MULTI Unreal Engine 4 Being Shown at GDC Next Week, Just Not to the Public

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Next week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco will see the unveiling of the next Unreal Engine, the software that powers many of the games we play on consoles, PCs and mobile devices. Epic Games is showing off the Unreal Engine 4 behind closed doors, meaning we might not hear too much about its next-gen platform for a while.

Epic says it will be previewing its next-generation game tech to "select licensees, partners and prospective customers during the exhibition." Those who do see it will be bound to non-disclosure agreements, meaning blabbing about the prospects of next-gen visuals is verboten.

The Unreal Engine maker showed off its "Samaritan" demo (pictured above) at last year's GDC, an "Unreal Engine 3 real-time demo [that] represents what Epic wants to see in the next generation of games." So expect something even prettier, whenever we get to see it.

Mike Capps, president of Epic Games, took to Twitter last week to get the hype for Unreal Engine primed, saying that internal demonstrations of its GDC demos "made people gasp, literally."

 

[FAIZY56]

Unreal engine 4 is in development for abt 10years and the developer said that only multicore(12-16core) PCs can handle its rendering.So we will have to w8 till 2018 maybe

 

[NighteySenpai]

Unreal engine 4 is in development for abt 10years and the developer said that only multicore(12-16core) PCs can handle its rendering.So we will have to w8 till 2018 maybe

Ermm What?

 

[Ashhad]

Unreal engine 4 is in development for abt 10years and the developer said that only multicore(12-16core) PCs can handle its rendering.So we will have to w8 till 2018 maybe

where did you get this news from? :S

 

[FAIZY56]

found source:

[h=3]Unreal Engine 4[/h]Mark Rein, the vice-president of Epic Games, revealed on August 18, 2005 that Unreal Engine 4 had been in development since 2003.[SUP][10][/SUP] The engine targets the next generation of PC hardware and consoles after the seventh generation. The only person to work on the Unreal Engine 4 core system design up to that point was Tim Sweeney, technical director and founder of Epic Games.[SUP][11][/SUP]

Sweeney gave a speech at PoPL06 (the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages) that described aspects of how the Unreal Engine 3 worked at the time and "what we would like to write" in the future. He predicted the next generation of games consoles would arrive in 2009, at which time game designers would work with CPUs that had 20 or more cores, 80 or more hardware threads, and more than a teraflop of computing power.[SUP][12][/SUP]
In March 2008, Sweeney predicted that the number of developers working on Unreal Engine 4 would be ramped up to three or four engineers by the end of that year, and implied that it would be aimed predominantly at the next generation of consoles rather than PCs.[SUP][13][/SUP]
Sweeney has stated in a recent interview with IGN that Unreal Engine 4 will probably be ready for use in 2014.[SUP][14][/SUP]
In February 2012, Mark Rein (the CEO of Epic) said "people are going to be shocked later this year when they see Unreal Engine 4".

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_Engine#Unreal_Engine_4

 

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Epic Games, a major game designer, astonished the GDC12 attendees with its Samaritan demo, which depicts next-generation video-game graphics effects using Nvidia GeForce GTX "Kepler" hardware. Created in a dark, futuristic setting, the demo utilized a host of advanced rendering techniques that smoothly tessellated and morphed facial features, created realistic street scenes using point light reflections, and replicated the work of the best movie directors through the use of fine-tuned out of focus bokeh filters.

Back at GTC11, a similar demo was unoptimized and was run on three Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 graphics boards in multi-GPU mode. This time, however, at GDC12, the Samaritan (which is based on the tweaked Unreal Engine 3 demo) was rendered using one Nvidia GeForce GTX "Kepler" graphics cards. Potentially, this proves that the next-gen Kepler architecture is two or more times faster than the existing Fermi architecture in its model 580 form

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[video=youtube;lRNn5iGE-90]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lRNn5iGE-90[/video]

 

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[h=2]Unreal Engine 4: Everything I Could Wring Out of Epic VP Mark Rein[/h]




Epic Games' next-gen Unreal Engine is being shown at GDC; just not to everyone. Only select partners, developers and licensees have seen the future tech that will make Unreal Engine 4-powered games that much more unreal.

Mark Rein, vice president and co-founder of developer Epic Games, has seen it. And while he wouldn't tell me much about UE4, given that those who have seen it in action are under strict nondisclosure agreements, Rein offered some tantalizing details about the next-gen engine.

I asked Rein why that, even though it seems that almost every game is running Unreal Engine 3 these days, why isn't every game running Unreal Engine 3 these days. (The Medal of Honor team, for example, dropped Unreal in favor of EA's in-house engine, Frostbite 2.)

"We're doing [Unreal Engine 4] and I don't think anybody else is doing anything as incredible as that," Rein boasted. A developer who had seen Epic's UE4 demo was sitting nearby, eavesdropping. He vigorously nodded his head in agreement.

"Right? You've seen it?" Rein asked him. That developer gave us his non-verbal impression of Unreal Engine 4 by offering us an eyes-glazed-over, jaw-dropped look.

"Our biggest competition in the engine business isn't somebody else that makes middleware, it's people who make their own," Rein said, getting back to my question. "Most games are still made with their own technology. A lot of people still have their own stuff, our goal with UE4 is to prove to them that it's time [to switch]."

"I have a really good explanation to developers under certain NDAs to answer that, to solve that dilemma for them. But we're just not ready to talk about that yet."

"It's the tools. We are really, really, really investing in tools in a way that I don't think anyone making their own engine can afford to do, has the foresight to do and has enough experience making these things to do as well as we can," he said.

Rein talked about the acceptance of Unreal Engine over its various iterations, saying that expects even more developers of big budget AAA games to adopt unreal.

"UE 4? Look out. Game changer," Rein boasted. "I've said enough."

Rein and Epic may be say more to the public about Unreal Engine 4 in the coming months, however.

"We hope later this year. We don't have a specific date and it's not 100% under our control."