PropHaus showcases their Small Town Stores – Modular Pack, an incredible collection of high-quality assets designed for creating photorealistic American street scenes, leveraging the power of Lumen and Nanite for unparalleled real-time visuals.
When aiming for AAA quality in real-time environments, asset choice is paramount. The developers at PropHaus have recently demonstrated exactly what can be achieved with carefully crafted modular assets, releasing a breathtaking walkthrough of their Small Town Stores pack.
This collection focuses on delivering an authentic American street environment, complete with both exterior and interior modular pieces, achieving a level of photorealism that genuinely blurs the line between digital and reality.
The Quest for Photorealism
PropHaus, known for producing detailed asset collections, has pushed the boundaries of visual fidelity with this latest offering. The accompanying video walkthrough serves as a stunning piece of ArchViz and visual development, showing off the meticulous attention to detail in everything from faded paint textures to storefront signage.
To achieve this incredible quality, the asset pack is built specifically to take advantage of cutting-edge real-time rendering technologies:
- Lumen: The dynamic global illumination and reflections system ensures that light bounces realistically through the street and store interiors, enhancing depth and mood.
- Nanite: Utilizing Epic Games’ virtualized geometry system allows the project to manage the massive polygon counts required for highly detailed meshes (558 unique meshes in total!) without sacrificing performance.
If you want to see more of the studio’s detailed work, check out their portfolio on Artstation.
Modular Design and Customization Power
The true value of this pack lies not just in its visual quality, but in its exceptional modularity, giving environment artists and developers maximum flexibility. The developers included nearly 560 unique meshes, paired with high-resolution textures up to 4K.
Features Built for Efficiency
PropHaus designed the components for speed and customization. The modular design allows users to rearrange and combine assets endlessly, essentially enabling sophisticated procedural generation of unique town structures.
Key customization benefits include:
- Interiors and Exteriors: Buildings are designed with full interiors, and the assets are separated to allow for optimal culling or the creation of exterior-only shells.
- Highly Customizable Materials: Users can easily apply custom tillable textures for floors, walls, and ceilings. Furthermore, colors for interior and exterior walls are fully changeable within their material instances.
- Level Instances: The pack includes 23 pre-built building instances. This crucial organizational feature allows for easy, drag-and-drop placement, significantly speeding up level design and iteration time.
This careful optimization—particularly the heavy reliance on pre-built Level Instances—is key for maintaining smooth performance in large, detailed maps, even when pushing the limits of graphical fidelity with Nanite and Lumen.
Availability and Support
The Small Town Stores – Modular Pack is available for purchase on Fab.com. For those who utilize the pack and need direct assistance, PropHaus maintains an active community. You can join their official Discord for support and to connect with other users.
This high-quality pack serves as an exemplary showcase of what modern asset creation can achieve. For artists looking to push their photorealism skills, mastering asset integration is essential. If this showcase inspires you, feel free to dive deeper and explore more content focused on creating realistic worlds. You can also explore specific techniques, particularly how these assets leverage advanced Lighting & Rendering techniques to achieve their photorealistic look, or find more articles on Environment & World Building practices.
