#3darchive

[thiswilldstryyou]

No problem. I'm working on a modern styled roguelike thing and I ran into some limitations with UDK, and I'm sure I'd run into the same with Source. Found some good help with Unity. At the moment I'm working on creating tile-based dungeons out of pre-created tiles, and it's been interesting. I'm not a programmer, of course, so there's something. But I'm becoming one.Unreal engine games, with the exception of one (Borderlands) ran poorly on my slightly older laptop (it was 3 years old. Source and Unity games run smooth - of course Unity can run in a browser so you got that.Thanks again for the help.

Ah now for something like that I can definitely see why you'd want to choose a different engine. UDK is relatively intensive, and you can definitely appeal to a larger audience with another engine while still making it great. Good luck!

[thiswilldstryyou]

Well, UDK vs. Source then! While I like UDK's non-coding possibilities, and it's robust renderer, I'm finding the actual engine limited toward a certain style and speed of game.

I can see how you could arrive at that, however personally through using both, UDK always seems to come out on top when I'm comparing.

To put it as simply as possible, even though you don't have direct access to the source code in UDK (you do have some high level class access through uscript), working with Source is even worse in my opinion. Unless you have a seasoned C programmer that can interpret a AAA company's code, you're basically stuck either hacking(and most likely failing) Half-Life 2 into the game you want, or making very Half-Life 2 looking/playing games.

UDK doesn't give you access to source code, but look at what people have done with it. Whizzle, Dungeon Defense, I'm sure you've seen the UDK gallery. I'm only listing those because they're not anything like UT3, showing a major change in gameplay.

I didn't even get into the rendering capabilities of both, but like you said, UDK is obviously superior. Really it comes down to preference I think. If you want to put the work in, you CAN make a Source mod that looks as good as a UDK game. I don't know if you've seen the remake Robert Briscoe is doing of "Dear Esther", but I recommend you check it out to see the pinnacle of Source development.

Sorry for the novel, hope I said something to help you out. If you have any more questions feel free to ask!

[thiswilldstryyou]

Hey adinolfi. Thanks for the follow. I made the mistake - "New Camelot" is an ARG following a game I have in development. My personal tumblr, which is better reading, you'll find at theosbo.tumblr.com.Anyway, great work with UDK! I might have questions for you about that vs. source vs. Unity later.

Ah, I'll be following there then! And thanks! I should be able to answer those questions, so fire away whenever, although I know literally nothing about Unity.

[thiswilldstryyou]

hey man, thanks for the follow :) checked out some of the stuff you have been doing - looks awesome :D i especially like the vertex blending that you have working inside of UDK. i am an animator who only used 3dsmax, but we recently got told to try getting animations into udk and constructing our own custom animtrees. im in a team of approximately 12 people and we have 12 weeks to construct a fully working level in udk. kinda nervous, but equally as excited ahah. how long have you been using udk?

No problem! There aren't too many UDK related blogs on tumblr but when I see one I'm interested in I follow haha. I know literally nothing about animation, and some of the stuff I saw on your blog was really impressive. Where do you go to school? I assume it's for school, at least.

And to answer that last question, I've actually only been using the UDK for a few weeks. A friend and I are working on a level as a portfolio piece, so we're both learning as we go really. So far I've been doing most of the engine stuff and a little modeling (I just started learning max also so I'm still trying to get my workflow down) while he takes care of some of the more advanced modeling stuff. The things this engine is capable of...man I love it.

Do you guys have anything planned for your level? Regardless, I look forward to seeing it!

[thiswilldstryyou]

@raptordevitesse

Thanks! And yeah, I don’t know how familiar with the UDK you are, but that node network is how shaders are handled/authored in the engine, so that network is the shader network applied to the texture in the video.

[thiswilldstryyou]

I should've posted this a while ago...but it's something I was happy with. Almost. Haha.

[thiswilldstryyou]

I hoped to see the progress of your project, but you've been pretty silent. Does this mean you'll be posting again?

I've been focusing on working without trying to think about posting updates, but to be honest, work has slowed down a bit. I'm glad you're interested though. I'll try and put out an update soon, I really shouldn't neglect the blog for too long.

[thiswilldstryyou]

So, we got our latest news article posted on the front page of modDb, and on planet halflife. The article isn't really anything new, a lot more work has been going on, and I'll be updating relatively soon, hopefully today if I get a chance. But progress is being made, and I have some pretty cool stuff to show soon.