Epic Games Releases September 2010 Unreal Development Kit Beta

**Flak** · 09-24-2010, 10:36 AM

Epic Games Releases September 2010 Unreal Development Kit Beta

CARY, NC (September 23, 2010) –Epic Games, Inc. has released the September 2010 UDK Beta, the latest version of the Unreal Development Kit (UDK), the free edition of Unreal Engine 3 that provides uncompromised access to the award-winning toolset used in blockbuster video games, 3D visualizations, digital films and more.

Epic is committed to providing the UDK community with regular software releases at no charge, and the latest beta is available now at www.udk.com/download.

Are you creating something great with UDK? Drop us a line in the Project Show-Off forums, where links to tech demos, gameplay videos and screenshots are always welcome.

We have a new UDK architecture forum. Are you using UDK to create 3D visualizations or simulations? Drop in and meet others who are using Unreal Engine 3 tools for similar purposes. Scaleform UI creation also gained its own forum.

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This month’s build of UDK features significant additions, including:

UDK users now have access to the gameplay profiler tool.
Matinee’s movement tracks can now be split into individual translation and rotation components.
Users can bulk edit texture properties within the Content Browser.

Upgrade Notes

Due to changes in PhysX you should re-save all of your content.

UDKGame

Fixed leaning during jumps in UDK.
Fixed UDKVehicle crash.
‘AllowNVidiaStereo3D’ is false by default for UDK.
Switched UDK maps over to use precomputed visibility.
Resaved UDK maps for updated PhysX changes.

Profiling

Gameplay profiler tool now available in UDK!
- ‘GamePlayProfiler’ is a tool that allows digging deeper into time spent in gameplay code.
- Read more:
  - http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/GameplayProfiler.html

Matinee

Allow movement tracks to be split so that translation and rotation components can be individually manipulated.
- Read more:

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MatineeUserGuide.html#Separating Translation and Rotation

You can now disable the audio radio filter effect in Matinee Kismet blocks.

Particle System improvements

Now supports multiple ribbons per emitter.
New 'RandomSeed' module in Cascade helps particles play back more consistently.
Random size and lifetime can now be specified per ribbon in an emitter.
Particle spawn rates are now clamped to prevent negative spawn rates.

Rendering

Added ‘ImageGrain’ to ‘UberPostProcess.’
Improved post processing.
- Uses less memory.
- Better CPU/GPU performance.
- Improved quality and consistency.
- New features such as HDR scale and film grain.
Optimized distortion pass.
Fixed multiple split-screen issues causing color leaking.
'F5' key now enables shader complexity mode by default.

Animation

Added support for rotating Joint Bone to ‘SkelControlLimb.’
Animation compression improvements.
- With automatic or the ‘CompressAnimations’ commandlet.
  - Savings of 30% over the previously compressed size are typical.
  - Can be much higher on some animations or with adjustments to the compression parameters.

Scaleform GFx

Integrated fix for sRGB handling with fonts from Scaleform.
GFx now supports Distance Field and RGBA UFonts.
Added a sample GFxUI.int to Engine/Localization/INT/.

DCC Tools (Max/Maya)

ActorX for Maya and Max 2011 is now supported.

PhysX

‘PhysXDestructible’ has been removed.
APEX destructibles are replacing them.

Other Improvements:

Workflow enhancements (e.g., find all materials using this texture, support for local collections to the Content Browser).
Fixed hitches during gameplay caused by long processing times for zero length linechecks.
OBJ mesh export now can generate a diffuse, specular and normal texture from the material.
Alternate mesh bone weight import tool has been much improved and supports both low->high and high->low bone count swapping.
Streaming texture stat enhancements including the new STAT TEXTUREPOOL command.
Landscape editing improvements.
The new color picker is now integrated into the mesh paint tool.
The mesh paint tool now supports flood fill.
Gamma can now be used even if the tonemapper is activated.
Texture properties can now be edited in bulk via the Content Browser.

UDN Pages

New

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UDKTr...sAndLogos.html
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/Captu...dGameplay.html
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/GameS...Reference.html
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/Instr...tatistics.html
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/HitMask.html

Updated

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**II Patch** · 09-24-2010, 10:40 AM

1st reply....downloading it now... wonder how well Apex Destruction is going to turn out?

**Crusha K. Rool** · 09-24-2010, 11:01 AM

Wow, finally I know what the GameplayEventWriter class is for.. thought it was supposed to log stats for use in such stats...

**MaKiPL** · 09-24-2010, 11:27 AM

PhysXDestructible removed? Why?

**Crusha K. Rool** · 09-24-2010, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by MaKiPL

PhysXDestructible removed? Why?

Because it completely relies on APEX now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JtAdTon0JA
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/a...struction.html

**Jetfire** · 09-24-2010, 11:54 AM

Skelmesh hitmasks and a play session heatmap thingie? Oh my, thankyou, Epic!

**Kyle_Katarn** · 09-24-2010, 12:06 PM

APEX seems to look too clean, like the broken pieces seem to look too uniformly square, although that said I haven't had a chance to stuff around with it yet so I could be wrong.

Edit:

That said, it is an amazing update, and just in time too, I was getting worried we werent going to have one.

**Sir. Polaris** · 09-24-2010, 12:14 PM

Woots, another impressive update. I wonder how long this slow leak of greatness can continue

**Kinos** · 09-24-2010, 01:06 PM

Oh, man, I think I might work for you. You know, get my game dev skills up and work for Epic. I respect Epic games over all other studios, and I respect all here on this forum. Epic is truly living up to their name. Keep sending those awesome beta builds.

Kinos

**agentfx** · 09-24-2010, 01:28 PM

very nice update! Glade to see the particles update and changes. and Thanks for the recording docs.

**RyanRothweiler** · 09-24-2010, 11:36 PM

yesss another update

Thanks epic!
So whats the deal with PhysX? Did it just get removed or placed with APEX?

**II Patch** · 09-25-2010, 12:41 AM

I have a problem when starting UDK it stops at this point......

.

I've re-uploaded it several times and it still keeps happening at the same point.

**Wyldhunt** · 09-25-2010, 03:18 AM

Mayhaps it's just a compatibility thing with the new version, or somehow bugged.

I've deleted my shadercache files before, and the UDK auto-rebuilt them... Although it took a few hours.

You might try that. Make a backup of your shadercache-PC-D3D-SM3.upk file (In case this doesn't work), delete it, then load UDK editor. I'm guessing that it'll re-build it.

**Deliverance6** · 09-25-2010, 03:41 AM

Any word on Uscript changes? cos there were plenty of undocumented ones in the last few releases before i copy over all my scripts. Also i agree, Apex looks too clean and uniform, would be better if it was more similar to Fracture meshes (from a dev point of view)

**II Patch** · 09-25-2010, 05:58 AM

I get this now upon install....

This is frustrating.

**NikSha** · 09-25-2010, 06:03 AM

Alright, installed and double checked, so far it runs without any problem (as usual). Another update well done Epic. Kudos.

Saw the Apex videos, looks pretty sweet but like other said, too clean (square boxes in most of the videos except one with realtime demo and ragdoll dumies crashing into walls, which was amazing).

So judging from the ragdoll video, I'd say that the other blocky demos were done in a hurry or to just simple demonstrate the tools/Apex.

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