A few questions

[empiregames]

First of all as a Indie Developer I think its great that you guys are offering this free of charge for non-commercial development. It will help us big time in the prototyping department as we try to secure funding.

I have a couple questions.

First will the MMO tools be included at some point? Second I am sure you can make third person RPG style characters but how do you go about doing it?

[parkar]

The UT Demo scripts simply lock the camera to the players location to create the first person view and makes the model invisible to the owner. Making a third person style game is no more difficult then having the camera do something else and make the model visible. The behindview command will actually give you a simple 3d person mode in the UT Demo.

You can also decouple the FPS controlling of the player and do point and click style navigation but that's of course quiet a lot more work as you don't have any EPIC code for free to do that.

[ambershee]

There are no 'MMO tools' - otherwise parkar is largely on the money; implementing simple 3rd person behaviour is actually fairly trivial.

[empiregames]

There is a full MMO Suite for the Unreal 3 Engine:

www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3173281

[Denny]

There is a full MMO Suite for the Unreal 3 Engine:

www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3173281
Which you can simply forget, trust me on that one.

[empiregames]

I won't forget about it. I run a non-registered Indie Development company. My goal is to just put together a prototype for our MMO then get funding then I will look into Atlas at that point. Thanks for your help.

[CrystalCore]

Making an MMO in UE3 isn't going to be easy. For a start, with UDK its damn near impossible, as you cant sort the server issues out. They won't release their MMO tools with UDK, so honestly, aim lower, make a small downloadable game with UDK. Then buy the full license of UE3 with MMO Kit with the profits you made.

[empiregames]

The prototype will be a RPG that a group of a few friends will be able to play together. But it will have alot of the features I would like to see in the MMO it just won't be so massive.