Unreal Engine Versions/3

Engine Development Credits

Unreal Engine Core System Design

Tim Sweeney

Engine Development Management

Tim Sweeney

Many Technologies Director

Tim Sweeney

Engine Management System

Steven Polge

UnrealEd

Warren Marshall

External Toolsets in UnrealEd

Many Middleware's Toolsets

Rendering Engine

Erik De Neve
Daniel Vogel
Andrew Scheidecker
Sam Zamani
Tim Johnson
All included Artificial Studios's Reality Engine's Technologies

Rendering Middleware

OC3 Entertainment's FaceFX Technology (no additional cost)
Digimask's Digimask SDK
Interactive Data Visualization's SpeedTreeRT
Geomerics's Enlighten (no additional cost)
Allegorithmic's ProFX (no additional cost)

Physics Engine

James Golding

Physics Middleware

Ageia's PhysX (no additional cost)

Network Engine

Steven Polge

Network Middleware

Quazal Technologies's Rendez-Vous
Quazal Technologies's Spark

Sound Engine

Daniel Vogel

Sound Middleware

OpenAL Audio System
Fonix Speech's VoiceIn Technology

Music System

Ogg Vorbis

A.I. System

Steven Polge

A.I. Middleware

Engenuity's AI Implant (no additional cost)
Kynogon's Kynapse A.I. (no additional cost)

Console Porting

Josh Adams
Dave Burke
Ron Prestenback
Scott Sherman
Niklas Smedberg
Sam Zamani
Daniel Wright

Unreal Engine 3 Integrated Partners Program (Unreal Engine 3 IPP) List and Announced Date

The Unreal Engine 3 Integrated Partners Program is a program designed to help developers take advantage of 3rd party technologies, with guaranteed support and compatibility for the most popular game engine this generation. Epic is selecting companies whose software is cross-platform compatible and complements the goals of Unreal Engine 3. IPP members have full access to Unreal Engine 3 source code and updates.

Ageia's PhysX (February 23, 2004)
OC3 Entertainment's FaceFX Technology (October 18, 2005)
RAD Game Tools's Bink Video (Semtember 25, 2006)
Quazal Technologies's Rendez-Vous (September 28, 2006)
Quazal Technologies's Spark (September 28, 2006)
Fonix Speech's VoiceIn (October 2, 2006)
Engenuity's AI Implant (October 3, 2006)
Interactive Data Visualization's SpeedTreeRT (October 5, 2006)
Digimask's Digimask SDK (November 1, 2006)
Kynogon's Kynapse A.I. (November 2, 2006)
Geomerics's Enlighten (February 19, 2007)
Allegorithmic's ProFX (March 1, 2007)

Build Versions

PC Version

[Unreal Engine 3] Builds 3500~? (32-bit Windows XP/Vista, 32-bit Linux, 64-bit Windows XP/Vista, 64-bit Linux, 32-bit Mac OS X, 64-bit Mac OS X)

Xbox 360 Version

[Unreal Engine 3] Builds 3500~?

PlayStation 3 Version

[Unreal Engine 3] Builds 3500~?

