Dynamic lighting in Unreal Engine was achieved through approximations rather than brute force calculations, allowing for real-time effects like torch flickering and shadows.

Volumetric fog was implemented in Unreal Engine by calculating how light interacts with fog, allowing for realistic lighting effects in foggy environments.

The future of storytelling in film using Unreal Engine involves moving away from traditional green screens to LED wall panels that display real-time graphics, enhancing the quality of lighting and actor performance.

Creating ultra-realistic environments in Unreal Engine involves intricate details like dirt and lighting, which contribute to the immersive experience of scenes set in historical contexts, such as Nazi-occupied France in 1943.

The optimization of rendering in Unreal Engine was a significant challenge, focusing on reducing the cost of rendering pixels to improve performance.

Unreal Engine is a comprehensive software package that provides all the necessary functions to build any 3D graphics application, used not only in gaming but also in film, television, and industrial design.

The evolution of Unreal Engine from 1 to 5 has been marked by significant performance gains in hardware, allowing for increasingly realistic graphics and dynamic environments, but the biggest limitation remains its single-threaded nature of game simulation, complicating game logic and making multi-thread programming more challenging.

The introduction of GPUs changed the landscape of game development, but much of Unreal Engine's early development focused on software rendering before real GPUs became available.

Use a light meter app to measure the brightness of light in your environment, as sunlight can be significantly brighter than indoor lighting.