After seeing both demos for Unreal engine 4 which is awesome and Luminous engine which was breathtaking.Gat to admit luminous engine looks better than Unreal 4 but might be harder to use to make games. What is ur opinion about the engines u saw?BTW,is unreal engine 4 free like unreal engine 3?
The UDK Samaritan Demo was more similar to the luminous demo, the unreal 4 was demoed from a more tech perspective. The 2 videos are like comparing apples to oranges. We don't know how much of the luminous was "baked" or animated, or how much was real time and simulated. Unreal's demo didn't even attempt to showcase hair…
It doesn't seem there are any plans to distribute Luminous outside of Square while it is very likely that UE4 will get the UDK treatment. That's the most important distinction.
Really, its comparing apples to oranges right now. You can say that Luminous looks soo much better..but its a non interactive sequence that is only designed to show off graphics. It was a cinematic, every shot was well composed and prepared specifically to be seen at one angle, whereas the ue4 demo targeted specific tools…
Actually Square said they will offer the Luminous engine to any contracted studios as well (like N-Space). So if you work for any studios affiliated with them there's a good chance you may eventually get to try it.
This almost seems like the sort of thing gamer "experts" argue about in Kotaku comments... The only thing that really matters to us is which has the best balance of power/features to ease of use. We'll probably get to find that out for UE4 (as they've even shown some of it), but not for the Luminous engine.
more apple and oranges comments please ! i cracked up on seeing it reocur. UE4 looks a bit more western , Lumin is ofc asia-ish. all based on the artwork. The thing is we never got to know how many polys´and so on they were running att realtime. Kinda easy to say "hey this interactive movie is better than this".
Watched this demo video for Unreal engine 4.Sweet!!!I think the luminous engine won't be made available to the public,probably to game studios.I also wanted to ask have Unreal engine 4 editor pc requirements been released yet? [ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHOz5spXVUE"]Unreal Engine 4 - Exclusive Development Video…