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Engine Development Credits

Unreal Engine Core System Design

• Tim Sweeney

Engine Development Management

• Daniel Vogel

Engine Technical Director

• Bruce Shankle

Engine Management System

• Steven Polge

UnrealEd

• Warren Marshall
• Demiurge Studios (UDN build on toolsets into UnrealEd)
• MathEngine (Karma SDK integrated into UnrealEd)
• LIPSinc (Automated Facial Automation Technology integrated into UnrealEd)
• OC3 Entertainment (Impersonater toolsets integrated into UnrealEd)
• Interactive Data Visualization (SpeedTreeRT integrated into UnrealEd)

Rendering Engine

• Erik De Neve (Main, scene graph, animation system)
• Daniel Vogel (Renderer devices, rendering pipeline)
• Andrew Scheidecker (Special effects, optimizing renderer)
• Sam Zamani (Shader pipeline, optimizing renderer)
• Demiurge Studios (UDN build on many rendering technologies)
• LIPSinc's Automated Facial Automation Technology (Real-time lipsync middleware, no additional cost)
• PixoMatic Software Renderer (High-speed performance software renderer middleware, no additional cost)
• OC3 Entertainment's Impersonater (Real-time lipsync and facial anmation middleware, no additional cost)
• Interactive Data Visualization's SpeedTreeRT (Real-time tree and vegetation middleware, no additional cost)

Physics Engine

• James Golding (Base physics)
  • With MathEngine's Karma Physics Engine (Middleware, no additional cost)

Network Engine

• Steven Polge (Unreal Network)

Sound Engine

• Creative Labs's OpenAL Audio System (Freeware)
• Ogg Vorbis (Freeware)

A.I. System

• Steven Polge (Unreal A.I.)

Console Porting

• Steven Polge (Builds 633~927 for Xbox and Builds 633~777 for PlayStation 2)
• Secret Level (Builds 777~927 for PlayStation 2 and Builds 777~927 for GameCube)
• Sam Zamani (Unreal Engine 2X)

Build Versions

• [Unreal Warfare] Builds 633~927 (32-bit Windows, 32-bit Linux, 32-bit Mac OS X, Xbox)
  • Unreal Warfare project is a cancelled
• [Unreal Warfare] Builds 633~777 (PlayStation 2)
• [Unreal Warfare] Secret Level's Builds 777~927 (PlayStation 2)
• [Unreal Warfare] Builds 777~927 (GameCube version only outsourcing from Secrel Level)
• [Unreal Tournament 2003] Builds 927~2225 (32-bit Windows, 32-bit Linux, 32-bit Mac OS X)
  • first released Unreal Tournament 2003 beta demo build is 927
  • first released Unreal Tournemant 2003 official demo build is 1077
  • first released out of box on Unreal Tournament 2003 build is 2136
• [Unreal Championship] Builds 927~2110 (Xbox Only)
• [Unreal Engine 2 CodeDrop] Builds 1077~2227 (32-bit Windows, 32-bit Linux, 32-bit Mac OS X, Xbox)
• [Unreal Engine 2 Runtime Edition] Builds 2226~2227 (32-bit Windows Only)
• [Unreal Tournament 2004] Builds 2500~3369 (32-bit Windows, 32-bit Linux, 64-bit Windows, 64-bit Linux, 32-bit Mac OS X, 64-bit Mac OS X)
  • Unreal Tournament 2004 engine is also known as: Unreal Engine 2.5
  • first released Unreal Tournament 2004 demo build is 3120
  • first released out of box on Unreal Tournament 2004 build is 3186
• [Unreal Championship 2] Builds Builds 2500+, v300~v313 (Xbox Only)
  • Unreal Championship 2 engine is also known as: Unreal Engine 2X

Engine Details

Rendering Technologies

• Direct3D 8, Direct3D 9 (Builds 3236+) and OpenGL, OpenGL 2 (Builds 3236+) support
• Hardware shader support for vertex shaders and pixel shaders
• Enhanced lighting
  • Real-time radiosity lightmaps
• Enhanced NURBS, scene graph, collision detection, and spatial data handling support
• Enhanced BSP/CSG and Portal world rendering technology and Scene graph and all Scene Management (Builds 2500+)
• Improvements very fast rendering engine speed (Builds 2500+)
• Improved texture compression
• Cube mapping
  • All texture mapping with cube mapping including environment mapping
• Dot-3 product bump mapping
  • With environment mapping (environment bump mapping) and with cube mapping too
• Advanced Weighted ClipTexturing
  • With all other texturing techniques
• Weighted skeletal animation
  • With smooth-skinned geometry (skinning animation)
• Facial animation support
  • Including scripted lip syncing and real-time lip syncing
• Large scale terrain support
• Seamless mixing of indoor BSP meshes, static meshes, dynamic meshes and terrain meshes
• Hardware Brush with static meshes, movable meshes, non-deformable meshes
• Emitter based particles system
• Heavily extensive emitter particles system (Builds 3270+)
• 2048x2048 size texture support
• 4096x4096 size texture support (Builds 2500+)
• Software rendering with Pixomatic software renderer (Builds 3186+, no additional cost)
• Interactive Data Visualization's SpeedTreeRT (Builds 3369+)
• Unreal Developer Network support on many other rendering technologies by Demiurge Studios

