A bolt-action rifle on a bipod silhouetted against an open doorway, bright sunlit ground beyond, three rounds standing on the table edge in the foreground.

Project R3D

A briefing tent under camouflage, built to be lit rather than to be modelled. The brief I set myself was to light one room well enough that it reads as a place, not a set. The rifle and the three rounds stay in frame as the control across every state.

games
2026
Unreal Engine 5
scene assembly
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Three brass rounds standing upright and sharp on a trestle table, the rifle behind them thrown out of focus, daylight through the doorway beyond. — The control, close
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The rifle laid across a trestle table under blue practical lamps, camouflage tent lining behind, laptops glowing on the far tables. — Practicals after dark
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The full briefing tent interior under a single overhead fluorescent, folding chairs pulled up to two trestle tables, whiteboard at the far end. — Overhead fluorescent
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The rifle and three rounds on a table lit warm from a low angle, the tent falling away into shadow behind. — Low warm key
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Breakdown

Wide interior — Lighting only — Wide interior
Lighting only

Wide interior — Lit — Wide interior
Lighting only

Tables overhead — Lighting only — Tables overhead
Lighting only

Tables overhead — Lit — Tables overhead
Lighting only

Briefing three quarter — Lighting only — Briefing three quarter
Lighting only

Briefing three quarter — Lit — Briefing three quarter
Lighting only

The rifle — Lighting only — The rifle
Lighting only

The rifle — Lit — The rifle
Lighting only

The briefing tent with no lighting applied, flat grey geometry showing the blockout and the placement of every table, chair and crate.

Unlit

Technical

Unreal Engine 5
Real-time, practical light sources
Post-process volumes, exposure and grade
Straight from engine. No Photoshop work.

Authorship

My contribution: scene assembly, lighting, camera, set dressing, composition, final grade.

Assets: KitBash3D and Leartes Studios licensed marketplace assets, Quixel Megascans materials and textures, No original modelling.

Software: Unreal Engine 5.

UE5 · STRAIGHT FROM ENGINE · NO PHOTOSHOP

What I’d change

It is a scene, not a level. The tent reads as a place but nobody lives in it — I would put MetaHumans in there and design the characters properly, so the chairs and the tables have a reason to be where they are. Then a base exterior, so the doorway opens onto something instead of a bright plane. The real change is making it walkable — GASP and Mover locomotion, so you move through the interior yourself rather than looking at four frames of it. That is a different piece of work, and it is the one worth doing next.

Task Force 5-1