Realistic Rain in Unreal Engine 5 : Sci-Fi Cinematic + Breakdown
Entry for "Alternate Realities" challenge showcasing how to do realistic rain in UE5 for cinematics.
This shot was my entry for @pwnisher 's #alternaterealities challenge sometime back. I never got around to adding sound and doing a full breakdown so here it is. I ported the system over to #ue5 and the rain system completely holds up I think. The splashes element clips to the edge which I think I could've done better. The key ingredients to make a realistic rain setup is to have the following elements: Rain drops that bead onto surfaces, rain drips that go down slopes, rain puddles if water can accumulate and rain ripples in those collected pools. This is where I would like to thank @BenCloward for making a very detailed and well explained series on how to make these material functions. I have shown the node setup briefly here but I highly recommend watching his series to build one yourself and get the texture files needed for it.
• Rain Wetness Shader - UE4 Materials 1...
Couple more things needed for realistic rain is the rain fall streaky lines that you can either make with Niagara or do what I did here, find elements from resources like ActionVFX and ingest them as flipbooks in UE. I used distant rain assets from them and I also used rain fall and splash elements from Ian's Patreon. If you want to make your own Distant Rain asset, you can also try filming fine particulate flour in turbulent wind as distant rain behaves more like a group of waves rather than individual streaky lines.
I would also like to give a massive thank you to Clint for hosting the challenge and to @SirWrender @IanHubert2 and @PeterFrance for giving their valuable feedback!
Also a round of thank you to @quixeltools shaders that allowed to create beautiful muddy ground and mud marks everywhere. This also wouldn't be as epic if I didn't have the amazing Spaceships kit from @KitBash3D !
Last but not the least, as always, couldn't have done this without the beautiful score from the talented @ScottBuckley !
'Celestial' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
If you would like to see more such cinematic shots with extended breakdowns, like and comment so I know what to upload! Bunch more such shots coming up from previous challenges I participated in.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:19 Final Result
00:53 Critiques by Clint, Ian, Peter and Wren
02:08 Mocap and Physics Sim
02:24 CG Passes
03:23 Earlier WIPs
04:18 Truck Material with Rain Effects
05:26 Upgrading Truck Parts to high res
06:15 Truck Lights
07:06 Truck Mud Decals
07:51 Trespassing Signs
08:12 Spaceships and SpacePort
09:37 Animated character with rain/mud effects
10:26 TV Screen with Commercial
10:51 Foreground Arched Pillars
11:18 Tethers to hold the SpacePort
11:49 Animated Soldiers with rain effects
12:34 Ground Material with rain effects
13:35 Railing and Generator
14:11 Scene lighting
14:42 Foreground Rain
15:16 Distant Rain
15:27 Refraction Rain and Splashes
17:08 Bright spotlight effect
17:24 Outro
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