Isn't that the schtick?
Unreal Engine 4
- Thread starter Dominik D
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Kismet is available in the udk if anyone wants to play around with it
http://www.unrealengine.com/en/features/kismet/
http://www.unrealengine.com/en/features/kismet/
L. Scofield
Veteran
New presentation:
http://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2013-shading-course/karis/s2013_pbs_epic_slides.pdf
The most interesting part to me is about the area lights. Unlike the methods of other engines like KZSF's and CryEngine 3, UE4 supports area-omni lights, instead of just area-spot lights.
http://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2013-shading-course/karis/s2013_pbs_epic_slides.pdf
The most interesting part to me is about the area lights. Unlike the methods of other engines like KZSF's and CryEngine 3, UE4 supports area-omni lights, instead of just area-spot lights.
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Yeah increasingly both offline and real-time rendering seem to be moving in the direction of area lights as "good enough" with true GI/indirect lighting being far less important. I spoke with some offline rendering folks last year that told me that artists primarily use GI to do area-light type things (by shining point lights on a wall, etc) anyways.
Cool presentation.
Cool presentation.
Unreal Engine 4 available today with full source code for 19$/month : https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/welcome-to-unreal-engine-4
Didn't see it coming
Huge news !
Didn't see it coming
Huge news !
That's like music to my ears!
Unreal Engine 4 available today with full source code for 19$/month : https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/welcome-to-unreal-engine-4
Didn't see it coming
Huge news !
This is interesting. I wonder why they do this as now everyone, including their competitors can get the source code? I would have thought that if your main income source is a game engine, you try to keep the secrets of that engine as hidden as possible.
Are they targeting Unity with this change?
That's like music to my ears!
A Davrosesque joke based on one of Davros's posts… not bad, not bad!
Unity is not open source, but the basic version is free (i.e. the one without dynamic shadows, the performance profiler, etc.).
Certainly wouldn't mind if other developers would start to use their new temporal antialiasing method, it looks very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unzI-DpWl3Q
It's a weird plan. Many devs stick to the feature-set offered by the engine in use without implementing most updates once they start production so that things don't break form underneath their feet. Isn't it pretty viable to just pay one month of subscription and then just work with that?
Giving access to source code is not completely new though. All AAA games that license the full engine do get access to it, and that's how they get to implement their own features and optimizations.
Giving access to source code is not completely new though. All AAA games that license the full engine do get access to it, and that's how they get to implement their own features and optimizations.
Looks very nice that's for sure.
Ati:s temporal AA was just switching sample locations between frames.
Doesn't really work well with all monitors and wasn't gamma correct.
These new ones are re-projection methods in which each frame the sample positions are changed and combined 'properly' with old information.
Something like this.
http://bartwronski.com/2014/03/15/temporal-supersampling-and-antialiasing/
The license agreement will probably say that you're not allowed to develop unless your $20 free has been paid for for a particular month. Yes, it's easy to violate that, most American companies are not going to do that for just $20 per developer.
Besides, I don't think they'll expect this $20 to be a meaningful revenue source. It's probably a deliberate minor hurdle to ensure that their support lines don't get overwhelmed with amateurs for whom even $20 is too much.
firstminion
Newcomer
It's $20 for source code, $20/month for support and a 5% tax for anything you do release. Not bad at all.