Unreal Engine 3 To Debut

KingFishKingFish
edited February 2005 in Science & Tech
Epic Games today announced it will be demonstrating Unreal Engine 3 tools and technology and headlining three speaker sessions at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco March 9-11, 2005.
Epic will be demonstrating their latest Unreal Engine 3 technology at a private theater in their Exposuite, ES2000 located on the second floor. This year’s demos highlight content creation for next generation console and PC platforms, including two major new features which will debut at this year’s conference:

Seamless World Support allows the creation of virtually unending environments through background management of game levels and assets. Even titles not requiring open world support will benefit from these memory management techniques on next-generation console platforms. Second, the new UnrealKismet visual scripting system empowers designers to build and iterate detailed game scenarios and AI behaviors with limited, or even zero, programmer involvement – thus providing a massive productivity gain over previous generations. Epic will also demonstrate significant improvements in physics, terrain editing, lighting, material editing, animation, cinematic creation and particles.

Come and see why Unreal Engine 3 will be powering several significant next-generation games from some of the industry’s top developers and publishers.
Source: ShackNews

Comments

  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    I'm drooling over this....
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited February 2005
    So it took like 5 years to develop the unreal2 engine, and a mere 2 years to get the unreal3 engine?

    I guess they learned a lot about efficiency during the development of the Unreal2 engine.
  • -Ben-Ben
    edited February 2005
    They would of been developing it while the unreal 2 engine was being made.

    Anyway it's all a fancy trick by epic to get engine licensee's. We won't be playing games on this engine for atleast a year, and then we will need super high end graphics cards to play it.

    There are alot of engines with unreal engine 3's featureset already in development and at the stage that UE3 is at now.

    Carmacks newest engine which he is going to show off at the end of the year has sprung to mind. I'm willing to take a bet and say source 2 is in the work(hell they are already rolling out small changes already so I think it's going to be a gradual thing for them)

    It's obvious that epic have positioned this as a cross platform engine with emphasis on consoles, the next gen consoles are were it's at.
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