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TseTse
10-16-2003, 12:29 AM
wow, it's out! Not sure this is the best place for posting this, as i suspect this is REALLY HUGE NEWS for 3d folks.

http://udn.epicgames.com/pub/Powered/UnrealEngine2Runtime/


Want to harness the power of the second-generation Unreal engine for your non-game application? The UnrealEngine2Runtime lets you work with the core Unreal technology without the video game trappings. Plus, it's free for non-commercial use!

In a nutshell...

This is a FREE version of the engine for non-game, non-profit use.

Anybody interested in some form of collaborative work for fun?

- a 3dirc community download, perhaps with some simple worlds and some really fun characters for folks to choose from?

- a 3d art gallery download, where folks can show off their 2d and 3d art... perhaps set some standards for coordinating a wider network of galleries?

LOTS of possibilities...

Maybe find some sponsors for a cgtalk Art/Community server for 32 visitors? :D
Keiyentai
10-16-2003, 01:29 AM
wow....thats kind of cool but whats the us of a game engine and not beaingf able to use it for one....it would be interesting for demos but kind of defeats the purpus since it was ment for game Dev....
TseTse
10-16-2003, 04:41 AM
Originally posted by Keiyentai
wow....thats kind of cool but whats the us of a game engine and not beaingf able to use it for one....it would be interesting for demos but kind of defeats the purpus since it was ment for game Dev....

for example... if i were a modeler or level designer looking for work... i could make my own 'demo' of my stuff on an independent build.

there are all kinds of uses for this technology beyond gaming.

Educational, artistic and perhaps even purely social.

I myself already plan to make a little art gallery type of setting, perhaps based on dali's narcissus "landscape."

Could add vehicles... and have people sit and chat in surreal environments.

Could make a real Sims-type moo/mud/irc chat community.

Could make virtual classrooms where folks gather to talk in various languages.

etc
Keiyentai
10-16-2003, 05:28 AM
I guess. THough not being able to plublish it kind of sucks imo
TheFreak
10-16-2003, 10:35 AM
Hey i think it's kinda cool. I for one would love to see some funky things come out of this. And just because you can't make money off the use of the engine you could still have a lot of fun playing around with it.

I for one havn't done any low poly modeling so maybe i should give this a go and see what i can come up with. I like the freaky gallery idea, Dali's stuff is pretty damn cool.

I'm in if we are making something with this :)

Ta
TseTse
10-16-2003, 02:53 PM
yea!

i figure that higher poly characters are viable within a non-game situation, if the world isnt nutso. without tracking projectiles, lots of movement, etc, i presume a lot of the load is removed.

typical ut2k* player is around 3k polys. 200-400k get rendered at a time in any given ut2k* map, seems to me.

just for artistic sake, id love to see folks find this as a way to make really nice characters in the 6k range.

unless you were trying to push the netcode and get more than 32 people onto a server, with extremely high detailed artistic environments... then you might want to back down a tad.
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