Unreal Development Kit (UDK) Beta (December 2010)
UDKInstall-2010-12-BETA.exe
Here's the free, updated Unreal Development Kit powered by Unreal Engine 3. Now with iOS support! This kit provides access to the award-winning toolset used in blockbuster video games, 3D visualizations, digital films and more.The December UDK Beta includes new tools for making iOS games and apps, such as Epic's free "Epic Citadel" App, which has been downloaded to more than 1.5 million iOS devices.
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Experience the power and potential of Unreal Engine 3. Create amazing games, lifelike scenes and fantastic worlds... for free.
What is it?
UDK is Unreal Engine 3 the complete professional development framework. All the tools you need to create great games, advanced visualizations and detailed 3D simulations. The best tools in the industry are in your hands.
Who's it for?
Anyone. Everyone. You. Unreal Engine 3 has been used by game developers, researchers, television studios, machinima directors, artists and students. If you have an idea that needs to be brought to life in a game engine, UDK is for you.
Why UDK?
Only UDK has the power, flexibility and track record of Unreal Engine 3. These tools have been proven with countless releases and dozens of awards. There is no better way to make awesome games than with UE3.
Official UDK ReadMe
NEW! iOS Support
Brand new features and content that users will immediately notice are:
Build levels, visually script gameplay events and add visual effects for mobile applications using the Unreal Editor and its major tools, including Unreal Kismet, Unreal Cascade and Unreal Matinee.
Superior rendering features for mobile development, including Unreal Lightmass global illumination accelerated by Unreal Swarm distributed computing.
The full source and content for the Epic Citadel App, plus an additional castle demo map.
UDK Remote: A handy tool that enables iOS devices to serve as wireless controllers with full touch and tilt functionality for testing games on the computer.
New Unreal Frontend system compiles scripts and deploys builds for multiple platforms with the simple click of a button.
Mobile Previewer: Preview your application locally using a fully feature OpenGL ES 2.0 renderer with mobile input simulated.
One-click Deployment: Easily deploy your application from the Unreal Editor to your iOS device with only one click.
Next-gen Mobile Graphics: UDK's highly optimized mobile renderer has support for per-pixel lighting, environment mapping, precomputed visibility and more! And of course, Unreal Lightmass computes stunning light and shadows to bring your scene to life.
Unreal Kismet Visual Scripting: Artists and level designers can string together actions, inputs and events in Unreal Kismet to dictate how the world flows and how the player interacts without having to touch a single line of code.
iOS Feature List
Base UE3 Features
Highly shippable, proven engine core
Unreal Editor: Almost entire editor is supported
Unreal Lightmass: Global illumination, ambient occlusion and more
Unreal Swarm for distributed lighting builds
UnrealScript dynamic scripting language
Unreal Kismet visual scripting
Pathfinding and navigation meshes
Unreal Matinee cinematics tools
Unreal Cascade particle designer
Mesh painting tools
Canvas-based UI rendering
Unreal Content Browser asset manager
Full support for Autodesk FBX file format
Unreal animation system (AnimTrees, additive animations, blending, etc.)
Play In Editor, one-click game preview
Real-time inverse kinematics
BSP level construction system
Crowd system
Level-Of-Detail systems, including Massive LOD
Performance and memory profiling tools
Mesh simplification tool
Texture unwrapping and LOD generation tools
Perforce source control support
Physics and collision systems
Unreal Frontend tool for launching/packaging your game
Unreal Console lets you connect to mobile apps, issue commands and view logs
64-bit tools allow for huge data sets
Mobile
Portrait and landscape modes fully supported
Multi-touch control support including tilt/gyroscope
Touch-based look controls, gesture support
New mobile "input zone" system
Unreal Kismet and UnrealScript support for mobile input
Mobile input emulation on PC
Basic UI system based on canvas, with simple buttons/sliders
Movie playback
Engine
Fast performing iOS game engine
Level streaming with asynchronous loading
Share assets between multiple platforms
Mobile shader precaching/warming for hitch-free gameplay
Unreal Lightmass normal map baking
Precomputed Visibility system with Unreal Matinee path support
Cooker generates optimized minimum set of shaders based on game usage
Sound and music playback using OpenAL
3D sound spatialization (stereo output)
Asynchronous music streaming
Tools
Mobile Previewer for PC with nearly 1:1 graphics preview
UDK Remote for previewing mobile input on PC using iOS device
Movie generation tools with authentic mobile-style graphics
Capture screenshots and movies from device
Preview iOS device resolutions, system settings and landscape/portrait from editor
Graphics
State of the art graphics features on mobile
Flexible material system generates highly optimized OpenGL ES2 shaders
Real-time shadows (planar)
Particle systems
Bump offset mapping
Skeletal animation
Shading
Real-time per-pixel lighting
Normal mapping
Specular lighting, including per-pixel specular
Dynamic lighting (movable, animated lights)
Animated materials
Translucency, opacity masks
Rim lighting
Fresnel effects
Texture blending
Vertex coloring (paintable meshes)
Emissive lighting
Vertex deformation (foliage, cloth rendering)
Environment mapping
Baked ambient occlusion (skeletal meshes)
Water surface effects
Masking for emissive, environment maps, rim lights and more
Decals
Static mesh rendering
Non-uniformly scaled objects
Automatic Texture Flattening tool
Atmospheric fog
Tools
New Unreal Frontend UI
UFE now supports multiple profiles. A profile is a collection of settings for cooking, syncing, and launching that makes switching between projects and configurations a breeze.
