Unreal Engine is a Massive Powerhouse for Games and More!
Unreal Engine is an all-around powerhouse that is used with my studio for Game Development and Archviz projects which is an all-around …
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Originally designed in 1998, Unreal Engine is a game engine designed to build games of all type, with sharp graphics and control, using the C++ language.
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What is Unreal Engine?
Originally designed in 1998, Unreal Engine is a game engine designed to build games of all type, with sharp graphics and control, using the C++ language.
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February 07, 2023
Unreal Engine is a Massive Powerhouse for Games and More!
Unreal Engine is an all-around powerhouse that is used with my studio for Game Development and Archviz projects which is an all-around powerhouse for real-time games and visualizations to bring creations to life or even tell a story in a beautifully rounded way for many purposeful platforms. It can be a bit daunting at times but the end result is truly amazing and will astound the end-user.
- Real-Time Visualization
- Easy Programming
- Valuable Toolset
- Addons Galore
- Vast Marketplace of Assets
- Lots of Free Stuff
- A lot of the Addons/Plugins don't work with the most recent engine versions.
- The engine itself can be very problematic at times.
- Changes and Improvements to the engine can become frustrating at times.
- Video Game Creation
- Blueprint (Visual Scripting)
- Asset Collection
- Plugins and Tools
- It has had a major impact with visually stunning results
- It has won us a lot of clients and work
- It has also create some tension due to changes that have impacted workflows
- CRYENGINE and Unity
I have used Unity in the past and found it rather clunky and not so easy to use to program games unless knowing how to fully program along with the fact that it seems very cluttered and difficult to find tools for making games and such. Additionally, I have also tried to use CRYENGINE and found it was extremely difficult to use to make games or even package them along with lacking assets and ease of usage.
We use Unreal Entine to augment our normal 3d visualization workflow. Primarily it is used to add functionlaity to 3d environments, develop VR products and provide realtime render capabilities. It's really easy to export models and textures from our primary software, 3ds Max, to Unreal Engine and then continue to develop the model. Epic Games, the developer of UE has spent a lot of time and money to make sure UE plays nice with everybody.
- Realtime rendering
- Interactivity and user interface
- Virtual Reality development
- Ease of distribution of final product
- The modeling tools are getting better but have a good way to go to really be intuitive
- They are trying to bridge the gap between coders and artists and have done well but more needs to continue to happen to enable users who have little experience writing code to be able to use it effectively. It's not that this is a "room for improvement" thing per se, it's just that more of it needs to be done and I think they know that and are on it.
- It's so powerful, it's difficult to find anything else that needs improvement. It's kind of mindblowing what it's capable of.
- Pretty intuitive minimizing learning curve
- Compatability with other software standards
- Speed of rendering very high quality imagery
- It's helped a tiny studio like mine to compete with larger and more financially sound studios.
- It gives me another product from which I can derive a revenue stream.
- Unless you are publishing a game for sale or a packaged product, UE is free to use and tinker with. You can use it to build something amazing to use in your portfolio which in turn can help you sell your skills.
- Unity
Unity and Unreal Engine have gone toe-to-toe for years. At one point Unity I felt was lagging behind but lately they've relized that threat UE represents and they've upped their game considerably. Unity is unquestionably very powerful but I find UE's learning curve less steep and I find that it's more intuitive. Plus, I still believe UE is more cutting edge.