Unreal Engine 4
Epic Games | 3.1.2Windows, Windows Server 2019 Base 1809 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Intuitive, feature rich and artist friendly
What do you like best about the product?
The Blueprint visual scripting system is very easy to use and powerful, entire games can and should be built within blueprint.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of intuitive level modelling tools; it would be nice to have some more spline based tools
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Learning the skill of level design and game building
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Blueprints are the most creatively empowering aspect of the engine as a non-programmer so they are worth learning.
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Software that is limited strictly by your imagination
What do you like best about the product?
The Unreal engine is a spectacular software that continues to evolve. Epic Games has made a huge leap coming from their previous engine, UDK (Unreal Development Kit). The best part about this software is there is such little cost, especially if you plan to sell a game. I've followed the development of this software for a long time and dabbled with it plenty of times to say that I wouldn't consider using another game engine.
What do you dislike about the product?
A big con of this massive beast that is the Unreal engine is that it can be difficult to learn. Epic Games has at least built a community with online forums and partial documentation within the software. However, I'm sure as development continues they still expand their Knowledgbase for entry designers to bring their ideas to life with ease. There are tools in place to make your life easier, but I feel like they only scratch the surface and may make you feel lost when you try to go beyond the basics.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest benefit is the payment model that Epic Games has in place for selling games made with their engine. They now have a generous payment plan and they collect minimal fees in comparison to their payment plan before with UDK. This should definitely encourage new game designers to get their feet wet in the industry.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't be ddiscouraged by the plethora of tools. Take the time to look through the documentation. Epic Games has tutorials specific to types of games.
Unreal is a lot of fun, incredibly powerful, and was vastly important to my artistic career!
What do you like best about the product?
I love how complex yet accessible it is.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be a bit bloated for smaller games
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I love that the engine is free as I am using it for educational and experimentation purposes. In the future I intend on creating games using the engine, so I often think about the payment I'm required to give to Epic if my game makes enough money. Regardless, I tend to think it is definitely worth it in the end.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
As I had mentioned prior, UE4 is very complex and powerful while also being accessible at the same time. It does not patronize you with hand-holding and it lets you mess with everything it's got. Compared to engines like Unity which feel a lot more like a beginner's game engine, UE4 feels like I can do whatever I want, and the more I mess around and experiment in the engine, the more I find that it's true. I primarily use the engine to create particle effects and set dress environments, but I also have much experience using the shaders and programming parts of the engine as well. Sometimes using these tools may feel overwhelming, but in the end, mastering these tools means you can create just about anything you could imagine.
Unreal Engine personal experience review
What do you like best about the product?
Unreal Engine has been a great tool for my Game Development projects. The interface creates a smooth workflow for my needs to rough out and then polish a level. Unreal's tools are extremely useful and solve many problems that improve the ease of the entire teams tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not much I can really say I dislike, there are a few technical issues I run across rarely. As an individual that is not a programmer, I would like to see more resources that can make an artist and designer like my self to add more functionality to our ideas.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Working with Unreal has given me a great tool. It has allowed our team to improve our game play through detailed revision made easy with Unreal's tools.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Unreal's tools are the great for any game developers looking to produce a realistic and high quality experience.
A Great Engine for making something beautiful and very accessible
What do you like best about the product?
The thing I've always admired about Unreal over it's competitors is the combination of the out of the box beauty and the relative ease of use in everything from level sculpting / world building to getting actual implementation functioning using tools like blueprint . No game Engine does a better job of making a developer feel like they have the potential to craft the next Gears of War or Batman Arkham game than unreal does. Almost as if you are handing the developers the legos to form a masterpiecce with.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Unreals community is much improved over what it was in its early days there's still a lot to be desired . For me Modularity and importing components for a game feels a lot more challenging than how I could export and import packages into new projects in Unity. Also While Unreal is great it takes time for a person whose never developed games to wrap their head around it . I definitely think it's vastly open nature can be intimidating to the inexperienced but that can be said of almost any position or tool in game development , the willing will push to learn a good application .
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At the moment Unreal has a large interest boom in the VR space and so I have re-opened it just to be re-acquainted with the engine and gain some marketability. I think it's good to stick your hands in a new toolset every often , it keeps you sharp and I have been able to make solid simple prototypes using it .
