Unreal Engine Developer Kit Now Available For Download… By Anybody
Epic Games and Nvidia have announced that the previously very difficult (and very expensive) to get your hands on Unreal Development Kit for it’s newest Unreal Engine 3 is now freely downloadable.
Even better, The UDK is free for noncommercial and educational use. For for-profit projects, licensing terms are 25% of all revenue over $5,000.
Start your engines, kids. Go forth and create cool stuff. The future is bright.
UDK includes:
- The Unreal Editor toolset, complete with fully integrated game editing environment.
- Unreal Gemini multithreaded rendering system with support for all modern rendering and shading techniques, advanced lighting and shadowing, ambient occlusion and a powerful material system for creating complex shaders on the fly.
- Unreal Lightmass global illumination solver for high-quality static lighting.
- Unreal PhAT visual physics modeling tool with state-of-the-art physics system powered by NVIDIA® PhysX®.
- Unreal Kismet, an advanced visual scripting solution that facilitates rapid prototyping of ideas and gameplay mechanics.
- AnimSet Viewer and AnimTree Editor, which give animators precise control over every muscle and bone movement.
- Unreal Matinee, which includes movie director-class tools for creating in-game cut scenes and gorgeous cinematics.
- UnrealScript, a fully integrated, high-level object-oriented programming language.
- Unreal Cascade particle effects system for implementing explosions, fog, fire and smoke. Module-based system gives real-time previews of visual effects.
- Terrain building tool for placing and customizing vegetation, structures and countless in-game points of interest.
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