Unreal Engine 4 to be shown at GDC next week

[terrannova]

Pretty exciting news, I can't wait to see how it compares to the amazing UE3 demo we saw last year.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/02/28/un...gdc-next-week/

Epic will be showing off Unreal Engine 4 behind closed doors at GDC next week. This time last year Epic showed off the impressive Unreal Engine Samaritan demo. That demo was running on a souped up super-PC running several GTX580s in parallel, so we’re unlikely to see that sort of carefully choreographed loveliness running in the next engine. Still, given how much has been gradually added to Unreal 3 over the years, the new build must be making quite a leap to justify sticking a 4 on the end.

A new Unreal Engine is big news for major developers and indies alike. The Unreal Development Kit has been free for years, and early last year Epic dramatically increased the royalty threshold tenfold, allowing new developers to make more money from UDK designed games before having to pay a cut to Epic. Hopefully we’ll see similar schemes and a free UDK appearing for Unreal Engine 4 in the long run. For now, it’d be nice to see exactly how much better it looks than its predecessor.

[CrAwL]

I am excited to see what it looks like, but what is epic actually going to do with it? Next gen consoles (if specs are rumored to be true) can't even run the tech thats in it. And it will be a cold day in hell when epic starts making PC games again.

[UTGeneral]

a) Must use the best possible textures to put the unreal engine back on the map like the first unreal engine did with the S2C textures

b) Must be used for a UT99 remake

[terrannova]

a) Must use the best possible textures to put the unreal engine back on the map like the first unreal engine did with the S2C textures

b) Must be used for a UT99 remake

Agreed.

I want a proper sequel to the first Unreal as well. Epic did it once, dangit they can do it again.

[Link316]

Maybe it will be like CryEngine 3.........

[Irontiger]

Maybe it will be like CryEngine 3.........

Speaking of which, Nexuiz looks like the UT fix people have been waiting for.

[Link316]

Speaking of which, Nexuiz looks like the UT fix people have been waiting for.

Never heard of this game until yesterday watched a video but know nothing about it other than the obvious.

[terrannova]

Speaking of which, Nexuiz looks like the UT fix people have been waiting for.

I will have to check out the video then, sounds interesting.

[Arathorn]

Looks like we the public were blueballed, thanks for getting my hopes up Epic

[Mr.Generic_]

The Samaritan can run on 1 "Kepler"


FXAA at work

At the 2011 GDC conference, Epic introduced the Samaritan demo, which provided users a look at the next generation of videogame graphics. The demo utilized a host of advanced rendering techniques to create a realistic environment. The issue with the demo in 2011 was it took three GeForce GTX 580s to run the demo in real-time. At this years GDC, Epic showed the demo utilizing only one next-generation Nvidia Kepler GPU.