Unreal engine info

[Kako]

I'm looking for info on how the unreal engine came to be. I briefly read somewhere that a guy worked on it for years in his basement programming. If anyone has any links of articles about who programmed it, please do share. Thanks.

 

[SCSI-Terminator]

Well, start with this "History of Unreal" primer. Should take you a while to chew.

 

[gerbiaNem]

I had to quote that 1998 article lol:

"3D Realms dumped the Quake II engine in favor of Unreal for its upcoming release Duke Nukem Forever."

 

[Trimlock]

i remember when it did that, the quake2 engine cost too much haha

 

[LuminaryJanitor]

Man, that was a long time ago... When 3DRealms first licenced the QuakeII engine (1997?), one of its major selling points was "Coloured Lights!"

 

[SlamDunk]

http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/wiki/Unreal_Engine_Versions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_engine

I remember reading a magazine article (in the 90's) about Epic Games and Unreal that the whole thing started when they started to experiment with a polygonal and textured "3D engine", just to see if they can do it.

 

[HHunt]

Man, that was a long time ago... When 3DRealms first licenced the QuakeII engine (1997?), one of its major selling points was "Coloured Lights!"

Heh, yeah. I remember that.
Did glQuake have that, or was it just "lights" that set it apart?
(Either way, it looked impressive compared to straight quake.)

 

[DragonNOA1]

Nice links everyone. Thanks. They are good reads when you are bored at work.

 

[Trimlock]

Did glQuake have that, or was it just "lights" that set it apart?

i know it introduced AF, it was like "hey, at first the wall was a bunch of squares, but it says something?!"

 

[LuminaryJanitor]

I don't think it had AF... I'm pretty sure that's a more recent development. It was probably bilinear filtering (possibly trilinear as well, but I'm not sure).