Free Unreal Engine Sample Project: Valley of the Ancient Nanite and Lumen Demo (Epic Games)

Overview

Epic Games offers Valley of the Ancient on Fab, a sample project for getting to know the rendering, open world, audio and animation technologies introduced with Unreal Engine 5 Early Access, including Nanite, Lumen, World Partition, FBIK, Motion Warping and Control Rig. It lets users fly over a 2x2 km photorealistic environment composed of Quixel Megascans assets and then transition to a mythical world that demonstrates interactive gameplay features.

The listing notes that the project was created with next-generation console hardware in mind, needs about 205 GB of storage and recommends a 12-core CPU, 64 GB of RAM and an RTX 2080 or Radeon 5700 XT class GPU. It is free with an Epic account through Fab, with versions for Unreal Engine 5.0 through 5.7.