Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine is a professional suite of tools and technologies used for building high-quality games across a range of platforms. Unreal Engine’s rendering architecture enables developers to achieve stunning visuals and also scale elegantly to lower-end systems.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Features
- 3D Game Engine
- Destructible geometry
- Visual Programming
- Virtual Reality
- Blueprint Function
- Chaos Engine
- Node Based
- Materials Editor
- Particle Engine
- Photorealism
- No Coding Required
- Support for scripting
- Develop in VR
- Performance analysis
- Shader programming
- Architecture Visualization
- Quixel Megascans
- Cloth physics
- Ray Tracing
- Hair simulation
- Profiling Tool
- C support
- Apple Metal support
- Well documented
Tags
- Marketplace
- source-available
- 3d-engine
- Game Engine
- vulkan
- 2d-engine
- C++ Development
Unreal Engine News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Unity
Unity and Epic Games have announced a partnership to bring Unity games to FortniteUnity and Epic Games have unveiled a partnership that will allow Unity games to run within Fortnite...
- Maoholguin published news article about Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine 5.7 adds Procedural Content Generation, Nanite Foliage and MetaHuman updatesUnreal Engine 5.7 arrives with a production ready Procedural Content Generation (PCG) framework tha...
- Maoholguin published news article about Unreal Engine
Epic Games unveils Unreal Engine 5.5 with Megalights, Nanite upgrades, and lower royaltiesEpic Games has launched Unreal Engine 5.5, bringing new features like the notable MegaLights techno...
Recent activities
- cloudly-chat liked Unreal Engine
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What is Unreal Engine?
Unreal Engine is a professional suite of tools and technologies used for building high-quality games across a range of platforms. Unreal Engine’s rendering architecture enables developers to achieve stunning visuals and also scale elegantly to lower-end systems.
Revolutionary new workflow features and a deep toolset empower developers to quickly iterate on ideas and see immediate results, while complete C++ source code access brings the experience to a whole new level.
Unreal Engine technology powers hundreds of games as well as real-time 3D films, training simulations, visualizations and more. Over the past 15 years, thousands of individuals and teams and have built careers and companies around skills developed using the engine.
Unreal Engine information
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Comments and Reviews
Powerful like no other, UE is simply the best engine when it comes to the graphical quality. However the codebase is old, the engine is very, very bloated, and you can tell that a lot of former design decisions weigh down heavily on UE. If you need the highest graphical quality, take UE, but for anything but the top quality, I would go with Godot, which is more modern, practical, with a better UI, and generally the same but easier to use and share projects on.
The way their UI is set up allows me to create almost effortlessly. Truly one of the best to do it to this day. I love creating my little games on their system.
Graphics and ease of use, does not spy on you like Unity.
Intuitive UI and workflow, with a plethora of free assets and content available via asset packs and plugins made freely available. Blueprints system is a great node-based development workflow that can accomplish most things, if you're not comfortable with C++. Definitely things to be improved, but I think it's the most streamlined, feature packed free product you're going to find (even over Blender).
The source code is open but you don't have a free license like GPL or MIT, and are only allowed to use it if you agree to EPIC's proprietary license (That requires you to pay 5% of your earnings after you exceed $3k), not bad as an engine, but the license is a deal breaker for me.
One of the best game engine for topclass AAA games. However may not be suitable for Indie games that have very few developers, artists, etc since it requires pretty much knowledge, experience and manpower.
Having made a game in this engine I can say that it is a good engine, I started with zero knowledge of Unreal Engine 4(I did have programming experience) but whenever I had a question I could go to the dedicated answerhub and ask my question for support.
The community is also cool, if you are making something cool, send a message to the community message and ask them to feature you, they feature a few games every other week.
The UI of the engine is confusing to begin with but once you get used to the UI it is decent.