Unreal Engine 3 goes free and indie, Free for non-commercial use Options

[Gen]

Epic Games recently launched a free edition of their Unreal Engine 3 game engine, known as the Unreal Development Kit. It's a fully featured binary-only version of Unreal Engine 3, and it comes with a stripped down demo of UT3 as an example game, and the associated example content.

It has all of the features of the current version of Unreal Engine 3 (currently at 3.5, with their LightMass technology, and their new dynamic shadow system). It's totally free for non-commercial use, however for commercial use, it's $99 for a royalty supported license (no royalties are applied for the first $5000 of revenue), or $2,500 for a single development seat.

Bring on the shitfest of lame half baked 3D sonic fan games that don't even take advantage of the technology, faggots. (brb, restarting development of "Sonic XN: Oh god please, just no, not again, why do I continue to care about this project")

[Ultima]

Eh, Unity has been free for a month and we've not seen any of that :P I doubt a lot of people are going to bother making Unreal Engine sonic games :P

[Gen]

Eh, Unity has been free for a month and we've not seen any of that :P I doubt a lot of people are going to bother making Unreal Engine sonic games :P

Unity free is actually fairly gimped from Unity Pro (I would know, as I own and use a professional license from day to day, and has had to try to deal with Unity basic before :p)

This, however, is a fully functional binary license of UE3. It has all of the fancy new lighting they were showing off at GDC09 and everything.

[Ell678]

Eh, Unity has been free for a month and we've not seen any of that :P I doubt a lot of people are going to bother making Unreal Engine sonic games :P

There was that mod for UT2004, Ashura Dark Reign. Looked pretty good, they might think about porting it to the latest engine.

[Gen]

Eh, Unity has been free for a month and we've not seen any of that :P I doubt a lot of people are going to bother making Unreal Engine sonic games :P

There was that mod for UT2004, Ashura Dark Reign. Looked pretty good, they might think about porting it to the latest engine.

Last I checked, they were working on porting it to UT3. If they've managed to do that, then porting it to UDK wouldn't be too problematic for them (there's even a UT3 "demo" that comes with it, to show off the new features of UE3.5 in a familiar game).

[Shadow Hog]

I dunno about a Sonic game, but the first person to make a classic Quake-styled shooter in it will have my thanks.

Preferably a good one, mind, but eh.

[Ultima]

Eh, Unity has been free for a month and we've not seen any of that :P I doubt a lot of people are going to bother making Unreal Engine sonic games :P

Unity free is actually fairly gimped from Unity Pro (I would know, as I own and use a professional license from day to day, and has had to try to deal with Unity basic before :p)

This, however, is a fully functional binary license of UE3. It has all of the fancy new lighting they were showing off at GDC09 and everything.

Oh, I know, I was just mentioning it in reference to the crappy sonic fangames thing. I was thinking that since Unity free is reasonably powerful the same would have applied and it would've happened before if there was interest for that kind of thing.

This post has been edited by Ultima: Nov 6 2009, 02:29 PM

[Namagem]

Helloooooo Fangaming!

This is the biggest news in FPS modding since Quake 3 going GPL.

[Skaarg]

Eh, Unity has been free for a month and we've not seen any of that :P I doubt a lot of people are going to bother making Unreal Engine sonic games :P

There was that mod for UT2004, Ashura Dark Reign. Looked pretty good, they might think about porting it to the latest engine.

This was the first thing I thought of when I read the thread title. Unfortunately it seems like for a while ADR was kind of in hiatus. Seems like development has started up again though.

I really hope some awesome projects start up because of this. Maybe we can start one to do a proper version of Sonic 06. =P I'm pretty sure Sonic 06 used the Unreal 3 engine.

[Tadashi]

Helloooooo Fangaming!

This is the biggest news in FPS modding since Quake 3 going GPL.

Carmack promised that Doom 3 will eventually go GPL as well. Can't wait for that.

[Gen]

I really hope some awesome projects start up because of this. Maybe we can start one to do a proper version of Sonic 06. =P I'm pretty sure Sonic 06 used the Unreal 3 engine.

They used their own engine. I've poked around an extracted copy of the game, the asset structure is totally wrong for UE3, and not to mention they're using their own file formats for a good number of the assets. The thing about UE3, is that games made with UE 3 tend to have the "feel" of being made with UE3. There's only a few exceptions to this, such as borderlands.

As far as Doom 3, I'm hoping they release the latest version of idTech 4; the one with all of the fancy soft shadows and such that they've been using in some of the more recent Call of Duty games, and Wolfenstein.

This post has been edited by Gen: Nov 6 2009, 08:01 PM

[Phos]

I really hope some awesome projects start up because of this. Maybe we can start one to do a proper version of Sonic 06. =P I'm pretty sure Sonic 06 used the Unreal 3 engine.

They used their own engine. I've poked around an extracted copy of the game, the asset structure is totally wrong for UE3, and not to mention they're using their own file formats for a good number of the assets. The thing about UE3, is that games made with UE 3 tend to have the "feel" of being made with UE3. There's only a few exceptions to this, such as borderlands.

Or a more extreme example, Fatal Inertia.

I think I might mess about with this a bit.

[Damizean]

Eh, Unity has been free for a month and we've not seen any of that :P I doubt a lot of people are going to bother making Unreal Engine sonic games :P

I heard about Unity being free a few days ago, give me some time!

[Ultima]

Eh, Unity has been free for a month and we've not seen any of that :P I doubt a lot of people are going to bother making Unreal Engine sonic games :P

I heard about Unity being free a few days ago, give me some time!

Hehe, fair enough :P

[Gen]

Eh, Unity has been free for a month and we've not seen any of that :P I doubt a lot of people are going to bother making Unreal Engine sonic games :P

I heard about Unity being free a few days ago, give me some time!

No, fuck you, go with Unreal :p