Epic sigue ayudando a todos aquellos que quieren entrar en el mundo de los juegos y de las aplicaciones,ya que ha liberado una nueva versión de su kit de desarrollo. Hablamos de Unreal Engine Free, primera beta de este 2010.

Desde www.udk.com/download podemos descargarlo, y además informarnos mes a mes de los lanzamientos relacionados con esta temática.

La documentación original se puede encontrar aquí.

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
  • allows artists to easily create particle trails following animations
  • http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/AnimTrails.html
• 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