Rainy Cabin - Relight

This is my relight study of the Modular Rural Cabin project on Fab by Maarten Hof. All lighting and post processing is done in Unreal Engine 5 using the post processing volume, rendered using the Movie Render Queue MP4 codec plugin. Davinci Resolve used for adding audio to the sequencer video export.

My focus was on a foggy blue hour time of day with rain using reference images gathered. Applying realistic lighting values of a directional light intensity between 5-15 lux for past sunset hours, lighting most of the environment with the HDRI backdrop and art directing from there using fog and fog cards to achieve depth with colour grading done in the post processing volume to match the reference closely. Blueprint actor controls for the light assets using light function materials with a combination of event and construction graphs for flickering lights. I would like to explore blueprint actors setups in more detail as I think more accurate control can be achieved in the future.

Resources: Modular Rural Cabin by Maarten Hof at Fab.com, EasyFog and EasyRain by William Faucher at Fab.com, HDRI by PolyHaven at PolyHaven.com, Mp4 video condec by FFmpeg at FFmpeg.org, Light assets by Dekogon Studios using Lighting VOL.1-3 at Fab.com, License-free audio used from Youtube.