#deep rift

[ikariokami]

A quick sketch between matches while grinding for that deep rift skin.

[alexandermuscat]

Moving Deep Rift to Unreal 4

I was very accustomed to UDK a years ago, off the backs of many years of modding Unreal Tournament games. However since picking up Unity 3D I never returned, and UDK with it's fairly rough tools and idiosyncrasies eventually fell out of favor.

After building Deep Rift in Unity, artist, friend and fellow GEElab PhD guy Will Owen insisted on moving to an engine with art tools 'better than Unity's hot mess'. Over the month what started as Will tinkering with UE4's art tools eventually became an attempt to convince me to also jump on Epic's ship.

So after Will's tireless pitching and properly seeing the gross improvements since UDK and general ease-of-use, I can safely say that our Oculus Rift submersible stealth / horror game Deep Rift is making the transition to the engine.

Deep Right has a simple enough design to translate and using Blueprint, the visual scripting replacement for UDK's janky Kismet. Impressively Will has already put together a steerable submarine prototype, made out of prefab tables, with working ballast controls and all.

I might document development as it goes (if I have the time) and I'm sure Will shall go into detail once his site is up and running. In the meantime the first results are promising and it's interesting to see Epic proving to be real contender to Unity.

And I have to admit, it's exciting to be using Unreal again.

[thisissirius]

tbh when i read about ~the deep rift in the band~ on ontd i ran straight to your blog to read what you had to say about it lol. what do you think happened?

tbh, i'm still emotional because i will always love them (SUMMER 2009!!!!!) but i just think, and this is based on the rumour that nick and joe have the rift, is that they've just moved in two totally different directions music wise and now trying to reconcile that as a group sound is just difficult. the two of them were always close, but they did have their differences within the family (things that were spoken about at length in the fandom when i was a part of it). i think it doesn't help that they've matured, but they've done it away from each other and it's always difficult trying to fit together again and make your different sounds, attitudes and maturity work together.i guess i have a lot of feelings about this and i'm sad, but if i really think about it, i'm not overly surprised.i always suspected them doing solo things meant the end of the band for good anyway, so i'm not surprised, even whole my 2009 self cries bitterly in the corner.