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UnrealFrontend
Unreal Editor
A vertex color matching tool was added. It allows re-imported meshes to have their hand-painted vertex color paint refitted.
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/ContentBlog#Vertex color matching tool
Unreal Kismet
A new Kismet action, ProjectileFactory, was added. It allows spawning projectiles w/ muzzle flashes from a skeletal mesh socket or bone in Kismet.
Note: This build only supports 2 bones per vertex for mobile games. The next build will remove this limitation.
UDN Pages
New:
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MobileHome
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/GettingStartedMobile
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/GettingStartediOSDevelopment
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/AppleiOSProvisioning
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/AppleiOSProvisioningPortal
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/AppleiOSProvisioningSetup
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UnrealiPhonePackager
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UnrealOnMobile
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UnrealOniOS
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/GameCenter
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/DesigningForMobile
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MobileMaterialReference
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MobileTextureReference
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MobileInputSystem
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MobileAudioSystem
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MobileSystemSettings
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MobilePreviewer
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/DistributionAppleiOS
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/FullScreenMovieApple_iOS
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UDKRemote
Updated:
http://udn.epicgames.com//Three/PrecomputedVisibility
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UnrealFrontend
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MaterialsCompendium
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/CodingStandard
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/ScaleformTechnicalGuide
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UnrealScriptReference
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/DevelopmentKitFirstScriptProject
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/HUDTechnicalGuide
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/CanvasTechnicalGuide
PC specs
Minimum:
* Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
* 2.0+ GHz processor
* 2 GB system RAM
* SM3-compatible video card
* 3 GB Free hard drive space
Recommended for Content Development:
* Windows Vista 64 SP2
* 2.0+ GHz multi-core processor
* 8 GB System RAM
* NVIDIA 8000 series or higher graphics card
* Plenty of HDD space
UDK Screenshots
Download a free game made with UDK and a UDK showcase demo, and view a couple of trailers here.
Additional documentation, code samples and more are available at the Unreal Developer Network (UDN):
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/DevelopmentKitHome.html
Community Links
UDK Forums: www.udk.com/forums
UDK Developers on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2493123
UDK on Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/UDK/183744733429
Epic Games on Twitter: www.twitter.com/EpicGames
Full Changelog
What is it?
UDK is Unreal Engine 3 the complete professional development framework. All the tools you need to create great games, advanced visualizations and detailed 3D simulations. The best tools in the industry are in your hands.
Who's it for?
Anyone. Everyone. You. Unreal Engine 3 has been used by game developers, researchers, television studios, machinima directors, artists and students. If you have an idea that needs to be brought to life in a game engine, UDK is for you.
Why UDK?
Only UDK has the power, flexibility and track record of Unreal Engine 3. These tools have been proven with countless releases and dozens of awards. There is no better way to make awesome games than with UE3.
Official UDK ReadMe
NEW! iOS Support
Brand new features and content that users will immediately notice are:
Build levels, visually script gameplay events and add visual effects for mobile applications using the Unreal Editor and its major tools, including Unreal Kismet, Unreal Cascade and Unreal Matinee.
Superior rendering features for mobile development, including Unreal Lightmass global illumination accelerated by Unreal Swarm distributed computing.
The full source and content for the Epic Citadel App, plus an additional castle demo map.
UDK Remote: A handy tool that enables iOS devices to serve as wireless controllers with full touch and tilt functionality for testing games on the computer.
New Unreal Frontend system compiles scripts and deploys builds for multiple platforms with the simple click of a button.
Mobile Previewer: Preview your application locally using a fully feature OpenGL ES 2.0 renderer with mobile input simulated.
One-click Deployment: Easily deploy your application from the Unreal Editor to your iOS device with only one click.
Next-gen Mobile Graphics: UDK's highly optimized mobile renderer has support for per-pixel lighting, environment mapping, precomputed visibility and more! And of course, Unreal Lightmass computes stunning light and shadows to bring your scene to life.
Unreal Kismet Visual Scripting: Artists and level designers can string together actions, inputs and events in Unreal Kismet to dictate how the world flows and how the player interacts without having to touch a single line of code.
iOS Feature List
Base UE3 Features
Highly shippable, proven engine core
Unreal Editor: Almost entire editor is supported
Unreal Lightmass: Global illumination, ambient occlusion and more
Unreal Swarm for distributed lighting builds
UnrealScript dynamic scripting language
Unreal Kismet visual scripting
Pathfinding and navigation meshes
Unreal Matinee cinematics tools
Unreal Cascade particle designer
Mesh painting tools
Canvas-based UI rendering
Unreal Content Browser asset manager
Full support for Autodesk FBX file format
Unreal animation system (AnimTrees, additive animations, blending, etc.)
