Of course you can. :) Actually, doing a project in any new tech is the best way to learn it imo. If it's what employers are using, you should make every effort to use it too. edit: Wow this thread is moving fast...
So, turns out that one can comfortably run UE4 on a >300W PC with a fast dual-core :D Now, to practice all this new stuff.. Not sure if it's been asked somewhere in this thread, but are there any tutorials or timelapses or anything of a full asset workflow e.g. blank Max scene to finished asset in UE4 with awesome material?
In case you had any doubt as to how fast this can be once you've got the blueprint set up, here's a render with several more static lights reflected in metal: And here's the sky behind me: You can estimate how long it took based on the time between posts, and perhaps something inferred about upload and typing speeds.
Camera moved too fast in that demo, add motion blur and video compression to that it was really hard to see anything well in that destruction flyby because of the blurriness. Only shot I did like however was with SSS. Better pics here: http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2013/02/this-is-unreal-engine-4-running-on.html Also what…