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nice. the thing i found odd is how the reflections/glare changes from simply looking around without moving. quite unnatural
Uncanny valley, if anything: reflections are supposed to change with a changing viewing angle and/or surface angle, whereas just camera movement has no immediate effect.
It's available at no charge, but it's not free.
Pretty amazing, really. I've been in graphics since just drawing a line on the screen of a $6000 (2015 dollars) computer was a big deal for a beginner; now you can get a seriously robust graphics engine for no cost, develop on a week's-pay cheap computer, and publish for $50 per $1000 revenue after you make enough to bother paying for.
No reason to whine, save for the sake of whining. You can still start with gcc if you like.
ETA: per another current thread, you can get a suitable Linux workstation for $89 http://symplepc.com/blogs/news/16853255-symple-introduces-th... Tack on a USB monitor for another $89, and you can write the Next Big FPS for $178 plus 5% of meaningful revenue.
The Unreal Engine is free neither as beer, or freedom. Its free as in a mob protection money is given freely , with a lot of strings attached. Overall a very smart strategy. Free Software Walled Gardens I highly believe will start to become a common thing in the software industry. As you get most the benefits of Free Software, without the normally feared industry risks.
I'm very glad of course but... ...technically all they did was lower the price by $19 a month. ...and bought a lot of press for that ...and a lot more shots at the 5% revenue. It's really great of course. But better yet, it's really very clever.
The last barrier to entry to someone who's trying to explore game making with Unreal has been removed. Thank you, Epic!
What a great way to handle it.
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It's free enough for most hobbyist game developers, many of whom will never make enough (or anything at all, really) from their games to matter. You want ideological purity? Go write your own system.
"Ideological purity" is irrelevant. The point here is that people are abusing terminology to create ambiguity. As we are talking about software, the term "free" has specific connotations that differ from everyday language. UE4 is a source-available, gratis game engine. This is fine. It is not open source, nor is it free or libre.
- "Open source"
- "Free"
- "Libre"
and again, as I see it, they all have mutually exclusive definitions. ie.
- the source is available to see and compile
- the project may be used without financial expense
- you may do with this project, and its source code, what you will (and personally I accept the restriction that you must preserve that right for others as not compromising this.)
under these definitions, I would now call the UE4 engine free and open source. I would not call it libre.
Do you object to any of these definitions?
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It's hard to compare unity and unreal. To answer the question about c++, with UE4, the blueprint system removes almost all of that. Entire games can be written in their visual programming language. I also think there are ways to use c# ( https://mono-ue.github.io/ ), if you prefer that as well. C++ is needed if you want to extend the native classes. Regarding the editor, unreal is pretty amazing. It really shines in…
I was thinking about something like Lua. Now, the multiplayer map size limitation seems odd nowadays.
I believe there's also some hard coded limits around the number of simultaneous players (16?), though it seems fairly easy to work around. Again, not sure about performance.
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