Epic releases UDK for free

hamsterman · 11-06-2009, 04:13 AM

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Powered by award-winning Unreal Engine 3 technology, UDK’s feature set is packed with power and ease of use. These are just a few of the top-level features used by many of the world’s best game developers to create outstanding games.

Developing awesome games just became a bit easier.

Basically epic released all the Unreal Engine 3 development tools to use in non-commercial projects (for windows). The feature list seems quite extensive and includes things like artificial intelligence, physics, facial animation and much more.

Incognecron · 11-06-2009, 04:32 AM

Very excited.

Skee · 11-06-2009, 06:02 AM

I've been using the commercial UDK for a while now, and I feel I should warn you of a few things

Get ready to relearn everything, its the least intuitive system ever jesus christ. All the functions you would expect to be there ARE there, just hidden in odd corners.

You need 2 monitors. Seriously the general prop/actor/matinée browser will take up a monitor by itself easily

Save often. Unless you have an absolute beast of a machine and you get really really lucky, this thing will crash LOTS.

Don't forget to bundle all your custom resources into a package and don't forget to load that package when you start the editor up. You'll save yourself a lot of headaches trying to relocate and replace things you forgot to load in this way.

11-06-2009, 04:32 AM	#2
Incognecron T A K E N O P R I S O N E R S Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: heat seeka, tounge tweeka Posts: 5,024	Very excited. __________________

11-06-2009, 06:02 AM	#3
Skee Draws no no parts Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 5,664	I've been using the commercial UDK for a while now, and I feel I should warn you of a few things Get ready to relearn everything, its the least intuitive system ever jesus christ. All the functions you would expect to be there ARE there, just hidden in odd corners. You need 2 monitors. Seriously the general prop/actor/matinée browser will take up a monitor by itself easily Save often. Unless you have an absolute beast of a machine and you get really really lucky, this thing will crash LOTS. Don't forget to bundle all your custom resources into a package and don't forget to load that package when you start the editor up. You'll save yourself a lot of headaches trying to relocate and replace things you forgot to load in this way. __________________

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