Purple Cheeto
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UE4 has Blue print, which is their visual scripting engine.
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UE4 has Blue print, which is their visual scripting engine.
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
Hopefully; the current things locked behind a pro-paywall are fairly arbitrary and annoyingly limiting for fairly basic things (like anti-aliasing!) and come from a different time.
Yup, and with Blueprint you can mess with some things without even needing to mess with C++.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWbd0Wowwnk&list=PL6VDVOqa_mdNW6JEu9UAS_s40OCD_u6yp
Sparkedglory
Member
Well holy shit. This is awesome! I'm gonna have to download it later
RyanPierre
Member
Wow, looks like I picked the perfect time to start subscribing to UE4 (one week ago). Now I'll be getting a pro-rated refund plus that $30 in my account for being a subscriber. This is pretty great of Epic to do.
Very excited about what this new move does for the community. This isn't going to be something that will destroy Unity - some people just don't want to use/learn C++, but it should make for a large influx of people willing to try it out now that they can do so for free.
Very excited about what this new move does for the community. This isn't going to be something that will destroy Unity - some people just don't want to use/learn C++, but it should make for a large influx of people willing to try it out now that they can do so for free.
DarkLegion
Member
Cool, didn't know Unreal tournament was playable too! Found out when exploring the launcher you need for this.
Fusion Pizza
Member
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QBWg9pMnaFF-q0qjXPDEg
TeslaDev is pretty good for beginners.
https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?7693-Unreal-News-Weekly
This is a big list of tutorials.
Supposedly Unity was done for when Epic announced the subscription fee and open source but it's still going strong, I don't think this changes that.
I hope they throw a bone to us (their "loyal" customers") now that the competition is fierce though.
I've been using it for the past 5 months for my graduation project at my school and it's been a real pleasure for now. We are 2 game designers (myself included), 1 programmer, 1 sound designer and 4 graphic artists.
The programmer can code the core gameplay features while the other game designer and me can use blueprints for smaller tasks.
I can't wait to release something to the public
The programmer can code the core gameplay features while the other game designer and me can use blueprints for smaller tasks.
I can't wait to release something to the public
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
smokeandmirrors
Banned
Well I wanted to take a gander at the engine but didn't feel it was worth 20 bucks just to see it.
c++ is a big plus for me since it's what i'm most familiar with.
c++ is a big plus for me since it's what i'm most familiar with.
Succinct Verbosity
Member
This is only good news for gamers. I predict the return of B-tier games will be bigger than ever with this announcement.
Wow.. That's absolutely nuts.
I love it when companies do the right thing: build a user base and an army of people competent with your platform, let everybody have at it. Hopefully the more widespread and the experience with the engine, the higher the chances of it being used in successful projects that should bring some royalties.
And they are very generous with non-gaming requiring 0 royalties. Absolutely wonderful.
I love it when companies do the right thing: build a user base and an army of people competent with your platform, let everybody have at it. Hopefully the more widespread and the experience with the engine, the higher the chances of it being used in successful projects that should bring some royalties.
And they are very generous with non-gaming requiring 0 royalties. Absolutely wonderful.
Purple Cheeto
Member
I kind of doubt that. This is bigger for non game studios that need an engine for interactives/vr apps and for hobbyists. The royalty thing will still ward off a lot of small studios.
Thaumaturgic Tomato
Member
Wow this is tremendous. I was already tinkering with UE4 but this is a way over the top great unexpected surprise. Coupled with the recent addition of double sided foliage lighting and other 4.7 things, it's been a nice week of UE4 progress.
Cow Mengde
Banned
Wow, I'm gonna try it out.
Diablohead
Member
Most annoying thing for me in that screenshot is the hat, it gives off no shadowing to the head so it looks completely fake in contrast to the rest of his pre-baked gear.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
If you wanted to build a game from scratch; this theoretically has everything you would need, correct?
FonkyByNature
Member
Can't wait to see the next Gears of War running on UE4 !
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
This is the funniest thing Epic did : https://docs.unrealengine.com/lates...her&utm_medium=software&utm_campaign=learntab
Lol!
Lol!
Yeah I mean, you still need graphical assets, music, etc. but like Unity, UE4 has a marketplace to buy stock assets and you can always recruit or team up with artists.
SteveWinwood
Member
hey as long as it supports linux i dont really care about the engine
as long as you get your texture pop in working
as long as you get your texture pop in working
Fusion Pizza
Member
Yeah, they're are templates / kits / example games that come with the Engine, as well as quite a few starter kits on the marketplace as well. Learn blueprints and you can get alot done on your own to get started with.
The word "awesome" is so overused it has lost its original meaning.
Also, that horrible chromatic aberration
Jessie.Bristol
Member
God damn it! I should have waited. Just subscribed last month, so I basically wasted $20. What the hell. They probably decided to make it free with the 5% because so many subscribers were just unsubscribing after the first month (you can publish your game without an active subscription when it was paid).
Edit: What the hell? I apparently have $30 in my account balance with my Unreal Engine account. What can I do with it?
Edit: What the hell? I apparently have $30 in my account balance with my Unreal Engine account. What can I do with it?
They'll refund you for the sub since you payed after January.
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
You will get 30$ reimbursement to spend on the marketplace
Jessie.Bristol
Member
TheChewyWaffles
Member
That's awesome. Will save me $20 a month. I hope Unity will come down too.
Dictator93
Member
The word "awesome" is so overused it has lost its original meaning.
Also, that horrible chromatic aberration
"awe" "some"
Two word / word-particles with great historically interesting meaning. Lost to time, like tears in the rain.
tears in the rain has also almost no meaning anymore, god damn meme culture destroying everything
Bomber Bob
Banned
Well, not everyone can spend 15 years learning a language
lol
You can use blueprints which don't require coding itself. You still probably need to think like a coder, but you don't have to write lines and lines to get something to work.
Jessie.Bristol
Member
Yup, one of the primary reasons I chose UE4 over Unity (among other reasons). With Unity you either need to pay the license in full or get locked into paying $70 a month as opposed to $19 a month and being able to cancel anytime (and still be able to publish your game commercially).
It's more extensive than Unity, however Unity doesn't have a visual scripting system like UE4 does. Even if you don't know any coding you could make your own games using UE4's Blueprint scripting.
Erm, the 5% royalty is exactly the same as before.
That's really good to know. I got pretty decent at 3D modeling and texturing but never dabbled into coding. I think I'll give this a go.
That1BlackGuy
Member
Wow this is big for the industry, glad I don't have to worry about the sub anymore haha. Shame it doesn't support the Vita like Unity though.