What Is Unreal Engine?
Unreal Engine is the world's fastest-evolving game engine, the most powerful in visual fidelity, and the most widely used by companies. It is a game development engine for real-time game developers, allowing them to see their work as they develop a game.
Unreal Engine is geared toward 3D game development, unlike Unity, which focuses more on 2D. Unreal Engine provides an integrated suite of tools for professional game creation.
Unreal Engine system requirements:
- Operating system: iOS or Windows. You can run the program on either system. Unreal Engine runs on 64-bit Windows and is not compatible with 32-bit Windows.
- CPU: The Unreal Engine company has identified the processor best suited to running the program efficiently. A quad-core Intel or AMD processor running above 2.5 GHz is preferred.
- RAM: At least 8 GB of memory.
- GPU: You need an excellent graphics card, choosing between NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon.
- Visual Studio: A well-known program that comes with all game design programs and is also used independently.
Key features of Unreal Engine:
- Develop high-fidelity, technically advanced 3D games, with the ability to connect or combine 3D and 2D games.
- A very modern, high-performance rendering system that runs alongside other tasks and offers a precise balance of lighting and shadows.
- Unreal Engine is a powerful cinematic editing tool for controlling cameras, their movement, and the sequence of a game or recorded film.
- Unreal Engine supports animation by combining several tools to create complex, professional animations. It supports detailed bones alongside flesh and waist areas, allowing designers to create a realistic result.
- Unreal Engine's UI system supports highly flexible interface design and animation. It uses Widgets as the basic interface elements, such as buttons, checkboxes, and others.
- Unreal Engine includes an editing system within the game editor itself, allowing you to add and edit your videos and how they appear in the game professionally. It lets you control cameras and transitions as in other programs.
- Unreal Engine has its own visual effects editor, Niagara, which is the better of two options for creating visual effects in Unreal.
- Unreal Engine supports audio in highly professional ways. Sound is important for making a game feel believable and realistic.
- Unreal Engine controls the timing of commands and intelligently controls when health, ammunition, and other items should be obtained.
- A powerful physics system based on PhysX 3.3 for calculations, simulations, interactions, and collisions with objects and the surrounding environment.
- Many options and projects for building large open worlds filled with plants, animals, and more.
Information sources:
There are many documented resources from the Unreal Engine company that explain how to use the program. You can find them at the following link: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/
Unreal Engine supports the following platforms:
- Play Station 4
- Xbox One
- Nintendo Switch
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- HTML 5
- iOS
- Android
- Play Station VR
- Oculus Rift
- Samsung Gear VR
- Vive Port
- Magic leap
- Daydream
