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03/19/14 22:56
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https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/welcome-to-unreal-engine-4kind of awesome. unreal engine 4 (it's not the UDK!) is in a similar price category as gamestudio now. for the price of one gamestudio pro edition you can use the unreal engine for 4 years. (edit: seems you can even quit the 20$ per month subscription and continue using the current version you have - you just don't get updates anymore.) a pretty tough competition between unreal and unity seems to be starting. valve seems to go into a similar direction too with their upcoming new source engine. edit: cryengine is 10$ per month. the unity forum is very funny at the moment.
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Re: unreal engine 4
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03/20/14 07:56
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sivan
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thanks, this is brutal. is that true that no Unrealscript in UE4? as I see yes, only C++ with visual studio is mentioned in the programming guide, which is great. I just thought of making a trial again with UDK or with CryEngine, but Cryengine's graphics asset importing pipeline is more restricted (requires a recent Photoshop and Max or Maya). let's see Unity's answer. and of course of 3DGS cryengine 9.90USD/EUR/month: http://cryengine.com/news/crytek-announces-its-cryengine-as-a-service-program
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Re: unreal engine 4
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03/20/14 08:45
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This is really great. Maybe I take a look at it. And I should recheck Cryengine, if you say the have licences for 10$/month now.
EDIT: there's no trial version Unreal Engine 4 yet. So I will wait until my current project is finished (in 2 months) because it doesn't make sense for me to purchase it for 19 EUR per month and only have time for testing in my spare time.
Last edited by oliver2s; 03/20/14 08:54.
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Re: unreal engine 4
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03/20/14 09:56
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This is fantastic news - add this to the Havoc engine being free for mobile development and you have a totally new market. I'm curious though why they did come up with this just now. Why wasn't this possible say 10 years ago?
Last edited by Toast; 03/20/14 09:56.
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Re: unreal engine 4
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03/20/14 11:44
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Hm well right now they basically bombed Unity 5 off the planet - I mean, seriously, when you're going to choose an engine to pay monthly fees for, I can't really see the point of paying 75$ per month for Unity without source code access when you can get Unreal with source code access for 20$. I mean, come on. Of course, the UDK was a fucking mess to work with compared to Unity so far, but judging from all the footage showing the new workflow that Epic released so far, I think they really upped the game in that regard. Especially the videos showing one of their artists presenting what he made in a few hours without any real programming skills look incredible in that regard, the results honestly look better than a lot of what hobby devs manage to do with Unity in weeks. And technically, well, there's nothing to talk about, UE4 IS one of the big guys, along with Frostbite and Cryengine, and hopefully Source 2 when it's revealed, and Unity has always been a rough approximation of these big players. My biggest fear is that we'll now get a wave of crappy "Indie-" titles based on Unreal, just like as we got and still get due to Unity, that actually are nothing more than really bad hobby pojects.
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