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure to become an active user in the Unreal community, the more solid contributors the better and it's a great resource if you need some direction .
Unreal Engine is a great tool for games
What do you like best about the product?
Once you learn the interface (which has many help features), the potential for what you can do seems almost limitless. I like that there are many options for editing each aspect of an asset, light, camera, landscape, you name it. There are many tools within the editor such as the landscape tool, foliage brush, cascade, matinee, blueprint, that allow you to customize your project in different ways.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the tools I mentioned are more difficult to understand or get to work correctly than others. Luckily there is lots of documentation on each subject but for instance if there is something very specific you want to do in blueprint it can be very hard to figure it out with only the documentation available, so some background knowledge of certain aspects may benefit you more.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Unreal Engine gives me a place to practice making art that would work in actual game development situations and explore various areas of game creation such as level design, programming, cinematography, and VFX. I believe learning to use Unreal can give you skills that you can apply to other game engines if needed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is free so you might as well try it if you have any interest. There are lots of tutorials, examples, and documentation online to help with all aspects of Unreal Engine. There are also many things available on the Marketplace that you can look at to get additional help.
Unbeatable quality experiance
What do you like best about the product?
The UE4 has its own unique style. The quality in real-time is unbeatable. Blue prints are easier to learn and user friendly. Materials gives the real object feel.
What do you dislike about the product?
The update is not stable often. (nearly a update per week). The FPS for oculus is less and stereo mode problem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We operates in the domain of Augmented and Virtual Reality. Our work enables business organisation to take advantage of the ever evolving technology space. We develop the simulating at surreal virtual experience to allowing you to explore an exciting digital reality.
Unreal Engine is an insanely powerful tool for Indie Devs and AAA Devs alike!
What do you like best about the product?
Unreal Engine is a very powerful game engine that has the capability to make amazing games.
Unreal Engine's Blueprint programming language makes it possible to program games without ever having to touch a single line of C++. This feature in combination with the plethora of official and community made tutorials, makes the barrier of entry for game development incredibly low, and allows almost anyone who is willing to put the work in, to make amazing experiences.
For more experienced developers and programmers, Unreal Engine 4 allows full access to their source code allowing you to change and edit the engine to your hearts content. If you create a feature that you want to share you can also send it to the devs and they may even add it to the official engine!
Unreal Engine's Blueprint programming language makes it possible to program games without ever having to touch a single line of C++. This feature in combination with the plethora of official and community made tutorials, makes the barrier of entry for game development incredibly low, and allows almost anyone who is willing to put the work in, to make amazing experiences.
For more experienced developers and programmers, Unreal Engine 4 allows full access to their source code allowing you to change and edit the engine to your hearts content. If you create a feature that you want to share you can also send it to the devs and they may even add it to the official engine!
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I would call out as a negative about UE4 is that updates and bug fixes can be a little slow to come out. Other than that it is all about learning how -to make games!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This engine allows us to create amazing games without having to pay upfront for a license.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Unreal Engine is an amazing, free game engine that makes it possible to create amazing experiences even if you are a small developer. I personally would reccommend this engine to anyone looking to get into game development, but would still advise that you look at the different engines available and make sure that the engine is a good fit for the game you are trying to / thinking about making.
Powerful game engine with all the bells and whistles
What do you like best about the product?
Very powerful engine with almost all features you need out of the box.
What do you dislike about the product?
Opinionated engine that forces some Epic/Unreal specific setup when that level of abstraction is not needed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A powerful engine that can be used for both prototyping and finished product.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a very powerful engine that requires a lot of time to understand how to use it correctly. Takes a bit of time to get going as opposed to Unity 3D which lets users get started much more quickly. The binary asset types make collaborating a pain and it is very difficult to build core gameplay mechanics unless one person is working on everything while no one else touches anything.
Easy to use and create games with
What do you like best about the product?
I love that in unreal you do not have to be a programmer to create amazing games that do not only looks amazing but can have great game play as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike the need to export each asset separately. Unity lets you just save Modo files in the game content and you can drag them out from there. Instead of having to export 100s of FBXs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With blueprinting it helps me be able to create a awesome game with out having to be a programmer.
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