Other Features

• New designed network engine
• Powerful material shader and texture editor for UnrealEd (Builds 829+)
• Fast vehicles and physics optimized based network engine (Builds 3186+)
• Particles system wizard toolset for UnrealEd
• Included entirely new particle system editor for UnrealEd (Builds 3270+)
• UnrealMatinee cutscene toolset for UnrealEd
• Powerful real-time terrain editing toolset for UnrealEd
• Improving GUI editor
• Voice-over IP support (Builds 3186+)
• Text-to-speech support (Builds 3186+)
• AI speech recognition (Builds 3186+)
• Improved dymanic music system support
• New designed A.I. system
• Newly improving A.I. system, BOT A.I. and teamwork A.I. (Builds 3186+)
• 16-bit unicode support
• Include MathEngine's "Karma" physics engine (no additional cost)
• Enhancing "Karma" physics engine performance (Builds 3186+)
• Vehicles optimized physics (Builds 3186+)
• Support for Lipsync system of LIPSinc's Automated Facial Automation Technology (Builds 829+, no additional cost)
• OC3 Entertainment's Impersonater (Builds 3323+, no additional cost)
• 3DS MAX, MAYA, SoftImage's XSI Mod Tool (Builds 3355+) Plug-ins
• Enhancing Real-time recording of in-engine footage as replayable 'demo' files
• Support for processing those demo files into DivX movies (DivX library license separately)
• Support for processing those demo files into Bink Video
• Unreal Developer Network support on many other toolsets, utilities and sample contents by Demiurge Studios

Development Tools

• UnrealEd 3
• Ucc
• UccDepend
• UDebugger
• UPaint
• Karma Authoring Tool (Builds 829+, no additional cost)
• LIPSinc Animation Studio (Builds 829+, no additional cost)
• Impersonator Studio (Builds 3323+, no additional cost)

Projects

Announced Projects

MMOG Projects

MOG Projects

Released Projects

Unreal Engine 2 using released projects on more than 300 over titles, included all of the unknowned PC, Xbox, PS2, GameCube titles

Issues

• HoopWorld still based on Unreal Engine 2.5 with heavily modified and XBLA optimized from Virtual Toys
• BioShock not used UE3. that's used enhanced Tribes Vengeance engine. which heavily modified Unreal Engine 2.5 (PC, Xbox 360)
  • Actually, truly BioShock used UE2.5. NOT UE3
• Splinter Cell: Conviction is NOT UE3. it's still based on Unreal Engine 2.5 (PC, Xbox 360)
  • Yes, this is true

Wormbo: Stop the bullshitting already. True, BioShock development started with the Tribes Vengeance engine, but later switched to a modified UnrealEngine 3. This is even backed up by AMW's BioShock Interview Transcript:

AMN: Speaking of the graphics engine, it's running on Unreal 2.5 right?

Ken: No, we've moved to Unreal 3, we've done a lot of modifications on top of it, [...]

Spectator: Yes, Wormbo, you are right, but still issues now that, BioShock engine has not UE3's Ued Kismet assests.

MythOpus: Hence the term modified ?

Spectator: No, unknown yet.

Wormbo: Oh right, some random guy's statement is more relevant that the game developer's. :rolleyes: Let's settle on: "BioShock is a UE3 game that was upgraded from UE2.5 and doesn't implement the full feature set of UE3."

Game Programmer: I am a game programmer using the UE3. the BioShock engine is UE2. BioShock haven't UE3 features and UE3 UnrealEd. it have a UE2 features and system, modified UnrealEd 3.0 based on UE2.

Non-gaming Projects

Unreal Engine 2 Runtime Custom License is used in many non-gaming projects including construction simulations and designs, training simulations, driving simulations, educations, virtual reality shopping malls, movie storyboards, continuities, pre-visuals and etc

As of March 2008, more than 600 companies had a Unreal Engine 2 Runtime Licenses.

A Cases by

Licensees for Educations

• The Art Institute of Pittsburgh

Construction Simulations and Interior Designs

• Bentheim interior design

Multiple Licenses Companies (after 2008 at many titles)

• Amaze Entertainment
• City-Interactive
• FXLabs Studios
• Illusion (Japanses Developer)
• Groove Games
• Kingsoft
• Soft World
• Streamline Studios
• Gearbox Software
• 2K Australia
• 2K Boston
• Ubisoft
• 5TH Cell
• Chinesegamer International

Related Topics

• UnrealEngine2 Runtime
• Unreal Engine
• UnrealEd 3
• Ucc
• UPaint
• UDebugger
• Powered by Unreal Technology - The offical page for the Unreal Engine.
• Epic's list of Announced and Released projects using the Unreal Engine.
• Unreal Development Network – The official support site for Unreal Engine real-time technology.