Engine Details

Rendering Technologies

Direct3D 9/10, OpenGL 2 support
Improved and enhanced hybrid scene management
64-bit and 128-bit color High Dynamic Range lighting and rendering pipeline
- Full day-night cycle with sunrise and sunset effects
Many post-processing effects
- Light bloom
- Lenticular halos
- Depth-of-field
- Motion blur
  - Full scene
  - Object-base
  - Some scene
- Image based lighting
- Image based rendering
- Many more
New LOD system
- Dynamically deformable terrain rendering system
  - With 'real' displacement mapping (a.k.a. vertex texture fetch or dynamic vertex texturing)
- Dynamic LOD for all meshes
- Full dynamic object for all environments
Terrain system
- With LOD
- With height-mapped
- With voxel rendering
- Procedural vegetation layer
  - Included Interactive Data Visualization's SpeedTreeRT (Unreal Engine 3 IPP)
- Seamlessly interconnected indoor and outdoor environments
Many shadowing techniquies
- 100% fully dynamic real-time fuzzy soft shadows for all environments
- 16x sampled shadow depth buffers for characters
- Stencil shadow volumes for dynamic lights
- Pre-computed shadow-masks for static lights
- With self-shadowing
  - With all normal mapping techniquies
  - With all displacement mapping techniquies
- With all lighting techniquies
- Many more soft shadowing techniquies
Support for shader models 2, 3 and 4
- Geometry shader support
Support for shader model 5 with OpenGL 2.x and DirectX 10.1 (SOON)
Extensible material shader system
- HLSL, CG, GLSL shader language support
Deferred shading
Many volumetric effects
- Height fog
- Height water
- Height fire
Advanced extensible particle system
- Soft particles
  - Volumetric particles
    - Volumetric explosions
    - Volumetric clouds
    - Volumetric fire
    - Volumetric water drop
    - Volumetric blood
    - Volumetric dust
    - Volumetric rain
    - Volumetric snow
    - Volumetric hail
    - Many more
- Voxel-based particle effects
Many per-pixel lighting techniquies
- Parameterized phong shading
- Spherical harmonic lighting
  - Real-time spherical harmonic maps for all lighting types
- Real-time ambient lighting
  - Real-time ambient maps for all lighting types
- Radiosity lighting
  - Fully real-time PRT(Precomputed Radiance Transfer) radiosity pipeline support
- Global illumination
  - Fully real-time true beam tracing global illumination for dynamic lights
  - Included Geomerics's Enlighten (Unreal Engine 3 IPP)
- Volumetric lighting
- Sub-surface scattering
- Real-time point light
- Real-time sun light
- Real-time directional light
- Real-time spot light
- Real-time diffuse light
- Real-time specular light
- Real-time shiny light
- Real-time gloss light
- Real-time opacity light
- Real-time spread light
- Real-time emissive light
- Real-time light beams
- Real-time light shafts
- Many more lighting techniquies
Many normal mapping techniquies
- Parallax mapping
  - Steep parallax mapping
  - Bump offset mapping
- Offset mapping
  - Per-pixel displacement mapping with distance function
  - Parallax mapping with offset limiting
  - Relief mapping
- Relief texture mapping
  - View dependent displacement mapping
  - Relief texture method
  - Virtual displacement mapping
- With self-shadowing
- With z-bias correction
'Real' displacement mapping (a.k.a. vertex textures fetch or dynamic vertex texturing)
- With LOD based tesseration and deformation
- With real-time lighting
- Displacement mapped water effects
- Displacement mapped snowy effects
Voxel rendering system
- Voxel-based terrain
- Vexel-based environment
- Voxel objects
- Voxel rendering system for hardware accelated
  - Static voxel objects
  - Dynamic voxel objects
Real-time fully dynamic weather effects including rainy, snowy, windy, hail and cloudy with volumetrically and physically, interactivity in environments
64-bit colored 8192x8192 size texture support
Latest builds version for support texture color and resolution up to 128-bit colored 16384x16384
Non-power-of-two size texture support
Anti-tiling techniques such as advanced modified ClipTexturing and more technologies
Many animation system
- Vertex animation
- Skeletal animation
- Smooth-skinned geometry
  - With LOD
  - Procedural skeletal controllers
  - Procedural motion warping
- Included OC3 Entertainment's FaceFX Technology (Unreal Engine 3 IPP)
- Included Digimask's Digimask SDK (Unreal Engine 3 IPP)