Play In Editor, one-click game preview
Real-time inverse kinematics
BSP level construction system
Crowd system
Level-Of-Detail systems, including Massive LOD
Performance and memory profiling tools
Mesh simplification tool
Texture unwrapping and LOD generation tools
Perforce source control support
Physics and collision systems
Unreal Frontend tool for launching/packaging your game
Unreal Console lets you connect to mobile apps, issue commands and view logs
64-bit tools allow for huge data sets
Mobile
Portrait and landscape modes fully supported
Multi-touch control support including tilt/gyroscope
Touch-based look controls, gesture support
New mobile "input zone" system
Unreal Kismet and UnrealScript support for mobile input
Mobile input emulation on PC
Basic UI system based on canvas, with simple buttons/sliders
Movie playback
Engine
Fast performing iOS game engine
Level streaming with asynchronous loading
Share assets between multiple platforms
Mobile shader precaching/warming for hitch-free gameplay
Unreal Lightmass normal map baking
Precomputed Visibility system with Unreal Matinee path support
Cooker generates optimized minimum set of shaders based on game usage
Sound and music playback using OpenAL
3D sound spatialization (stereo output)
Asynchronous music streaming
Tools
Mobile Previewer for PC with nearly 1:1 graphics preview
UDK Remote for previewing mobile input on PC using iOS device
Movie generation tools with authentic mobile-style graphics
Capture screenshots and movies from device
Preview iOS device resolutions, system settings and landscape/portrait from editor
Graphics
State of the art graphics features on mobile
Flexible material system generates highly optimized OpenGL ES2 shaders
Real-time shadows (planar)
Particle systems
Bump offset mapping
Skeletal animation
Shading
Real-time per-pixel lighting
Normal mapping
Specular lighting, including per-pixel specular
Dynamic lighting (movable, animated lights)
Animated materials
Translucency, opacity masks
Rim lighting
Fresnel effects
Texture blending
Vertex coloring (paintable meshes)
Emissive lighting
Vertex deformation (foliage, cloth rendering)
Environment mapping
Baked ambient occlusion (skeletal meshes)
Water surface effects
Masking for emissive, environment maps, rim lights and more
Decals
Static mesh rendering
Non-uniformly scaled objects
Automatic Texture Flattening tool
Atmospheric fog
Tools
New Unreal Frontend UI
UFE now supports multiple profiles. A profile is a collection of settings for cooking, syncing, and launching that makes switching between projects and configurations a breeze.
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UnrealFrontend
Unreal Editor
A vertex color matching tool was added. It allows re-imported meshes to have their hand-painted vertex color paint refitted.
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/ContentBlog#Vertex color matching tool
Unreal Kismet
A new Kismet action, ProjectileFactory, was added. It allows spawning projectiles w/ muzzle flashes from a skeletal mesh socket or bone in Kismet.
Note: This build only supports 2 bones per vertex for mobile games. The next build will remove this limitation.
UDN Pages
New:
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MobileHome
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/GettingStartedMobile
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/GettingStartediOSDevelopment
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/AppleiOSProvisioning
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/AppleiOSProvisioningPortal
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/AppleiOSProvisioningSetup
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UnrealiPhonePackager
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UnrealOnMobile
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UnrealOniOS
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/GameCenter
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/DesigningForMobile
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MobileMaterialReference
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MobileTextureReference
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MobileInputSystem
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MobileAudioSystem
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MobileSystemSettings
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MobilePreviewer
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/DistributionAppleiOS
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/FullScreenMovieApple_iOS
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UDKRemote
Updated:
http://udn.epicgames.com//Three/PrecomputedVisibility
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UnrealFrontend
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MaterialsCompendium
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/CodingStandard
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/ScaleformTechnicalGuide
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UnrealScriptReference
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/DevelopmentKitFirstScriptProject
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/HUDTechnicalGuide
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/CanvasTechnicalGuide
PC specs
Minimum:
* Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
* 2.0+ GHz processor
* 2 GB system RAM
* SM3-compatible video card
* 3 GB Free hard drive space
Recommended for Content Development:
* Windows Vista 64 SP2
* 2.0+ GHz multi-core processor
* 8 GB System RAM
* NVIDIA 8000 series or higher graphics card
* Plenty of HDD space
UDK Screenshots
Download a free game made with UDK and a UDK showcase demo, and view a couple of trailers here.
Additional documentation, code samples and more are available at the Unreal Developer Network (UDN):
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/DevelopmentKitHome.html
Community Links
UDK Forums: www.udk.com/forums
UDK Developers on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2493123
UDK on Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/UDK/183744733429
Epic Games on Twitter: www.twitter.com/EpicGames
Full Changelog
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