Unreal 2 Engine?

[Aztral]

I hope this is the appropriate forum for this question: I'm looking to obtain and do some work with the Unreal Engine 2. I know the UDK is UE3 based but I would like to work with UE2 for a number of reasons. I can obviously find the UDK easily but I haven't been able to find the UE2 engine for download.

The licensing faq at http://www.unrealtechnology.com/licensing.php?ref=faq leads me to believe it is available, but I can't find where for the life of me.

Can anyone tell me if it's available, and if it is where I can get it?

Thanks.

[saymoo]

UE2, is only available as full license (sourcecode etc ).
UE3, same.

UDK is a different package, where it is only a binary (no sourcecode) version of the latest UE3 build.


untill recently there was the Unreal Runtime, the former UDK so to speak, since UR had a binary version of the latest UE2 engine, where UDK has the latest UE3 engine (binary). Though with UR, you wheren't allowed to make any games with it. Epic has stopped the UR programme, and replaced it with UDK.
UDK doesn't have the NO game restriction.

I myself wonder too, if Epic would release a UDKlite (UE2 based) package. (incl. Linux support)
UE2 is still a good engine, which can bring nice graphics and the likes.
It would be good for us developers, to let us have a choice, games for lower end machines, OR linux targeted, or both == UDKlite (ue2), or go to the High end machines with UDK (ue3).

[ellement]

wow Udk based on UE2 , interesting, but is there ligtmass , in UE2? if not, that would be a loads of lights in the scene.


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[saymoo]

Although your post has nothing to do with this thread (Unreal engine 2), here's my comment/advise/suggestion:

My guess, is that a licensee has leaked (through one of it's devs or a hacker stealing from them, without the licensee knowing. I cant imagine it's stolen or leaked directly from/out Epic's HQ)
Same happend to (kind of) with the Source engine from Valve software, a few years back as i recall.
All in all, i doubt it's the complete sourcecode, since with the valve theft, only a part was copied, not the complete code.

Maybe you should notify epic games with the link to the download you've found, so they can put legal charges to the provider of that copy. That would be a good thing, since these kind of crimes should stop imho. Don't under any circumstance post the URL here, since that can spread the copy more and more. The less people know the link, the better.

[Aztral]

Thanks for the response. That's kind of a bummer, but I'll live.

[Badvibration]

I myself wonder too, if Epic would release a UDKlite (UE2 based) package. (incl. Linux support)
UE2 is still a good engine, which can bring nice graphics and the likes.
It would be good for us developers, to let us have a choice, games for lower end machines, OR linux targeted, or both == UDKlite (ue2), or go to the High end machines with UDK (ue3).

I think that this would be a fantastic idea.

[MaKiPL]

Umm...

Just look at this link:

http://udn.epicgames.com/Files/UE2/Runtime/UE2Runtime-22262002_Demo.exe

It's UnrealEngine II what you can make a game... but... it's trial :D

[saymoo]

wrong: the runtime is not for game purposes. (the license along with that runtime, forbids it even)

[MaKiPL]

wrong: the runtime is not for game purposes. (the license along with that runtime, forbids it even)

So, that's only engne preview :)