Legacy:Unreal Engine Versions/2

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

Project	Developer	Release Date	Engine Build
Brothers in Arms Double Time	Demiurge Studios / Gearbox Software	August 21, 2008	Build 2227
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction	Ubisoft Montreal	Q1 2008	Build 3369
Red Steel 2	Ubisoft	TBA 2009	Build 3369
Samba de Amigo	Gearbox Software	Q2 2008	Build 3369

MMOG Projects

Project	Developer	Started Beta or Service Released Date	Engine Build
Sephiroth * Saga 1: 3rd Episode the Crusade * Saga 2: Becon the True	IMagic Entertainment	Open Beta Testing – January 14, 2002 Launching – August 27, 2003	Build 926
Lineage 2 * Saga 1: The Chaotic Chronicle (Chronicle 0): Prelude Chronicle 1: Harbingers of War Chronicle 2: Age of Splendor Chronicle 3: Rise of Darkness Chronicle 4: Scions of Destiny Chronicle 5: Oath of Blood * Saga 2: The Chaotic Throne (Throne 0:) Interlude 1st Throne: The Kamael ** 2nd Throne: Gracia	NC Soft	1st Closed Beta Testing – November 30, 2002 Open Beta Testing – July 9, 2003 Launching – October 1, 2003 (Korea) April 27, 2004 (North America / Europe)	Builds 2110-2226
Jinyong Online 2	Soft-World	Open Beta Testing – October 18, 2004 Launching – October 16, 2005	Builds 3339-3369
Vanguard: Saga of Heroes	Sigil Games Online	1st Closed Beta Testing – August 2005 2nd Closed Beta Testing – December 16, 2005 3rd Closed Beta Testing – August 12, 2006 4th Closed Beta Testing – December 16, 2006 Open Beta Testing – January 5, 2007 Launching – January 30, 2007	Build 3369
San Guo Online	Kingsoft	Closed Beta Testing – Nov 2004	Build 3369
The Chronicles of Spellbone	Spellborn International	1st Closed Beta Testing – November 30, 2005 2nd Closed Beta Testing – August 9, 2006 3rd Closed Beta Testing – March 23, 2007	Build 3369
Huang Yi Online	Soft-World	Open Beta Testing – May 15, 2006 Launching – November 7, 2007	Build 3369
Ragnarok Online 2	Gravity	1st Closed Beta Testing – December 27, 2006 2nd Closed Beta Testing – Febraury 23, 2007 3rd Closed Beta Testing – April 27, 2007 Open Beta Testing – May 28, 2007	Build 3369
Priston Tale 2	Yedang Online	1st Closed Beta Testing – Febraury 23, 2007 2nd Closed Beta Testing – June 8, 2007 3rd Closed Beta Testing – October 1, 2007 Pre-Open Beta Testing – Febraury 22, 2008 Open Beta Testing – Febraury 29, 2008 Launching – April 18, 2008	Build 3369
Martial Online	CATV NET	2008	Build 3369
Vanguard first Expansion	Sony Online Entertainment	TBA	build 3369
Dark Heaven On-Line	Frogster Studios	TBA 2009	Build 3369

MOG Projects

Project	Developer	Started Beta or Service Released Date	Engine Build
Exteel	NC Soft	1st Closed Beta Testing – October 26, 2005 2nd Closed Beta Testing – December 21, 2005 Open Beta Testing – January 18, 2006 Launching – January 25, 2006 – (Korea) TBA 2007 – (North America / Europe)	Build 2226
LandMass	WayPoint	1st Closed Beta Testing – October 11, 2006 2nd Closed Beta Testing – October 27, 2006 3rd Closed Beta Testing – December 26, 2006 Open Beta Testing – May 11, 2007	Build 3369
Stoneage2	Kingsoft	TBA	Build 3369
MetalUnreal(unnameed)	GameHi	TBA 2008	Build 3369
Crazy Shooter Online	Winner Online	December 2007	Build 3369
Mission Against Terror	Kingsoft	TBA 2008	Build 3369

