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Unreal Development Kit January Beta

Author: Epic Games

The Unreal Development Kit is a standalone version of Epic's Unreal Engine 3 framework, the engine and tools behind such games as Gears of War 2 and Batman: Arkham Asylum. The UDK is completely free for non-commercial and educational use, perfect for anyone looking to dabble in development.

Included are tools for everything from programming to level design, plus code and assets for a barebones Unreal Tournament 3 to get you started.

The January update brings several improvements and new features, detailed below.

Improved UDK Features and Tools
  • decal improvements
    • lit translucent decals are now supported
      • allows much better blending of decal edges into the environment
    • shadowmap support for decals
      • works for both static and dynamic shadow maps and allows for decals to receive shadows from dominant directional lights as well as toggleable lights
      • works when decal is attached to texture and vertex lightmapped
  • Animtrails: animation driven trail emitters
  • ongoing UTGame de-nativization
    • Moving UTGame specific C++ functionality that didn't need to be in C++ back into UnrealScript
    • This makes it easier for UDK developers to see how we implemented this functionality, and has also resulted in new engine functionality being exposed to script.
      • Notable examples include the new SVehicle physics interface functions and making it possible to tick skeletal controllers and UTUIScenes in script.
  • fixed Lightmass generating directional lighting being flipped in the texture's V direction

Updated UDN Documentation

Filename: UDKInstall-2010-01-BETA.exe
Size: 530.28 MB
Post Date: Jan 15, 2010 4:24am PST
Last Updated: Sep 23, 2010 8:17pm PDT
Downloads: 219

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