Unreal 3 article on Gamespot

[lunitari]

I guess the Unreal 3 engine will be used on next-gen consoles, but what really caught my eye was this paragraph. It really does not make much sense. I guess if the detail was turned down to low and every bell and whistle turned off, it would be possible. Sigh.

"An even more pressing question is the kind of hardware you will require to run Unreal Engine 3 games. Next-generation consoles will have no problems with Unreal Engine 3 games, but PC gamers don't need to worry, according to Rein. He said that a video card based on an Nvidia 6600GT, the kind currently available for around $250, will be able to handle games based on the engine easily. However, by the time any games based on Unreal Engine 3 ship next year, those cards will have dropped in price considerably, meaning that PC gamers won't drop big bucks on upgrades."

 

[MisterChief]

Dude, you are REALLY behind. We all know about the Unreal 3 engine. I've known about it for about 7 months. It's not new, buddy, so go ahead and hop on the hype bandwagon, there's plenty of room!

 

[zakee00]

Originally posted by: MisterChief
Dude, you are REALLY behind. We all know about the Unreal 3 engine. I've known about it for about 7 months. It's not new, buddy, so go ahead and hop on the hype bandwagon, there's plenty of room!

must....resist...the....urge...to....flame

 

[MisterChief]

Originally posted by: zakee00

Originally posted by: MisterChief
Dude, you are REALLY behind. We all know about the Unreal 3 engine. I've known about it for about 7 months. It's not new, buddy, so go ahead and hop on the hype bandwagon, there's plenty of room!

must....resist...the....urge...to....flame

:laugh::thumbsup:

 

[lunitari]

Good grief. I was not remarking about the engine itself. I have known about that since first news was leaked months ago. I was remarking at the video card specs.

 

[MisterChief]

Originally posted by: lunitari
Good grief. I was not remarking about the engine itself. I have known about that since first news was leaked months ago. I was remarking at the video card specs.

A link would help. I'm really getting interested in this 6600GT nonsense! That's got to be some highly optimized code!

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: lunitari
Good grief. I was not remarking about the engine itself. I have known about that since first news was leaked months ago. I was remarking at the video card specs.

Some people just like to flame around here.

I bet they just mean in that article, that the game won't refuse to run on a 6600GT or anything. You'll just have to knock detail levels so low, it looks like the current-gen Unreal engine or worse, if you want it to be anywhere near playable.

 

[lunitari]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/03/09/news_6120126.html

 

[MisterChief]

Originally posted by: lunitari
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/03/09/news_6120126.html

Interesting...thanks for the link

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: lunitari
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/03/09/news_6120126.html

Sounds really cool.

 

[Fern]

The second demo showed off one of the newly-announced features of Unreal Engine 3--seamless level loading. Basically, the engine is capable of loading several levels simultaneously, so the game will analyze where a player is going and load the next level ahead of time. By the time you reach the new level, it will already be in memory. This means that, after the initial load to start a game, players will not experience any level loading at all.

I am SO ready for this feature!

Maybe the Unreal "4" engine will anticipate that I'm about to get fragged and reload for me too

Fern

 

[MisterChief]

Originally posted by: Fern

The second demo showed off one of the newly-announced features of Unreal Engine 3--seamless level loading. Basically, the engine is capable of loading several levels simultaneously, so the game will analyze where a player is going and load the next level ahead of time. By the time you reach the new level, it will already be in memory. This means that, after the initial load to start a game, players will not experience any level loading at all.

I am SO ready for this feature!

Maybe the Unreal "4" engine will anticipate that I'm about to get fragged and reload for me too

Fern

You do realize your gonna need like 5GB of memory, right?

 

[rise]

Originally posted by: Fern


Maybe the Unreal "4" engine will anticipate that I'm about to get fragged and reload for me too

Fern

lol, now there's a feature i could use

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: lunitari
I guess the Unreal 3 engine will be used on next-gen consoles, but what really caught my eye was this paragraph. It really does not make much sense. I guess if the detail was turned down to low and every bell and whistle turned off, it would be possible. Sigh.

"An even more pressing question is the kind of hardware you will require to run Unreal Engine 3 games. Next-generation consoles will have no problems with Unreal Engine 3 games, but PC gamers don't need to worry, according to Rein. He said that a video card based on an Nvidia 6600GT, the kind currently available for around $250, will be able to handle games based on the engine easily. However, by the time any games based on Unreal Engine 3 ship next year, those cards will have dropped in price considerably, meaning that PC gamers won't drop big bucks on upgrades."

He means the Unreal3 engine is going to be "friendly" to older HW. . . . in other words, expect a 9800p to play Unreal3's 1st games much like an 8500 plays HL2 (or even Diii) . . . .

The physics engine loos to be AWESOME:

an avalanche of more than 600 boulders rolled down the hill, each reacting realistically to collisions and each casting its own shadow.

and developers will LOVE it:

Unreal Engine 2 required programmers to write 90-pecent of the shaders used in a game, whereas Unreal Engine 3 will only require 5-percent of shader code to actually be written by programmers. The other 95-percent are already incorporated in the engine, where artists can take full advantage of it.

So, knowing what you know NOW, would you still buy a videocard TODAY that is NOT SM3.0 capable?
:roll:

 

[MisterChief]

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: lunitari
I guess the Unreal 3 engine will be used on next-gen consoles, but what really caught my eye was this paragraph. It really does not make much sense. I guess if the detail was turned down to low and every bell and whistle turned off, it would be possible. Sigh.

