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Brais Brenlla Ramos
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Brais Brenlla Ramos

Brais Brenlla Ramos is a passionate Architect, 3D artist, Unreal Engine 4 developer and first-time author based between A Corua and his place of work in London, UK. His passion for all things 3D-related dates back to when he was playing games as a child, experiences that fuelled his later studies in architecture and computer animation. His entrance into the professional 3D world happened at the same time as his studies were finishing, with initial projects undertaken in the field of architectural visualization for different studios. Since then, he's worked on many different 3D modeling and app development projects, first as a team member, and later as the Unreal Engine 4 lead developer at a company called AccuCities, based in London.
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Using static lighting in our projects

The arrival of Unreal Engine 5 has seen the introduction of very important and groundbreaking technologies into the real-time visualization realm. Nanite, Lumen, and Virtual Shadow Maps… these are all new features that move the industry forward, and they ultimately give us higher-fidelity results when it comes to rendering our scenes.

Perhaps accidentally, we’ve already looked at one of those new features – Lumen. As the new default dynamic global illumination and reflections system, we’ve seen its effects when we worked on the previous recipe. We only had to worry about placing a light and adjusting some of its attributes for the scene to look right; we didn’t have to create reflection captures, bake lightmaps, or use other techniques that might sound completely alien to you if you are starting your real-time journey with this version of the engine.

Despite that, we are going to take a quick look at the...

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Brais Brenlla Ramos

Brais Brenlla Ramos is a passionate Architect, 3D artist, Unreal Engine 4 developer and first-time author based between A Corua and his place of work in London, UK. His passion for all things 3D-related dates back to when he was playing games as a child, experiences that fuelled his later studies in architecture and computer animation. His entrance into the professional 3D world happened at the same time as his studies were finishing, with initial projects undertaken in the field of architectural visualization for different studios. Since then, he's worked on many different 3D modeling and app development projects, first as a team member, and later as the Unreal Engine 4 lead developer at a company called AccuCities, based in London.
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