CryEngine 3 free SDK

roosterMAP

Crytek announced that the CryEngine 3 Educational License is now available for free. Just shoot them an email and see if you qualify! (like, if ur involved in an ambitious project/mod). It says u can only get it if ur an "educator." But a friend of mine has proven this not completely true. lol

http://www.crytek.com/news/news/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=165&tx_ttnews[backPid]=1&cHash=8966bc7019

Im very excited because CE3 allows you to swetch between differed and forward rendering systems on the fly! YAY for REAL-TIME GLOBAL LIGHTING!!!

http://mycryengine.com/index.php?conid=42

ZacD

I like this "free UDK" phrase I keep on hearing.

No light baking means I might have to try to learn the cry engine instead of the Unreal

oXYnary

Are you sure its not because your friend might have been a student or something? I'm pretty sure that small indies that are not educational based and are not students do not apply.

PeterK

Your thread topic is misleading.

It's not free, it's a focused license that does not allow commercial projects (according to the CRYTEK website).

roosterMAP

Ya, I now realize that I shouldn't have named it as "free." I wish I could change it now.

PeterK

I just really wanted it to be true,

CrazyMatt

Chances of it becoming free, are after Crytek releases Crysis 2. Which is the first public title to utilize the Cryengine 3.

3DLee

Indeed, I can't wait to get my hands on it. I just got my February PC Gamer in the mail, and it had the first two screens of Crysis 2 ever released. One of them was a public park in a more temperate wooded environment... freakin' awesome looking!

Elhrrah

If my job actually gave people official email's, I could get this. . .