August UDK release

Gilgamesh

August 2011 UDK Beta Upgrade Notes

New Movie Capture System

• Integrated Matinee and in game movie capture
  • Matinees can be captured to AVI via a new button on the Matinee toolbar
  • A running game can be captured to AVI via the console commands "StartMovieCapture" and "StopMovieCapture"

Material Functions

• Material Functions allow snippets of material graphs to be saved separately and shared between multiple materials
  • Functions can be exposed to the function library, which is a new categorized window in the material editor
  • Many new material functions have been added to the engine's function library

Material Editor Improvements

• An improved error display listing the error node type and highlighting the offending node in red
• Now supports marking by shift clicking connectors, which allows making connections across large materials without dragging
• Landscape shader compiler time improvements in the material editor
  • In a test case, compilation time was 2.25 times faster

Culling Foliage Instances Based on Distance

• New "StartCullDistance" and "EndCullDistance" parameters for culling foliage instances based on distance
  • At "EndCullDistance", entire clusters of instances are coarsely culled using "MaxDrawDistance"
  • From "StartCullDistance" a per-instance opacity value from 1-0 is generated in vertex color alpha, for use by the material to fade out the foliage

Adaptive Tessellation

• Users can now dynamically tessellate meshes based on screen space size

Editor Improvements

• New slider for Alpha in the Mesh Paint dialog
• Improved Editor Startup
  • Greatly improved editor startup times due to faster Game Asset Database downloads
  • No longer steals keyboard focus when starting up
  • Shows better status information while starting up
• New "Cancel" button to the Slow Tasks and progress dialogs
• You can now select all Actors referenced by Kismet in All Levels
• New ability to set and jump to bookmarks to the editor viewport and Kismet toolbar dropdowns.
• Improved foliage window scrolling behavior - only the mesh list scrolls, with the painting parameters fixed
• LOD UV settings in the Static Mesh Editor are now maintained after importing a new LOD
• SpeedTrees can now be placed while in StaticMesh mode
• "Undo" and "redo" are now supported for changes to the DrawScale boxes on the status bar below editor viewports
• New option in editor preferences menu that, when enabled, causes BSP to auto-update after modifying a brush
  • This option is also togglable through the "Alt+Ctrl+U" keyboard shortcut
  • Geometry should still be rebuilt prior to playing the level

Unreal Matinee Improvements

• Users can now name Matinee director tracks, and optionally display these names in the game viewport
• Now includes an Export Animation Track Info option. This exports the director track and animation sequences along with all keyframe data to a simple text file.

Other Improvements

• Unreal Cascade
  • New "WarmupTickTime" member allows users to specify update time for the warmup ticks
  • New Initial World Offset Particle Module includes seeded and not seeded versions
  • Support for 'Color' instance parameters when retrieving particle parameters via "GetColorParameter"
  • Auto-activated particles are no longer reset when resetting all particles in a level
  • Set particle velocity from movement generated by the orbit module
  • Mobile: Removed forcibly setting particle system LOD levels to the lowest detail
• AnimSet Viewer
  • New FoV slider (fully settable range 5 - 170), FoV reset button, and FoV viewport info
  • New drop-downs in toolbar enable viewing specific chunks and sections of a skeletal mesh
  • Removing prefix from selected AnimSequence now supported
• iCloud document saving for iOS is now supported
• Using alternate bone weights in SkeletalMeshes simplified using Simplygon now supported
• Material vertex shaders now support local to world transform translation
• The SkinXX syntax for SkeletalMeshes is now supported in the FBX pipeline with or without materials

Oniram

thanks but its been posted in general discussion already. its even been posted on the news section