvement on screen, and then, suddenly, when it actually kicked in- the transformation was astonishing. It was a mere smudge of pixels, but it delivered a silky-smooth 30 frames per second. And we had never ever seen anything like that in game-graphic terms. Fast forward 25 years, and we evolved through advancements like pysx, Nvidia, UE3 and now UE5. Nanite, and lumen have pushed the boundaries of graphical capabilities. Yet, as impressive as it is, it pales in comparison to that unforgettable first experience. We've become somewhat desensitized to the mind-boggling graphics we see today. Yet, I can't help but smile and reminisce when I witness the opening scenes of this movie, reflecting on how times have evolved. Astonishing work well done!
I wish the Edoras set they built for the Lord of the Rings trilogy was still there. The Golden Hall of Meduseld is practically beginning to be turned into an Unreal Engine 5 model.
Not even 10 years. Right now, games are capable of this, but only the highest end gaming PC is capable of doing it this outstandingly well. Currently EPIC is using Fortnite to showcase these features, and the results (even for a more cartoon art style) are jaw-dropping on the latest consoles. I played the other day and was just marveling at the fine details you don't notice unless you stop and look. I stopped in a "cheese and meats shop," and the cut wheels of cheese up close were slightly low resolution, but still good enough to show every little crater and crack. The ray tracing used for reflections and shadows in the game were running in software, and they also do a great job mimicking what the brute force of hardware based solutions can do. Honestly console hardware just needs to catch up at this point as these techniques for more realistic art direction is fairly demanding
I just came back from Norway and I'm so jealous you were able to see this church! It's on my list of things to come back to :) I mainly stayed in Lofoten. Is there a reason you don't use a drone when you are doing photogrammetry? Would it help at all to get more of that detail from the top of the church?
Amazing tutorial as always! I’d love a detailed breakdown of your Gaea workflow using real world heightmaps. This is something that’d help creators across film, game dec, archviz, and more!
brilliant as usual - great scan of the church, and shot composition! Can we take a minute to appreciate your tiling spline path however, that is a gem!
Hi William. First of all, thank you so much for sharing this. Secondly, I am wondering if it is possible to get more details about how to set up the textures with that incredible amount of detail. I mean, I am new in ue5 and I've been trying to get that level of detail without any decent results. Did you use just normal maps? Do They get any kind of displacement maps? Could you share some tips to get this impressive result in terms of texturing, please Or any tutorial where I can get more information about how to achieve realistic textures in ue5 to follow along? Thank you so much in advance.
I am in awe of the results and your humility. I’ve been wanting to get into 3D work for so many years. You’ve actually made me feel like I can do it. My journey begins tomorrow. Thank you 🙏
Hi William, Huge fan of your work! I have a question to you as a Nikon user: My beloved D700 died recently. I have nice lenses from "screwdriver" times (D series) 24/35/50/85. All very bright. Would you recommend to buy D850 for utilising the lense or better to sell them and get Z8 i.e.? It is higher cost... that is why I want to ask. D700 failed me in dark areas, I wonder how it would be with others. Best of luck and keep up the great work - your channel is one of a kind. Karol
Cool workflow! Love this tech in the sense of preservation as well. If anything awful ever happened to that church, neat to know it's been captured in such a detailed way.
Man, thank you so much. Reality Capture was the missing program in my workflow (it's FREE to use by now btw.), my life /future changed because of your videos. You spread so much helpful information, it's awesome. Again, thank you so much! 👍
William, hello! Please tell me, what light settings did you use in the UDS project? I can't even repeat your light in any way( Did you use simulation in UDC and what is the value of Sun Light Intensity? Do you adjust the illumination of the scene due to the intensity of the sun or the physical settings of the camera?
Dear William, you are a rare gem to find. Glad u are here. I wish to Scan an alley for instance with a DSLR how should I move when shooting? As I can not make a circle around it How to approach such Street to create a digital double.? Best regards.
Hi William, probably the 1000th time I've watched this!! I know it's not directly UE5 related, but I'd very much appreciate it if you could give some insight into how you went about using the height maps to create the stunning terrain in Gaea! Keep up the incredible work! Can't wait for you next vid! Wayne
Fantastic job man. A couple years ago I laser scanned and RGB photographed a historic stone pile graveyard in Southern Finland and made a big point cloud. End product was a DWG of the area but I also made some real nice orthophotos from it and the grave sites. It's a Unesco heritage site called Sammallahdenmäki.
love your videos bro....just got EasyFog not to long ago super dope....by the way what type of assets are you using for the "dirt road" im looking for a good road asset to buy....thank you for the console variable tip.....dope....god bless you broddy