Released Projects

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

Project	Developer	Release Date	Engine Build
America's Army * v1.0.0: Recon * v.1.0.1b: Operations v1.1.1: Operations (Marksmanship Pack) v1.2.0: Operations (Airborne Pack) v1.2.1: Operations (Map Pack) v1.3.0: America's Army: Operations (Mountain Pass) v1.4.0: America's Army: Operations (River Basin) v1.5.0: America's Army: Operations (Weapons Cache Special Edition) v1.6.0: America's Army: Operations (Radio Tower) v1.7.0: America's Army: Operations (Bridge Special Edition) ** v1.9.0: America's Army: Operations (Medics) * v2.0.0: Special Forces (Special Forces Assessment and Selection Process) v2.0.0a: Special Forces (Sandstorm) v2.1.0: Special Forces (Downrange) v2.2.0: Special Forces (Vanguard) v2.3.0: Special Forces (Firefight) v2.4.0: Special Forces (Q-Course) v2.5.0: Special Forces (Direct Action) v2.6.0: Special Forces (Link-Up) v2.7.0: Special Forces (Overmatch) v2.8.0: Special Forces (Coalition) v2.8.1: Special Forces (Overmatch) (Southern Methodist University Guildhall Map Pack)	US Army	August 28, 2002	Builds 829-3369
Unreal Tournament 2003	PC (Windows, Linux) / Macintosh – Digital Extremes	September 30, 2002	Builds 1077-2225
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell	Ubisoft Montreal	Xbox – November 17, 2002 PC – Febraury 19, 2003 PlayStation 2 – April 8, 2003 GameCube – April 10, 2003	Build 829
Unreal Championship	Digital Extremes	November 12, 2002	Builds 927-1018
Unreal 2: The Awakening	Legend Entertainment	PC – February 3, 2003 Xbox – February 10, 2004	Builds 829-2001
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield	Ubisoft Montreal	March 17, 2003	Build 927
Devastation	Digitalo Studios	March 28, 2003	Build 2110
Postal 2	Running with Scissors	April 14, 2003	Builds 926-1337
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3	Xbox – Ubisoft Montreal PlayStation 2 / GameCube – Ubisoft Shanghai	Xbox – Octgober 28, 2003 PlayStation 2 – March 23, 2004 GameCube – June 15, 2004	Build 927
Unreal Engine 2 Runtime Edition	Epic Games]]	October 31, 2003	Builds 2226-2227
XIII	Ubisoft Montreal	PC / PlayStation 2 – November 18, 2003 GameCube / Xbox – November 24, 2003	Build 829
Magic the Gathering: BattleGrounds	Secret Level	PC / Xbox – November 18, 2003	Build 829
Desert Thunder	Brainbox Games	November 18, 2003	Build 2226
Deus Ex: Invisible War	Ion Storm Austin	PC / Xbox – December 2, 2003	Build 777
Unreal 2 XMP	Legend Entertainment	December 10, 2003	Build 2226
Postal 2: Share the Pain	Running with Scissors	December 17, 2003	Builds 1407-1409
Shrek 2	KnowWonder	PC – March 3, 2004	Build 2226
Dead Man's Hand	Human Head Studios	Xbox – March 3, 2004 PC – March 18, 2004	Build 2110
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword	Ubisoft Milan	March 9, 2004	Build 927
Unreal Tournament 2004	PC (Windows, Linux) / Macintosh – Epic Games / Digital Extremes	March 16, 2004	Builds 3120-3369
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tommorow	Ubisoft Shanghai SinglePlayer Ubisoft Annecy MultiPlayer	PC / Xbox – March 23, 2004 PlayStation 2 – June 16, 2004 GameCube – July 20, 2004	Build 2110
Thief: Deadly Shadows	Ion Storm Austin	PC / Xbox – May 25, 2004	Build 777
Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Azkarban	KnowWonder	PC – May 25, 2004	Build 2226
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury	Zombie Studios	Xbox – June 15, 2004 PC – September 21, 2004	Build 2110
Spider-Man 2	Fizz Factor	PC – June 24, 2004	Build 2226
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow	Ubisoft Montreal	August 4, 2004	Build 927
Marine Heavy Gunner: Vietnam	Brainbox Games	August 22, 2004	Build 2226
Shark Tale	Amaze Entertainment	PC – September 27, 2004	Build 2226
[Tribes Vengeance	Tribes: Vengeance]]	Irrational Games	October 5, 2004	Build 2500
Men of Valor	2015	Xbox – October 19, 2004 PC – October 26, 2004	Builds 926-2017
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	KnowWonder	PC – November 10, 2004	Build 2226
Magna Carta: Crimson Stigmata (Japan / Korea) Magna Carta: Tears of Blood (North America / Europe)	Softmax	November 11, 2004 (Japan) December 1, 2004 (Korea) November 16, 2005 (North America / Europe)	Build 927
