Good 3d render/engine for macs? Like UDK?
polycounter lvl 10
Hey, I am on vacationing at the moment, and all my good hardware is miles away. All I have is my MacBook pro. I want keep practicing my 3d environment skills, but all I have is unity 3d at the moment. And it doesn't seem to have the type of graphical processing as udk. Any alternatives you guys know about do that I can practice making assets?
I've tried unity and.... I'm pretty much not convinced yet that it's a good visual engine. Just more of a great game engine.
I've tried unity and.... I'm pretty much not convinced yet that it's a good visual engine. Just more of a great game engine.
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http://www.terathon.com/c4engine/index.php
The samples on the site might give wrong impression. It's actually very capable graphics wise. The engine also uses a very similar shader node system as in UDK.
The downloadable demo comes with the full game editor so artists can use it for free (coding a full game requires a license).
One thing to keep in mind is that it doesn't really support or bake lightmapslike UDK and Unity do. In C4 it's dynamic lights or nothing.
http://janbubenik.blogspot.com/2010/10/3d-scan-skin-shading.html
You can run it on apple hardware if you boot it in windows, but osx? No, The unreal engine uses directx, a microsoft only app. It'd be huge news and take a lot of time, and you'd probably start to hear unreal games being announced on osx, but that is not the case.
EDIT
Oh, I was a bit wrong, they are getting the engine to work on osx, games but no udk yet.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/19/unreal-engine-3-comes-to-mac-os-x-courtesy-of-september-udk-rel/