Unreal Engine Versions/2.5

Delete Me - Refactored into Unreal Engine 2

Unreal Engine 2.5 targets 2004~2005 high-end PCs. an enhanced version of Unreal Engine 2 with an optimized rendering engine. core technology re-written and improving and extension, The Unreal Engine 2.5 adds support for 64-bit Windows and 64-bit Linux operating systems. Improving and enhancing UnrealEd toolsets. One fork of the Engine is also highly optimized for the Xbox hardware shader pipeline based on a few graphical enhancements, The Xbox memory management system, Xbox GUI system, editor, and Xbox live support. These Xbox optimized features are integrated into the Unreal Engine 2X, but is an off-shoot of the Unreal Engine 2.5.

Engine Development Credits

Unreal Engine Core System Design

Tim Sweeney

Engine Development Management

Tim Sweeney

Engine Management System

Steven Polge

UnrealEd

Warran Mashall

Outsourcing Add Toolsets in UnrealEd

Demiurge Studios

Rendering Engine

Erik De Never
Daniel Vogel
Andrew Scheidecker
Sam Zamani

Rendering Middleware

PixoMatic Software Renderer
IDV's SpeedTreeRT

Adding Many Rendering Technologies Outsourcing

Demiurge Studios

Physics Engine

James Golding

Physics Middleware

MathEngine's Karma Physics Engine

Network Engine

Tim Sweeney

Sound Engine

Daniel Vogel

Sound Middleware

OpenAL Audio System

Music System

Ogg Vorbis

A.I. System

Steven Polge

Console Porting

Sam Zamani

Build Versions

PC Version (32-bit Windows, 32-bit Linux, 64-bit Windows, 64-bit Linux, MacOS X)

[Unreal Tournament 2004] Builds 2500~3369

Xbox Version

[Unreal Championship 2] v300~v313: also known as [Unreal Engine 2X] Builds 3357~3363

Engine Details

Included all of the Unreal Engine 2.0 features

Rendering Technologies

Direct3D 9 and same level of OpenGL support
While 2.5 does not make extensive use of Direct3D 9 and OpenGL 2 level of features, it does use the Direct3D 9 API and thus provides an easy starting point for licensees interested in adding Direct3D 9 and OpenGL 2 level of graphical features
UDN site Unreal Engine 2.5 support also features multipass bump-mapping (normal map/bump map/specular map/diffuse map/gloss map/environment map/opacity map/mask map etc), per-pixel lighting and per-pixel shading, virtual displacement mapping, high dynamic range rendering, soft shadows and other modern graphical features present in the Direct3D 9 and OpenGL 2 feature set
4096x4096 size texture support
Improvements rendering engine speed
Enhanced BSP/CSG and PVS/Portal world rendering technology and Scene graph and all Scene Management
Software rendering with Pixomatic software renderer (no additional cost)

Other Features

Included particle system editor
Voice-over IP support
Text-to-speech support
AI speech recognition
Vehicles optimized physics
Network code re-written
Enhancing physics performance
OC3 Entertainment's Impersonater (no additional cost)
Softimage's XSI Mod Tool Plug-in
Included IDV's SpeedTreeRT (no additional cost)
UDN site support on other toolsets, utilities and sample contents

Development Tools

UnrealEd 3
Ucc
UccDepend?
UDebugger
UPaint
Karma Authoring Tool
LIPSinc Animation Studio
Impersonator Studio

Projects

Announced Projects

Project	Developer	Release Date	Engine Build
[BioShock]	Irrational Games	–	Build 3369
[LandMass]	WayPoint	–	Build 3369
[Duke Nukem Forever]	3D Realms	–	Build 3369
[Ragnarok Online 2]	Gravity	–	Build 3369
[Priston Tale 2]	Yedang Online	–	Build 3369
[The Chronicles of Spellbone]	Spellborn International	–	Build 3369
[HoopWorld]	Streamline Studios	–	Build 3369
[Inferno]	Irrational Games / FXLabs Studios	–	Build 3369
[Red Steel 2]	Ubisoft	–	Build 3369

Released Projects

Project	Developer	Release Date	Engine Build
Unreal Tournament 2004	Epic Games / [Digital Extremes]	March 16, 2004	Build 3120-3369
Tribes: Vengeance	Irrational Games	October 5, 2004	Build 2500
[Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory]	Ubisoft Montreal (SinglePlayer / Co-op Mode) Ubisoft Annecy (Versus Mode)	PC / Xbox / PlayStation 2 – March 28, 2005 GameCube – March 31, 2005	SinglePlayer / Co-op Mode – Build 3339-3369 Versus Mode – Build 2226 (Unreal Engine 2.0)
[Unreal Championship 2: Liandri Conflict]	Epic Games	April 18, 2005	Build 3357-3363
Pariah	[Digital Extremes]	PC / Xbox – May 3, 2005	Build 3323
[America's Army v2.0: Special Forces] v2.4: Q-Course v2.5: Direct Action v2.6: Link-Up v2.7: Overmatch v2.8: Coalition	[US Army]	May 23, 2005	Build 3339-3369
[Swat 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate]	Irrational Games	Febraury 28, 2006	Build 2500
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45	Tripwire Interactive	March 14, 2006	Build 3323-3369
WarPath	[Digital Extremes]	PC – July 18, 2006 Xbox – July 24, 2006	Build 3323
[Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent]	Next-gen version developed by Ubisoft Shanghai Current-gen version developed by Ubisoft Montreal Next-gen version – PC / Xbox 360 Current-gen version – Xbox / PlayStation 2 / PlayStation 3 / GameCube / Wii	Xbox 360 – October 17, 2006 Xbox/PlayStation 2 – October 24, 2006 GameCube – October 26, 2006 PC – November 7, 2006 Wii – November 28, 2006 PlayStation 3 – Q2 2007	Build 3369
[Red Steel]	Ubisoft Paris	November 17, 2006	Build 3369
[Close Quarters Conflict]	Direct Action Games	January 22, 2007	Build 3369
[Vanguard: Saga of Heroes]	Sigil Games Online	January 30, 2007	Build 3369
[Redneck Kentucky and The Next Generation Chickens]	City Interactive	March 2, 2007	Build 3369