Unreal Engine 4 Is Free: A Message from Tim Sweeney

[tommybhoy]

Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free, and all future updates will be free!

You can download the engine and use it for everything from game development, education, architecture, and visualization to VR, film and animation. When you ship a game or application, you pay a 5% royalty on gross revenue after the first $3,000 per product, per quarter. It’s a simple arrangement in which we succeed only when you succeed.

This is the complete technology we use at Epic when building our own games. It scales from indie projects to high-end blockbusters; it supports all the major platforms; and it includes 100% of the C++ source code. Our goal is to give you absolutely everything, so that you can do anything and be in control of your schedule and your destiny. Whatever you require to build and ship your game, you can find it in UE4, source it in the Marketplace, or build it yourself – and then share it with others.

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/ue4-is-free

 

[snips86x]

There's a thread for this already mate

 

[tommybhoy]

Ta, it'll get closed/shifted then.

 

[Spuddy]

Would be epic if I knew how to actually use it...

 

[humbug]

Worth a punt

 

[kissenger]

you pay a 5% royalty on gross revenue after the first $3,000 per product, per quarter.

Sounded like a great thing until I read this bit. Five percent could be less than any potential profit margin, or at least eat up a big chunk of it, if you were thinking of trying to make a commercial product with it.

Still good for novices who want to learn programming, game design, etc, though.

 

[BuToNz]

5% is huge amount.

 

[humbug]

Sounded like a great thing until I read this bit. Five percent could be less than any potential profit margin, or at least eat up a big chunk of it, if you were thinking of trying to make a commercial product with it.

Still good for novices who want to learn programming, game design, etc, though.

Its one reason i prefer Cryengine, $10 a Month for the EaaS subscription and with that you have a licence to sell your games.

The only thing they ask is that you first submit it to them for approval.

But there is a catch, the sound engine is by Wwise, its free with the Engine unless you use it for commercial use, IE sell your work, then its a $750 one time payment for the licence and the engine cannot be separated from Cryengine.

I wish they hadn't done that, not just because of the licensing issue but the FMOD Engine pre 3.5 was much nicer and much less of a chew on.

There are signs tho that they themselves regret using Wwise, a lot of complaints about the sound engine its self and general voicing of a profound dislike of it, they promised to address a lot of those complaints with 3.7, i hope it involves ripping that sound engine out.