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Unreal Engine 4 now "Free" (no need to subscribe to see source code anymore)

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9 years ago
But there still the 5% thing for commercial games.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/03/03/unreal-tournament-free/#more-273887

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/ue4-is-free
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9 years ago
I dont think you need to use qoutes, the engine really is free as a beer if you dont have commercial game with high budget.

(indies dont have to pay, there is some sum in USD as a limit)
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Skasi
9 years ago
Limit is 3k$ from what I've heard. Also after this happened another big engine went free too I think, hmm which was it. Anyway, who's gonna port ZK?
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9 years ago
And now this: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/237853/Unity_5_released_with_upgrades_fullfeatured_free_version.php

" Unity 5 released with upgrades, full-featured free version "
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Skasi
9 years ago
Oh yeah, that one!
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LOL looks like all engine devs are releasing news... like Unity 5 mentioned above, now Valve Announce Source 2:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/03/04/valve-announce-source-2-because-why-not/#more-274161

P.S.: just to remember Torque_3D already Open Source too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque_%28game_engine%29#Torque_3D

UPDATE:Source 2 is going to be Free too.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/03/04/source-2-is-actually-free-like-for-free/#more-274363
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9 years ago
Aaand the Spring Engine (which is also free!) is soon releasing version 99.
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9 years ago
More important: opengl is not continued. Khoros does a fresh start. What's this for the engine in the long run. Is this discussed at the spring forums which I don't read?
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DErankAdminmojjj
Guess drives will still supporter OpenGL just for backward compatibility.
More info on OpenGL successor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_%28API%29

https://www.opengl.org/news/comments/khronos-group-full-vulkan-session-with-qa-now-on-youtube

https://www.khronos.org/news/press/khronos-reveals-vulkan-api-for-high-efficiency-graphics-and-compute-on-gpus
Looks like NVIDIA will support it, even if it's based on AMD's Mantle.

P.S.: Seem like Valve did help making it too, and Source 2 will be one of the first engine to use it. 1 2
“Industry standard APIs like Vulkan are a critical part of enabling developers to bring the best possible experience to customers on multiple platforms. Valve and the other Khronos members are working hard to ensure that this high-performance graphics interface is made available as widely as possible and we view it as a critical component of SteamOS and future Valve games.”
Gabe Newell - Valve https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/

P.S.2: At least OpenGL got Direct State Access (DSA) in core features before "dying", too bad Intel Drives do not support it (OpenGL v4.5).

P.S.3: only topic i did see on spring forum was this :
https://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=33233
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Just some more related news.
The Khronos Group's Vulkan, SPIR-V & OpenCL 2.1 Presentations:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Khronos-GDC-2015-Presentations

Vulkan slides:
https://www.khronos.org/assets/uploads/developers/library/2015-gdc/Khronos-Vulkan-GDC-Mar15.pdf

Valve Developed An Intel Linux Vulkan GPU Driver:
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?115218-Valve-Developed-An-Intel-Linux-Vulkan-GPU-Driver

NVIDIA Opens Up CPU-Based PhysX Code:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-Open-CPU-PhysX-Code
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9 years ago
Sounds awesome!
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PhysX SDK Source Code:
https://developer.nvidia.com/content/latest-physx-source-code-now-available-free-github

Prospects For Open-Source Engines Now That UE4/Source2/Unity Are Free?
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Open-Source-Engine-Prospects
Did find their comments interesting too.
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