Unreal Engine 4

**Tain** · 19 Mar 2014, 02:09 PM

Surprise! Released today, you can subscribe for $19 a month to get full source code access (which seems nuts) as well as binaries for the editor and all that good stuff. If you sell what you make, Epic gets 5% royalties, straight-up. No console distribution at that price, but you do get PC, Mac, Android, and iOS.

Sounds like a pretty good deal, imo. I'll probably drop $20 just to mess with this stuff, but combined with today's Rift DK2 announcement I can't help but want to make something.

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/we...nreal-engine-4

**Rumpy** · 19 Mar 2014, 02:11 PM

wow, that's pretty crazy.

**Frogacuda** · 19 Mar 2014, 04:20 PM

Wow, 5% royalty seems insanely low. Wasn't Unreal 3 like 50%?

**Joust Williams** · 19 Mar 2014, 04:26 PM

I think it was a quarter but they used to have flat rates (not sure if they had flat rates for 3). They are getting really agressive with this.

**arjue** · 19 Mar 2014, 09:42 PM

I think Unity might have been a wake up call for them.

**Chux** · 19 Mar 2014, 09:49 PM

Originally Posted by arjue

I think Unity might have been a wake up call for them.

It was for Charlie Murphy.

**Shin Johnpv** · 20 Mar 2014, 07:29 AM

Crytek announced they're taking Cryengine into the same pay model at 9.90 a month, no word on if this gives you source code or not. It's your move now Unity.

**Tain** · 23 Mar 2014, 04:51 PM

so I love this shit so far. Blueprints are so much better than Kismet. You can use them to make individual classes and you get a visual layout to position components and expose component properties and shit, it's really nice. It's even preferable to what I've done in UnrealScript for certain kinds of classes. Those classes can be accessed via C++, too, and apparently it's easy to do the other way around (as expected). Integration with Visual Studio is pretty smooth on the coding side. I haven't dug too far into that, but it's hard to be clunkier than the out-of-box UE3 method imo. Building lighting takes place in the background now, so you can fiddle with other stuff while waiting.