Other Features

Very flexibility and extensible Unreal Engine Core System Technology
- 100% pure Unreal Engine 3 source code (it's not FPS based engine), editing toolsets and utilities
- C++ Modulaty
  - Distinctly separation game modules, engine modules and all of the entirely fine parts modules
    - But very interlocked functioning on all of modules
    - Very flexibility expansions of add/modify/extending new modules
- UnrealScript based networked engine management system
  - No hard-limited native source controls for very interlocked functioning on all of modules
    - Very easily user customizations for MODDING
  - All UnrealScript plug-in modules are use at once in UnrealEd
  - All UnrealScript plug-in modules codes add/modify/extending for in script editor for UnrealEd
    - All UnrealScript coding at in the visual scripting editor for UnrealEd
UnrealCascade extensible particle system with visual editor
UnrealMatinee cutscene toolset vast improving
UnrealKismet visual scripting editor for UnrealEd
Vast improved visual material shader editor for UnrealEd
Improved GUI editor
Offline rendering system
Network-level editing system
Play In Editor real-time editing for immediate in-game WYSIWYG editing functions for UnrealEd
AnimTree advanced WYSIWYG real-time animation tree editing toolset for UnrealEd
AnimSet advanced WYSIWYG real-time animation sequence setting toolset for UnrealEd
UnrealPhAT advanced WYSIWYG real-time physics editor for UnrealEd
Included AGEIA's PhysX physics engine (Unreal Engine 3 IPP)
Physics-based animation
Vast improved advanced WYSIWYG real-time terrain editing toolset for UnrealEd
COLLADA import pipeline
SoundQue dynamic environmental audio system toolset for UnrealEd
Advanced dynamic environmental audio system for perfective in mixing
- Interactive dynamic music
- Dynamic environmental sound
Dynamic streaming system
- Seamless loading system
- Background loading system
- zone-based loading system
Fully multi-threaded rendering and all of it
Included all of the technologies of Reality Engine
Enhancing Real-time recording of in-engine footage as replayable 'demo' files
Support for processing those demo files into DivX movies (DivX library license separately)
Support for processing those demo files into Bink Video (Unreal Engine 3 IPP)
3D Studio MAX, MAYA and Softimage's XSI MOD Tool Plug-ins
Client-server model supporting up to 64 players as provided
Included Quazal Technologies's Rendez-Vous (Unreal Engine 3 IPP)
Included Quazal Technologies's Spark (Unreal Engine 3 IPP)
Included Fonix Speech's VoiceIn Technology (Unreal Engine 3 IPP)
Advanced customizable A.I. system
- Customization of dynamic path-finding system
- Customization of BOT A.I. system
- Customization of teamwork A.I. system
- Customization of vehicles A.I. system
- Customization of singleplayer-based games A.I. system
Included Engenuity's AI Implant (Unreal Engine 3 IPP)
Included Kynogon's Kynapse A.I. middleware solution (Unreal Engine 3 IPP)
Real-Time performancing analysis toolset

Development Tools

UnrealEd
Ucc

Projects

Announced Projects

Currently developing with uses Unreal Engine 3 games on over than 600 more titles

