Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free

Post by outworlder » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 7:19 PM UTC

cma wrote: post #77

outworlder wrote: post #63

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I was thinking about something like Lua. Now, the multiplayer map size limitation seems odd nowadays.

Mostly to do with floating point precision, the devs of Star Citizen ran into the same issue with Cry Engine when they tried to make things space-scale, and ended up initially stuck with small battle-arena maps. UE4 can re-origin things for a single player moving through a large world to maintain physics precision, etc. but it doesn't currently work with multiple people and their server model.

Post by zerr » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 7:22 PM UTC

Post by krick » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 7:24 PM UTC

robotresearcher wrote: post #54

Argorak wrote: post #8

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I don't see the reason for downvotes. The parent's sentiment is pointed, but has merit. It's initially doesn't cost anything, but if you want to charge for a game, it costs you. You also don't get many freedoms along with it, you gain no rights on the code and are bound to whatever Epic comes up with later.

Could you reasonably expect a more favourable deal on a world-class game engine?

Post by dragonwriter » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 7:32 PM UTC

GhotiFish wrote: post #87

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #26

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"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.

There seems to be a semantic argument going on here. As I see it, there are three terms at play - "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 m…

Post by agumonkey » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 7:42 PM UTC

krautsourced wrote: post #81

dualogy wrote: post #66

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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.

The whole "uncanny valley" idea is something that is related to virtual humans, not environments. But yes, agreed, dynamic lighting would make it more believable of course.