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2	Ubisoft Shanghai (PlayStation 2 / Gamecube) Ubisoft Paris (PlayStation 2)	PlayStation 2 – November 30, 2004 GameCube – March 15, 2005	Build 927
Star Wars Republic Commando	LucasArts	March 1, 2005	Build 2226
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30	Gearbox Software	Xbox – March 1 PC / PlayStation 2 – March 15, 2005	Build 2227
Combat: Task Force 121 (North America) America's Secret Operations (Europe)	Direct Action Games	PC / Xbox – March 23, 2005 (North America) PC – January 26, 2006 (Europe)	Build 2226
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory	Ubisoft Montreal (SinglePlayer / Co-op Mode) Ubisoft Annecy (Versus Mode)	PC / Xbox / PlayStation 2 – March 28, 2005 GameCube – March 31, 2005	Builds 3339-3369
SWAT 4	Irrational Games	April 5, 2005	Build 2226
Unreal Championship 2: Liandri Conflict	Epic Games	April 18, 2005	builds 3280-3323
Pariah	Digital Extremes	PC / Xbox – May 3, 2005	Build 3323
Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend	Running with Scissors	May 31, 2005	Builds 1410-1411
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Iron Wrath	Ubisoft Casablanca	June 10, 2005	Build 927
Advent Rising	GlyphX	Xbox – May 31, 2005 PC – August 9, 2005	Build 927
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood	Gearbox Software	PC / Xbox – October 6, 2005 PlayStation 2 – October 26, 2005	Build 2227
Land Of The Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green	Brainbox Games	PC – October 20, 2005 Xbox – October 26, 2005	Build 2226
America's Army: Rise of a Soldier	Secret Level	November 17, 2005	Build 927
The Regiment	Kuju Entertainment	Febrary 17, 2006	Build 2226
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials	Ubisoft Montreal	March 21, 2006	Build 829
World War II Combat: Road to Berlin (North America) Battlestrike: Secret Weapons (Europe)	Direct Action Games	Xbox – January 24, 2006 PC – April 3, 2006 (North America) PC – March 27, 2007 (Europe)	Build 2226
SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate	Irrational Games	Febraury 28, 2006	Build 2500
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter	Ubisoft Shanghai	Xbox – March 9, 2006 PlayStation 2 – March 28, 2006	Build 927
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45	Tripwire Interactive	March 14, 2006	Builds 3323-3369
Magna Carta Portable	Softmax	May 25, 2006	Build 927
WarPath	Digital Extremes	PC – July 18, 2006 Xbox – July 24, 2006	Build 3323
WWII Combat: Iwo Jima	Direct Action Games	Xbox – June 21, 2006 PC – June 25, 2006	Build 2226
Open Season	Ubisoft Montreal	PC / PSP / PlayStation 2 / Xbox / Xbox 360 / GameCube – September 19, 2006 Wii – November 30, 2006	Build 3369
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent	Ubisoft Shanghai (Offline mode for next-gen version) Ubisoft Montreal (Offline mode for current-gen version) Ubisoft Annecy (Online mode) Offline mode for next-gen version – PC / Xbox 360 / PlayStation 3 Offline mode for current-gen version – Xbox / PlayStation 2 / GameCube / Wii Online mode – PC / Xbox / Xbox 360 / PlayStation 2 / PlayStation 3	Xbox 360 – October 17, 2006 Xbox/PlayStation 2 – October 24, 2006 GameCube – October 26, 2006 PC – November 7, 2006 Wii – November 28, 2006 PlayStation 3 – March 30, 2007	Build 3369
Red Steel	Ubisoft Paris	November 17, 2006	Build 3369
Kung Fu: Deadly Arts	Bedlam Games	December 1, 2006	Build 3369
Brothers in Arms: D-DAY	Ubisoft Shanghai / Gearbox Software	December 5, 2006	Build 2227
Close Quarters Conflict	Direct Action Games	January 22, 2007	Build 3369
Redneck Kentucky and The Next Generation Chickens	City Interactive	March 2, 2007	Build 3369
Marine Sharpshooter 3	Jarhead Games	May 28, 2007	Build 3369
Surf's up	Ubisoft	PC / Xbox / Xbox 360 / PlayStation 2 / PlayStation 3 / GameCube / Wii – June 1, 2007	Build 3369
BioShock	2K Boston / 2K Australia	August 21, 2007	Build 3369
AGNI: Queen of Darkness	FXLabs Studios	Febraury 22, 2008	Build 3369
Marine Sharpshooter 4	Groove Games	June 10, 2008	Build 3369

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