Project	Developer	Release Date	Engine Build
[All Points Bulletin]	Real Time Worlds	–	–
America's Army v3.0	U.S. Army	–	–
America's Army: Real Heroes	U.S. Army	–	–
[A.V.A.]	Red Duck	–	–
A4 (codename)	AniPark	–	–
[BioShock]	Irrational Games	–	–
Triple-A (codename)	Bedlam Games	–	–
[BlackSite: Area 51]	Midwady	–	–
B-Project (codename)	CJIG	–	–
Black Powder Red Earth	Echelon Studios	–	–
[Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway]	Gearbox Software	–	–
[Crimecraft]	Vogster Entertainment	–	–
Daybreakers	Trilogy Studios	–	–
DC Comics/Universe Online (untitled)	Sony Online Entertainment	–	–
Dead Space	Electronic Arts	–	–
Earth No More	Recoil Games	–	–
Empire	Chair Entertainment	–	–
End All Wars	Kuju Entertainment	–	–
[Elveon]	10Tacle Studios	–	–
EverQuest 3	Sony Online Entertainment	–	–
Fall of Liberty	Spark Unlimited	–	–
Fatal Inertia	Koei	–	–
[Frontlines: Fuel of War]	KAOS	–	–
[Fury]	Auran	–	–
[Global Agenda]	Hi-Rez Studios	–	–
[Halo Wars]	Ensemble Studios	–	–
Hei$t	inXile Entertainment	–	–
Hour of Victory	Midway	–	–
[Huxley]	Webzen	–	–
Interstellar Marines	Zero Point Software	–	–
Lineage 3	NC Soft	–	–
[Lost Odyssey]	Mistwalker	–	–
Magna Carta 2	Softmax	–	–
[Mass Effect]	BioWare	–	–
Medal of Honor: Airborne	Electronic Arts Los Angeles	–	–
Mortal Kombat 8	Midway	–	–
Parabellum	Acony	–	–
Sephiroth 2	Imagic Entertainment	–	–
Project M (codename)	Red Duck	–	–
Project M (codename)	NC Soft	–	–
unannounced Online FPS Project	NC Soft	–	–
unannounced Online FPS Project	SK i-media	–	–
unannounced MMORPG Project	NC Soft	–	–
unannounced Online Casual Game Project	NC Soft	–	–
Project New Jersey	Obsidian Entertainment	–	–
Rogue Warrior	Zombie Studios	–	–
Section 8	Timegate Studios	–	–
Sony Online Mercenary MMO (untitled)	Sony Online Entertainment	–	–
The Agency	Sony Online Entertainment	–	–
Sony Online Whimsical MMO (untitled)	Sony Online Entertainment	–	–
Stargate Worlds	Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment	–	–
[Stranglehold]	Tiger Hill Entertainment	–	–
Swat 5	Videndi Universal Games	–	–
The Last Remnant	Square Enix	–	–
Tom Clancy's EndWar	Ubisoft	–	–
Tom Clancy's Firehawk	Ubisoft	–	–
[Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2]	Ubisoft	–	–
[Too Human]	[Silicon Knights]	–	–
new Turok	Propaganda Games	–	–
Undertow	Chair Entertainment	–	–
Unreal Tournament 3	Epic Games	–	–
Vanguard: Second Expansion Pak	Sigil Games Online	–	–
Warmonger	NetDevil	–	–
[Wheelman]	Tigon Studios	–	–
new X-COM	Irrational Games	–	–

Released Projects

Project	Developer	Release Date	Engine Build
[Roboblitz]	[Naked Sky Entertainment]	PC – November 6, 2006 Xbox 360 – December 6, 2006	–
[Gears of War]	Epic Games	November 7, 2006	–
[Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas]	Ubisoft Montreal	Xbox 360 – November 20, 2006 PC – December 12, 2006 PS3 / PSP – January 30, 2007	–
[Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia]	Southpeak Interactive	June 12, 2007	–

Non-gaming Projects

Unreal Engine 3 Runtime Custom License is used in many non-gaming projects including construction simulation and design, training simulation, driving simulation, virtual reality shopping malls, movie storyboards, continuity, pre-visual, etc. According to Mark Rein, no such license exists from the architecture. The only form available is Unreal Engine 3 with the toolset and sourcecode meant for games.

License Companies

Single License Companies

2015
Perception
Tripwire Interactive

Multiple Licenses Companies

Activision
AniPark
Atari
Artificial Studios
Bethesda Softworks
Buena Vista Games
Capcom
Chair Entertainment
CJ Entertainment
Codemasters
Cranky Pants Games
Eidos Interactive
Electronic Arts
Foundation 9 Entertainment
Gearbox Software
GlyphX
Groove Games
High Moon Studios
Hi-Rez Studios
Imagic Entertainment
inXile Entertainment
Irrational Games
Jowood Productions
Koei
Konami
Kuju Entertainment
Lucky Chicken Games
Mad Dog
Majesco Games
Microsoft Game Studios
Midway Games
Mind Control Software
Namco Bandai Games
NASA
NC Soft
Nikitova
NetDevil
NHN
Real Time Worlds
Recoil Games
Rocksteady Studios
Red Duck
Sega
Sigil Games Online
Softmax
Sony Computer Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment
Spark Unlimited
Spellborn International
Streamline Studios
Square Enix
SK i-media
Surreal Software
Take Two Interactive
THQ
Tiger Hill Entertainment
Tigon Studios
TimeGate Studios
TQ Digital Entertainment
Trilogy Studios
Ubisoft
Virtual Heroes
Vision Studios
Vivendi Universal Games
Webzen
Yager Development
Zombie Studios