News From Epic Games - November 2011 UDK Beta Released

**ffejnosliw** · 11-30-2011, 02:39 PM

Epic Games Releases November 2011 Unreal Development Kit Beta

Epic Games, Inc. has released the November 2011 UDK Beta, the latest version of the Unreal Development Kit (UDK), the free edition of Unreal Engine 3 that provides access to the award-winning toolset used in blockbuster video games, 3D visualizations, digital films and more. The latest beta is available now at www.udk.com/download.

UDK Showcase: Waves

This month’s showcase features the breakout indie game developed by Squid in a Box, which delivers addictive gameplay peppered with a confetti of striking visuals. To celebrate the arena shooter’s launch on Steam, we sat down with CEO Robert Hale to talk about his years spent making games and the decision to go with UDK. Read more.
We have showcases of some of the most outstanding UDK projects at www.udk.com/showcase and www.unrealengine.com/showcase. Also be sure to check out the Works in Progress and the Released Projects forums.

November UDK Beta Upgrade Notes

Scaleform 4 Upgrade

Vastly improved rendering integration with multithreaded renderer
Added Action Script 3 support. Action Script 2 is still supported.
Includes CLIK 3.0 (Lightweight Interface Kit)
Major improvements to the AMP profiler
Updated UDN documentation

Unreal Landscape and Foliage

Landscape flatten tool tool is enhanced with a flatten to slope option
New Clay Brush makes sculpting of landscape vertex data much quicker and easier
Foliage scale axis locking allows for variable Z scale but uniform XY scale, plus z-offset settings
New reimport Heightmap / layer button for each layer
Updated Unreal Landscape documentation with info on new layer nodes
Updated foliage documentation with info on new features
Foliage now follows base component on copy/paste/move/rotate/move-to-level
Much improved brush painting behavior for both vertex and layers in regular (non-clay) mode. Repainting the same area no longer causes artifacts
Changed the regular paint tool behavior so that painting over the same area requires multiple brush strokes. The functionality is now consistent with Zbrush and prevent artifacts

Editor

You can now export skeletal meshes and animations from the editor, enabling bi-directional cinematic workflow
Added the ability to adjust sound class volume levels from a matinee track
The content browser's 'Packages' view now returns to previously active view (hierarchical or flattened) when filter is cleared
Added support for turning off startup movies and toggling cinematic mode for matinee movie captures

iOS

High level Twitter UnrealScript-accessible support has been added
- You can now show the iOS 5 Tweet UI and optionally attach a local .png image and/or a URL, making use of the single-sign-on Twitter account(s) in iOS 5
- You can also submit a generic Twitter request (i.e., get the local user’s followers)
- Implemented for iOS 5
Added ADPCM sound encoding support

Mac OS X feature parity work

Additions and upgrades
- Added support for "Maximize" button
- Added full support for vertex texture fetch
- Minor PhysX library update, addressing some rare crashes, and adding "quickload" extension support
- Support for loops and secondary color attribute during shader generation
Fixed issues
- Instanced drawing now on full parity with PC
- Light shafts now render properly and have full visual parity with PC
- Full-screen rendering and MSAA
- Inconsistent lens flares compared to PC
- Inconsistencies with anisotropic filtering between PC and Mac
- Shadows from spotlight on dynamic / skeletal meshes

New and Updated UDN Pages

**ffejnosliw** · 11-30-2011, 02:51 PM

Twitter Integration documentation: http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/TwitterIntegration.html

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