I love the smell of UnrealEd crashing in the morning. – tarquin
Unreal Engine 3
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Unreal Engine 3 is a computer game engine developed by Epic Games. It is the third generation of Unreal Technology (UE3), designed for wp:DirectX 9/10 PCs, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
| Id actually say it was designed to be platform independent myself, unfortunately for Epic they are at the mercy of hardware vendors like MS and Sony |
Its renderer supports many advanced techniques including HDRR, wp:per-pixel lighting, and dynamic shadows, and builds upon the tools available in previous versions of the engine.
Epic has used this version of the engine for their in-house games Unreal Tournament 3, Gears of War and an improved version for Gears of War 2. Due to aggressive licensing, this current iteration has garnered a great deal of support from several big licensees, including Atari, Activision, Capcom, Disney, Konami, Koei, 2K Games, Midway Games, THQ, Ubisoft, Sega, Sony], Electronic Arts, Square Enix, 3D Realms and more.
Updates
Epic Games announced at GDC 2009 some improvements made to the Unreal Engine 3. These included
- High-quality static lighting with next-generation effects, such as soft shadows with accurate penumbrae, diffuse and specular inter-reflection and color bleeding
- The ability to add fracture effects to static meshes to simulate destructible environments
- soft-body physics
- Simulation of large crowds.
Non-Gaming Use
In addition to the game industry, UE3 has also seen adoption by many non-gaming projects including construction simulation and design, driving simulation, virtual reality shopping malls and film storyboards.
In December 2009, Epic demoed UE3 running on Apple's 3rd generation wp:iPod touch. They said that this will also support wp:iPhone 3GS, and also an unknown mobile platform set to be unveiled at CES 2010.link
Games using or licensing Unreal Engine 3
- Main article: List of Unreal Engine games#Unreal Engine 3