"An even more pressing question is the kind of hardware you will require to run Unreal Engine 3 games. Next-generation consoles will have no problems with Unreal Engine 3 games, but PC gamers don't need to worry, according to Rein. He said that a video card based on an Nvidia 6600GT, the kind currently available for around $250, will be able to handle games based on the engine easily. However, by the time any games based on Unreal Engine 3 ship next year, those cards will have dropped in price considerably, meaning that PC gamers won't drop big bucks on upgrades."

He means the Unreal3 engine is going to be "friendly" to older HW. . . . in other words, expect a 9800p to play Unreal3's 1st games much like an 8500 plays HL2 (or even Diii) . . . .

The physics engine loos to be AWESOME:

an avalanche of more than 600 boulders rolled down the hill, each reacting realistically to collisions and each casting its own shadow.

and developers will LOVE it:

Unreal Engine 2 required programmers to write 90-pecent of the shaders used in a game, whereas Unreal Engine 3 will only require 5-percent of shader code to actually be written by programmers. The other 95-percent are already incorporated in the engine, where artists can take full advantage of it.

So, knowing what you know NOW, would you still buy a videocard TODAY that is NOT SM3.0 capable?
:roll:

OMG, the ressurection of the SM3.0 flame war. Mods, nuke this thread before it spreads like wildfire

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: MisterChief

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: lunitari
I guess the Unreal 3 engine will be used on next-gen consoles, but what really caught my eye was this paragraph. It really does not make much sense. I guess if the detail was turned down to low and every bell and whistle turned off, it would be possible. Sigh.

"An even more pressing question is the kind of hardware you will require to run Unreal Engine 3 games. Next-generation consoles will have no problems with Unreal Engine 3 games, but PC gamers don't need to worry, according to Rein. He said that a video card based on an Nvidia 6600GT, the kind currently available for around $250, will be able to handle games based on the engine easily. However, by the time any games based on Unreal Engine 3 ship next year, those cards will have dropped in price considerably, meaning that PC gamers won't drop big bucks on upgrades."

He means the Unreal3 engine is going to be "friendly" to older HW. . . . in other words, expect a 9800p to play Unreal3's 1st games much like an 8500 plays HL2 (or even Diii) . . . .

The physics engine loos to be AWESOME:

an avalanche of more than 600 boulders rolled down the hill, each reacting realistically to collisions and each casting its own shadow.

and developers will LOVE it:

Unreal Engine 2 required programmers to write 90-pecent of the shaders used in a game, whereas Unreal Engine 3 will only require 5-percent of shader code to actually be written by programmers. The other 95-percent are already incorporated in the engine, where artists can take full advantage of it.

So, knowing what you know NOW, would you still buy a videocard TODAY that is NOT SM3.0 capable?
:roll:

OMG, the ressurection of the SM3.0 flame war. Mods, nuke this thread before it spreads like wildfire

somehow it just seemed to "fit".

Just couldn't help it

you think Unreal 3 will feature SM 3.0?

 

[MisterChief]

Originally posted by: apoppin


Just couldn't help it

you think Unreal 3 will feature SM 3.0?

It would be a travesty if it didn't

 

[VIAN]

All I have to say is....

wow.

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: Fern

The second demo showed off one of the newly-announced features of Unreal Engine 3--seamless level loading. Basically, the engine is capable of loading several levels simultaneously, so the game will analyze where a player is going and load the next level ahead of time. By the time you reach the new level, it will already be in memory. This means that, after the initial load to start a game, players will not experience any level loading at all.

I am SO ready for this feature!

Maybe the Unreal "4" engine will anticipate that I'm about to get fragged and reload for me too

Fern

I think the bigger question is why the hell didn't anyone think of that 5 years ago.

 

[DemonicPenguin]

http://www.1up.com/do/download?cId=3138759

Enjoy.

*Shaky cam videos, by the way*

 

[WhipperSnapper]

OK Epic guys, while focussing on pretty graphics, could you please remember to make quality game play a priority? What good is a new Unreal Tournament if the CTF game play sucks and pales in comparison to the original? Graphics are nice, but when the rubber meets the road, game play rules all.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: DemonicPenguin
http://www.1up.com/do/download?cId=3138759

Enjoy.

*Shaky cam videos, by the way*

Pretty cool, thanks for the link.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: WhipperSnapper

OK Epic guys, while focussing on pretty graphics, could you please remember to make quality game play a priority? What good is a new Unreal Tournament if the CTF game play sucks and pales in comparison to the original? Graphics are nice, but when the rubber meets the road, game play rules all.

TBH, who cares?
Let other developers license the engne and make kick ass games.I would rather Epic focused on the engine with EVERYTHING.
They out-sourced Unreal 2's development anyway.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
They out-sourced Unreal 2's development anyway.

Yeah, and it sucked.

Okay, I take that back - I did enjoy the game, but I felt that it was a completely unrelated game with the Unreal name tacked on to make it sell more, and that's what I wasn't happy about.

What I would like more than anything, is a true Unreal sequel with the new engine. I haven't seen any signs they're actually working on one though. It's basically a given that they'll do a UT2006 or something similar with the new engine, which I suppose is fine too, but to be honest I play UT99 a lot more than I play UT2004. If they can do a UT game in the new engine with the same fluid movement and control as the original; I'd be all over that.

As far as other developers doing games, I sure hope some nice titles come out using this engine - hopefully it'll at least enable a (relatively) shorter development cycle, in addition to graphics and other improvements.