Epic To Show New Unreal Engine At The Game Developers’ Conference

8 responses to “Epic To Show New Unreal Engine At The Game Developers’ Conference”

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   Andy

   February 28, 2012 at 5:54 am

   And here I thought this as Unreal Engine 4
   

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      Blaghman

      February 28, 2012 at 6:21 am

      Really, even though it says Unreal Engine 3 in the title? 😛

      That video was made to show what was capable using the current version of the time UDK, and made to run in real time on current hardware. Admittedly, 3 580’s, but still.

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         Andy

         February 28, 2012 at 6:41 am

         Well at the time of seeing it months ago I just figured it was the next iteration of the Unreal Engine. Still will be interesting to see Unreal Engine 4. Especially considering nothing is fully utilizing Unreal Engine 3 yet. As evident by that vid and nothing released or coming looking close to it.

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            Blaghman

            February 28, 2012 at 6:53 am

            I’m honestly surprised that they’re calling it Unreal Engine 4. UE3 was designed to be a bit like the Source engine, and so its been iteratively updated. While the basic code base is the same, some of the stuff you can do now in it would be unthinkable in the original release of UE3.

            So the fact that they’re calling it Unreal Engine 4, means that it’s either a marketing decision, or that they’ve done a total overhaul of how it works, which means we could see features like point cloud calculation natively built into the engine. So, I’d expect it to be designed to run on hardware that would be infeasible in standard budgets currently, and to be optimised towards that end, whereas the UE3 is optimised towards lower end(by todays standards) cards.

            Sorry if this is a little meandering, I haven’t slept in a while.

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               Andy

               February 28, 2012 at 7:11 am

               That’s what I mean. By the above video it is clear that UE3 still has a ton of life in it. So if as you say they are completely overhauling the engine for UE4 it better be damn impressive.
               Makes me wonder how early the UE3 was shown before we actually saw any games using it released.

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               Blaghman

               February 28, 2012 at 7:23 am

               IIRC the first screenshots for UE3 appeared in 2004ish, and as far as I know, the first game released that used it was Gears of War, which was 2006. So, two and a halfish years. Which in computer terms is a fair while.

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               Chrustec

               February 28, 2012 at 7:54 am

               Actually if I recall, Roboblitz was the first UE3 engine game to be released. 🙂

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               James Mac

               February 28, 2012 at 9:49 am

               I’d say they’re setting it as the standard for the 720 and ps4… like 3 has been the standard for 360 and ps3.

               Personally, I’ve got a few improvements I’d like to see.