Unreal

• What is unreal?
  • A game engine.
  • An integrated development environment.
  • A set of libraries
  • A new religion.
• Game engine
  • Rendering engine
    • a high level application that uses underlying graphics APIs
    • A scene graph to organize the components.
    • Other libraries like radiosity and ray tracing
    • Supporting software
  • Audio engine
    • Load and play audio files
    • Audio manipulation effects
  • Physics engine
    • Collisions
    • Gravity
  • AI engine
  • And more.
• Unreal is all of these
  • Generates executable for MANY different platforms.
  • Written in C++
  • Supports code in both C++ and "blueprints".
  • Manages the organization of assets.
  • And Much more
• Unreal is supported by
  • A large "markeplace"
    • Game assets for sale
    • Some are free.
  • A large set of courses
    • More on that soon.
• You have full access to the unreal source code.
• Free to use until a minimal sales threshold.
  • The basic license "This license is free to use and incurs 5% royalties when you monetize your game or other interactive off-the-shelf product and your gross revenues from that product exceed $3,000 per quarter. "