My favourite items:
- Improved GC
- DX 12 support for PC and XBox ONE
- Metal as default render for El Capitan onwards
Unreal Engine 4.11 Released
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Re: Unreal Engine 4.11 Released
#12Same link as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11400124 but with now 11 points? How is this possible? EDIT: I'm asking because the dupe check seems to be broken.
Bad timing ; interested people missed your link but were there when this one popped up. Try again next time.
Also link sharing, people who submit stuff might often also send it to their friends.
Re: Unreal Engine 4.11 Released
#13Another great example of positive impact of open sourcing. They open sourced unreal engine some time ago, thanks to that we see 92 changes from community alone in this release.
Re: Unreal Engine 4.11 Released
#14Re: Unreal Engine 4.11 Released
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why shouldn't it be possible? Edit: Ahh, I see now that you posted the previous link.
People think HN has some dupe detection. People expect it to catch identical URLs.
HN has a dupe detection. That's why I'm wondering what's going on. It seems to be a bug.
When I submit something that is already there the systems gives an upvote and doesn't register it as a second post.
But not this time.
Re: Unreal Engine 4.11 Released
#16Same link as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11400124 but with now 11 points? How is this possible? EDIT: I'm asking because the dupe check seems to be broken.
Bad timing ; interested people missed your link but were there when this one popped up. Try again next time.
No, HN normally recognizes dupes.
Re: Unreal Engine 4.11 Released
#17It's interesting that Unreal releases end up always on the front page, but when Crytek released the source code of Cryengine 5 for free ~3 weeks ago [1] (with DX12, official C# bindings, volumetric clouds, no royalties, even better renderer, VR support for all major VR headsets, Python scriptable editor based on QT, a humble bundle including Ryse assets etc.) it didn't even scratch the front page.
I know most people prefer Unreal for ease of use, documentation etc. but I also read often that they like the technology of Cryengine better (real time GI (SVOTI), better performance, better skin and eye shader for example), so I would have thought that the free source code release would stir things up.
Yes, Unreal released the full source code long ago, so they (Crytek) are late to the party, and the marketing of Crytek is... not the best (to put it kindly), but why is it that the Cryengine 5 release was not really discussed on HN?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11294763 [1 comment --> I myself]
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Re: Unreal Engine 4.11 Released
#18Holy crap, the "New Realistic Eye Shading" is insane:
The shading model approximates subsurface scattering
through the sclera, caustics on the iris and specular on
the wet layer. To be used in conjunction with the
provided eye material and eyeball geometry. Together
these additionally model the refraction through the
cornea, darkening of the limbal ring, with controls for
dilating the pupils.
Re: Unreal Engine 4.11 Released
#19Has anybody tested this version on a late 2012 iMac with 3.4 GHz i7?
I've tried the previous versions and the CPU temperature is rising very quickly.
A 2012 iMac is ancient. Are current systems getting hot as well?
Re: Unreal Engine 4.11 Released
#20Unreal has Unity beat in my mind simply because the Unreal developers are actually building games with their engine (Paragon), which really puts the code through it's paces and makes for a far better testing environment than an artificial demo or two from Unity, that doesn't represent what a full game really uses resource wise per frame.
This can definitely be seen in the usability of the software alone, where Unity suffers some poor interface issues alongside poor performance problems.