Epic Games Releases Unreal Engine 4.8
""Unreal Engine 4"" "The name is
Unreal but it has everything real"
After gaining so much hits from the Unreal Engine 3 , the 'Epic
Games' released its fourth installation in the series and named it as 'Unreal
Engine 4' . Unreal 4 was released in May 2012 and its stable version is UE
4.8 which was released on June 10, 2015. It is written in C++, C#, GLSL, Cgo, HLSL
and UnrealScript is removed now.
The development of this engine was started in 2003 and this
news was revealed by the vice-president of Epic Games, 'Mark Rein' on August 17,
2005. The development of this engine was done by the team of 'Tim Sweeney' who
is the founder and technical director of
Epic Games. Before launching this engine, in February 2012 Mark Rein said
"people are going to be shocked later this year when they see Unreal
Engine 4". This little speech made everyone curious about this engine.
As the Epic Games says that this engine is for everyone, that's
why it is compatible with mostly platforms that are :-
1. Microsoft Windows
2. Linux
3. OS X
4. Xbox One
5. PlayStation 4
6. iOS
7. Android
8. Oculus
9. Rift
10. Ouya
11. HTC Vive
The engine is fully changed and now it comes with many
different features such as Real-time Global Illumination, New Developer Tools,
GPU Particles, The Engine Outlook and many more.
In the real-time global illumination, everything seems to be
real because of the new lightning model. Like, if you design a room with red carpet,
white walls and the sunlight streaming on it from a window then the Global Illumination
(GI) makes the light falls from one surface to another due to which walls looks
real and also red carpet will glow. Many Games have tried their best to make
this effect in the past but mostly did it by baking a static image of the
lighting of the scene onto the surfaces, but this also leads to a completely
static environment which again makes the game looks unreal. But the fact that
the Unreal Engine 4 is different from all because it does all this in real-time
is a game changes.
Now, in Unreal Engine 4 you will get new and flexible
developer tools which enhances the 3D graphical features and makes the
environment realistic. The developers can easily preview their games at any
instant with the full graphic quality and also can change or debug the code and
can pause everything . In addition to the developer tools there is a majestic
and upgraded tool i.e., Kismet visual scripting tool which provides a feature to
non-programmers to create a wide variety of behaviours in a game such as
colourful effects, sound effects, etc. So you can create complete games without
using a single line of code . For this, 'Mark Rein' said “What the new Kismet means for gamers is the artist's vision flows unfiltered to
them, because now the artist can do exactly what they want" .
THE VERDICT :
The UE 4 has superb graphic quality and its global
illumination is awesome. The UE 4 mainly targets the eighth generation of
consoles, PCs and Tegra K1-based devices running Android. And due to its Kismet
visual tool, everyone can make its dream game without using the code, the only
need is the IDEA of game. So don't waste your time in thinking and download
this or take monthly subscription for your compatible platform soon and start
making games of your choice.
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