Page 1 of Unreal 4 engine goes free!

Sort of, if you make more than $5k a year from it you have to pay 5% royalties, but this is great news for the indie, research, educational and open source scenes.

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/ue4-is-free

Rather than struggling with third party engines, people can use a top commercial 3D library, which should mean better quality things to play with!


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Source Engine 2 goes free:
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/03/valve-source-2-engine/

Poor Unity might get left out in the cold at this rate.

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This item was edited on Saturday, 7th March 2015, 09:54

Downloading the UE now. Should be interesting to see if someone with absolutely no knowledge of game design can make something even slightly coherent.

4gb at 800kB/s. Think I'll put the kettle on

EDIT: having a bit of a mare with this. Once downloaded and installed, it takes an age to verify, and it keep completely locking up my system, to the point that only a hard reboot will fix it. It may have to be left alone, with absolutely no other programs or browsers open

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This item was edited on Saturday, 7th March 2015, 18:01

when I was at Uni some of my uni mates used the original unreal editor to make some custom levels, they did a US 30s  ganster city level, and characters.

I dabbled a few times but not being very artistic never got my head round it, but back then there was quite a scene, ppl doings ome great stuff. that level editor was different to most, as it was like you had a big lump of clay and you were hollowing it out to create the environment, I sort of got the concept, of making rooms, positing lights etc, but the on screen version was never what I wanted :)

Good luck, have fun.