Unreal Engine 4 Wishlist
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Native OpenGL support please!
Make the Mac and Linux people happy!
Since UE1 and UE2 had one, and UE3 runs on PS3, there's a pretty high chance of that happening.
I strongly doubt UT3 on the PS3 uses OpenGL. The Ps3 only support OpenGL ES 1, which isn't all that suitable for 'next gen' games. I'd anticipate it uses libgcw like everything else instead.
But only assuming that the API you're moving it to is suitable.
OpenGL ES is designed for mobile phones; not next-gen video games which is why I doubt an OpenGL renderer exists at present.
Pretty much all games are written with the bulk of their logic in interfaces in order to be API independant, this is nothing new. However, writing a whole new renderer for that interface to work with is no small task. In fact it's the bulk of the technical development of a game - it'll take a very large investment of time and ergo, money.
We haven't seen such a renderer yet, and UE3 has been around in the public eye for something like seven or eight years now. Hell, Unreal Engine 4 was made known to the public in 2005 - where it was stated to have been in development since 2003.
OpenGL ES is designed for mobile phones; not next-gen video games which is why I doubt an OpenGL renderer exists at present.
Pretty much all games are written with the bulk of their logic in interfaces in order to be API independant, this is nothing new. However, writing a whole new renderer for that interface to work with is no small task. In fact it's the bulk of the technical development of a game - it'll take a very large investment of time and ergo, money.
We haven't seen such a renderer yet, and UE3 has been around in the public eye for something like seven or eight years now. Hell, Unreal Engine 4 was made known to the public in 2005 - where it was stated to have been in development since 2003.
And the market is simply too small to justify the enormous cost of creating that rendering path - not to mention, at this time it might not be a sound investment since it'll take a considerable time to develop, by which time UE3 may well be beginning to come towards the end of its life cycle.
How come the market wasn't too small for all the previous UEs? And I highly doubt it's too small, the Linux market is really big, just that people don't see/wish to see that. Mac market exists just as well.
Previous UE's were considerably less complex than the current iteration. Consider as an example that to get a working port of UT3 in an equivalent it's PC/Console state, you'd have to rely on Linux's half-arsed PhysX implementation for starters.
Pretty much...I like to consider UE3 to almost be on par with Doom 3/Quake 4 technology in terms of having the same style of additive geometry. Although UE3 did maintain a subtractive engine, they really made the subtractive method a lot more complex than they used to. I've recently went to the additive engine, I just seem to have better experience with that method, I was big in mapping levels for Quake-based games, and recently went into Doom 3 mapping (Galacticus Prime was originally slated to be a Doom 3 single-player map before deciding to make it a UT3 DM), so additive mapping in UT3 just feels right at home to me.
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RAFLMFAO, I bet your fps was crappy! Oh and what res could you put the game in? Hehehe, why bother quoting such rubbish, i see this user was BANNED anyways. I'd ban him after that comment too!! Anyways, there a lot of things that come to mind for improvements but from what I have been reading, UT3 was the last. They are not going to make a UT4. Is this correct??
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Coming in like what? I "looked around". From what I can gather you want me to ??? I looked for an intro section. Could find nothing.
edit: In my email you state "I should look around before coming in like that"
Coming in like what? I "looked around". From what I can gather you want me to ??? I looked for an intro section. Could find nothing.
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I'd like to see them design the Unreal Engine 4 so that it can scale down and run a game with decent frames-per-second on an older computer, such as an earlier dual-core with 2 GB RAM and a lowly 8800 GT.
I'd also like to see them make it easier to build maps with the Unreal Editor. The file structure--the folder structure in UT3--was a nightmare. In contrast if you look at UT99 and UT 2004 it is very straightforward. Maps simply go into the Maps folder, textures go into the Texture folder, etc. I didn't like the "cooking" process either; it was never necessary to do that with the previous editors. To me it felt gummed up. This is an important issue because custom content and the ease of creating custom content is central to the essence of Unreal Tournament, IMHO.
I'd also like to see them make it easier to build maps with the Unreal Editor. The file structure--the folder structure in UT3--was a nightmare. In contrast if you look at UT99 and UT 2004 it is very straightforward. Maps simply go into the Maps folder, textures go into the Texture folder, etc. I didn't like the "cooking" process either; it was never necessary to do that with the previous editors. To me it felt gummed up. This is an important issue because custom content and the ease of creating custom content is central to the essence of Unreal Tournament, IMHO.
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The folder structure is quite good as it is IMO. It takes some time to adjust but it's nice if you need to reinstall the game - it saves all your custom content. The only thing I don't like is that travelling between stock and custom content folders takes some time, it could just be a subfolder in the main directory.