Empires on Source 2 : Source 2 is FREE edition

But it will preclude you from getting hosted on Steam if you are a free UE4 game without any further connection to Valve's products. Or are there some thoughts to make it commercial?

 

Valve isn't EA, they're business principles would never be to alienate their competitors, but rather have their competitors depend on them/each other. Not to mention that Valve's business isn't even game engines, it's content distribution (and maybe their own video games), unlike EPIC who's business is licensing their engine out. In that regard, they're hardly competitors and Valve would probably accept any potentially successful title on their store as they get 30% of profits. There are no engine wars, there are only video games and their makers.

 

I don't see why adding some cosmetic for-sale items wouldn't do anything but help increase the development of the project. People become far more dedicated to something when they don't have to worry about working a job to pay for food and rent

It's on my mind for the UE4 project. I wouldn't want to do it in any way that would detract from the nature of Empires. Only enhance it.

 

Has anyone questioned Source 2's ability to run with vehicles? Is it the same shit or better? If its the same.. Dump it for UE4.

 

Source2 uses PhysX as it's physics engine, so it's the same as UE4. VPhys/Havok has been dead for a long time... Portal 2 was the last game to use it but even then it was because Portal 2 was off the Portal branch. Dota2/CSGO use PhysX now.

While I haven't seen Source2's networking setup, if it's anything like Source1's networking... UE4 will blow it out of the water.

 

well then the next question for source 2 is, is there proper documentation?

 

Would anyone even know this by this point?

okay, thats neat

 

Kylegar, are there any UE3/4 games currently hooked into the marketplace?

 

If you mean on Steam, the first that comes to mind off the top of my head is Dungeon Defenders 1 and 2.

 

i love commercial shovelware

 

Taking a look at the top games on steam, Borderlands is UE3, but that's UE3. I know Smite is a free to play game on UE3 as well, but it's not on steam as far as i can tell.

UE4 is fairly new, so there aren't many high quality games on it yet. There are a few UE4 games on Greenlight right now (Here is one and here is another)

The BF2R guys are making a large scale milsimish shooter on UE4. Here is a recent devblog: http://joinsquad.com/readArticle?articleId=10
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i went looking around on how to map in ue4 and ended up hating it more.
i looked on youtube for tutorials on making maps and found tons of tutorials on creating bumpy terrain but none on city-ish maps

apparently, in order to make a simple wall you have to be a modeller and learn a completely separate program. did i mention it takes pretty much forever to make that simple wall?
just wonderful.
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a video on how a 20 year old program can do something better than the "best editor out now"

 

thank you for watching a 4 minute video in less than one minute, flasche

i can tell you that no, i cant handle blender. and neither can others. its also tedious and much longer if you do know it (dont you have to compile for every single model? how the fuck do you turn a high poly model into a low poly model?)

not to mention these words i hear but will never understand: baking, uv texture

 

I looked at some of the comments in that youtube video and someone mentioned ProBuilder which seems to be plugin for Unity that does exactly what you're looking for. It's not out yet for UE4 but it seems like it's at least being looked at, who knows how long it might take though..