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[OccamsBlender]

Man, I didn't know there was a specific UDK thread here. Might as well post what I am working on:



I'm working on the body of the dragon, but until then, I wanted to ask here about toggable lights. How expensive are they compared to regular points lights? I want to try and use them to give the room the flicker of fire when I shoot the video. Are they a viable alternative, or full dynamics lights cheaper/better?

Nice looking stuff! Maybe you should consider an emissive material.
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MaterialBasics.html#Self-Illumination / Emissive / Bloom

If you do this you can use material parameters to change brightness and what have you.

 

[Raxious]

I haven't used the Oculus Rift myself but it looks like it could be quite fun to use with UDK.
I have read some stuff about it though, and it seems you will also need a specific version of UDK for it to work with OR, right?

If you try it out, let us know how it was! I will try to grab one sometime early next year (hopefully one with higher screen resolution).

I decided to wait getting one. The fact that the 1080p version is supposedly going to be announced 'soon' makes me not wanna spent 300$, only to see a better version getting released.

I might get it early next year as well. It would be so cool to create a demo level for school, give my teacher the OR and say "Now this is how you're supposed to play games!".

 

[Minamu]

I believe that when the OR comes out and has the needed features techwise, that's when the truly new generation begins. I think the OR has the bigger and better potential to change the playing field in revolutionary ways than the next-gen hardware. Who knows what'll happen when you combine the two!

 

[Minamu]

So, it seems OR requires Unity Pro to work. Just how good or bad is that special version of UDK with OR support? I need one of these programs for an OR related master thesis project and to the best of my knowledge, my school doesn't have Unity Pro or a budget to get me a license.

 

[Blizzard]

So, it seems OR requires Unity Pro to work. Just how good or bad is that special version of UDK with OR support? I need one of these programs for an OR related master thesis project and to the best of my knowledge, my school doesn't have Unity Pro or a budget to get me a license.

It seemed to work okay for me, but has it been updated at all? Like we were discussing earlier, Oculus lost one of the big experts on it, so I don't know if they ever fixed some of the problems. I don't think it had too many features for settings etc.

That said, you're in school, and the UDK download isn't huge on the Oculus site, just grab it and give it a shot! Worth at least seeing if it will work for you, and normal UDK/UE3 tutorials should still apply.

 

[Minamu]

It seemed to work okay for me, but has it been updated at all? Like we were discussing earlier, Oculus lost one of the big experts on it, so I don't know if they ever fixed some of the problems. I don't think it had too many features for settings etc.

That said, you're in school, and the UDK download isn't huge on the Oculus site, just grab it and give it a shot! Worth at least seeing if it will work for you, and normal UDK/UE3 tutorials should still apply.

I'll have to check it out for sure It's a small project, just one room, a train track, a track switch and a speeding train basically. Should be fairly easy to construct in any engine, really

 

[Raxious]

Soo, I started working on a new school project today which is a horror game set in a dream world. Created the floors for the block level by using a map someone from our group made.

Gotta say, took me only 20 minutes and it's pretty close to it.