[Riddick]

Per gli interessati di UDK, hanno rilasciato la nuova beta...

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Epic Games Releases August 2010 Unreal Development Kit Beta



CARY, NC (August 13, 2010) – Epic Games, Inc. has released the August 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.

You can see many of the top UDK games and applications at www.udk.com/showcase. This month we would like to congratulate Teotl Studios on their upcoming commercial release for The Ball.

It’s easy to sign up as a commercial UDK developer online. Our FAQ can help you determine which type of license is right for you.

This month’s beta release includes many upgrades, such as:

* Scaleform pipeline improvements
* Improved motion blur
* New detail lighting view mode
* Recompile materials directly from Content Browser right-click menu
* New character indirect lighting controls
* Better hair lighting

Plus, new documentation like the Scaleform workflow, introduction to FaceFX and camera technical guide will be helpful to those getting started with UDK.

Here’s the full list of improvements in detail:

Scaleform GFx

* Scaleform GFx 3.3.85 is now merged in and all UDK UI is GFx-based.
* Made many improvements and fixes to the Scaleform import pipeline.



Point Light Shadows

* Whole scene shadows for point lights are now supported.



Precomputed Visibility

* Precomputed visibility allows occlusion on platforms that don't support hardware occlusion queries.

Motion Blur

* The quality of Motion Blur has been significantly improved without a performance loss.



New Detail Lighting View Mode

* Replaces diffuse and specular color but keeps all other material parameters like normal map, opacity mask, two sidedness, etc.
* Useful for viewing lighting without material diffuse color influence.
* Lighting-only view mode is still useful for looking at lightmap artifacts and compression.





Character Indirect Lighting

* Added new controls for fine-tuning runtime indirect lighting settings on characters.
* Added distinct controls for both lit and shadowed environments.



Indirect Lighting

Hair Lighting

* Implemented a new, single-pass technique for translucency lighting.
* Previous technique relied on multiple passes, which over-brightens on multilayered objects, such as hair.
* The single-pass technique uses about half the number of shader instructions as multipass lighting, so hair will be much cheaper.



Normal Maps, Indirect Lighting & Lightmaps

* Normal maps are now taken into account for indirect lighting with simple lightmaps.


Other New Stuff

* Can now recompile materials directly from the right-click menu in Content Browser.
* New texture streaming system saves memory and prioritizes textures more effectively.
* Added limited support for importing non-power-of-two (NPOT) textures into the editor. MIP maps are not allowed, and image dimensions must be divisible by four for DXT compression.
* Vertex normals are now correctly saved with static meshes exported as OBJ files.
* Terrain export now supports holes.
* New ContentComparison commandlet helps optimize content.
* Lightmass static shadows now have texture space filtering on by default, which smoothes out aliasing.
* Material editor Undo and Redo are now much faster.
* Added multiple camera offset support for particle modules and camera offset support for mesh emitters.
* Spawn at bone/socket now allows rotating mesh particles to the orientation of the bone/socket.

Download: QUI

[GEARS_CORPORATION]

Thanks Soul

[Lorenz]

ottimo vado subito a scaricarla
[EDIT]ti ho sistemato il post con delle immagini per fare capire meglio l'update

[Jonathan Archer]

A ogni beta mi scavo la fossa xD

[Riddick]

Un aggiornamento che ha portato solo migliorie da come vedo... e aggiunto qualche funziona sulle ombre che non ho capito... comunque ogni volta che aumentano gli effetti aumenta pure la pesantezza, tra poco i requisiti minimi saranno 8 giga XD

[Lorenz]

ma non sono così sicuro ache loro hanno scritto

The quality of Motion Blur has been significantly improved without a performance loss.

tradotto

La qualità del Motion Blur è stata notevolmente migliorata, senza perdita di prestazioni.

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Per le ombre vuole dire che le ombre di tutta la scena ora possono derivare da un'unico punto di luce
(in questa beta hanno migliorato tantissimo le ombre tra in capelli le persone gli oggetti...)

[Riddick]

vabbè per un coso... intendevo in generale.

[Lorenz]

Bhe da me gira identico a prima...non ha perso di velocità per niente...
a parte quando akira esagera con le luci....

[simussimus]

*Whole scene shadows for point lights are now supported.

Gentilmente qualcuno mi spiega cos'è?

[David]

ma da quanti anni vanno avanti ste beta? xD

[Lorenz]

è uscito da pochissimo credo da novebre scorso o forse prima nn ricordo

[AkirA]

a parte quando akira esagera con le luci....

sorry <.<

[simussimus]

*Whole scene shadows for point lights are now supported.
qualcuno mi spiega cos'è?

[Lorenz]

credo che sia (google traduttore)

Per le ombre vuole dire che le ombre di tutta la scena ora possono derivare da un'unico punto di luce