The Escapist Presents: Epic Games - UDK

[Rad Party God]

Wow now it seems that with this and other game maker programs the tools are there to forget all about coding but instead just focus on the content of the game testing and implementing graphics, sounds, and sprite and terrain interactions.

That was the original idea when they created the UE3 tools, they always said it, they wanted to make an amazing engine that's pretty easy to use and you could do your own AAA games with it.

Right now I don't have the patience nor the motives to try it out, but I have the limited edition of UT3 wich came in a black luchbox and it came with a DVD basically explaining how to mod the game, I think it's a long tutorial (I think the box said 24 hours).

I tried it out, but at that time I had my graphics card busted out and I was using a crappy card, so I couldn't test on bigger maps. But if what that tutorial explains in the fisrt couple of hours hold up to the end of the tutorial, then it's fairly easy to understand and use the tools.

Maybe I'll be using that until I get serious in studying to code things. =)

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

I would absolutely love to have a go with this, too bad my comp really isn't up to it.

 

[Weaver]

Good old Epic.

 

[Virtual_Dom]

Well I just downloaded source SDK, but this sounds pretty good. I haven't tried either so how good is Source? Where can I get UDK?

If you can't even bother to do a basic google search to find out where you can get UDK, why do you suppose you'll be able to get far anything at all? Rarely if every will ANYONE hold your hand during the learning process, if you can't even find the first step by yourself, that ain't a good sign.

Oh right I forgot about google. Thnaks for the...tough love

 

[duchaked]

whoa, so cool
and if people do start being able to bring stuff to the console, the indie game market could potentially be bigger

 

[Ca9ine]

I used to skin a lot for UT2k4 in the old version, and did a rifle mod for UT3.
I'm no coder, at all, but I found it easier than I thought to work with after I sat down with it for a while to learn.

 

[Darth_Dude]

That's awfully nice of Unreal to do this, although I forsee alot of junk entering the PC market...

 

[twaddle]

as soon as i get a new computer (which will be as soon an i find employment) i'm gonna tear that engine a new one. I only wonder if we can use it to create character sprites with it, or am i going to have to use another program to make the sprites. does anybody know? also does anybody know a good tutorial site over the web i can use to learn code?

 

[addeB]

I think I will try to learn this.