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Engine Development Credits

Unreal Engine Core System Design

• Tim Sweeney

Engine Development Management

• Daniel Vogel

Engine Technical Director

• Bruce Shankle

Engine Management System

• Steven Polge

UnrealEd

• Warren Marshall
• Demiurge Studios (UDN build on toolsets into UnrealEd)
• MathEngine (Karma SDK integrated into UnrealEd)
• LIPSinc (Automated Facial Automation Technology integrated into UnrealEd)
• OC3 Entertainment (Impersonater toolsets integrated into UnrealEd)
• Interactive Data Visualization (SpeedTreeRT integrated into UnrealEd)

Rendering Engine

• Erik De Neve (Main, scene graph, animation system)
• Daniel Vogel (Renderer devices, rendering pipeline)
• Andrew Scheidecker (Special effects, optimizing renderer)
• Sam Zamani (Shader pipeline, optimizing renderer)
• Demiurge Studios (UDN build on many rendering technologies)
• LIPSinc's Automated Facial Automation Technology (Real-time lipsync middleware, no additional cost)
• PixoMatic Software Renderer (High-speed performance software renderer middleware, no additional cost)
• OC3 Entertainment's Impersonater (Real-time lipsync and facial anmation middleware, no additional cost)
• Interactive Data Visualization's SpeedTreeRT (Real-time tree and vegetation middleware, no additional cost)

Physics Engine

• James Golding (Base physics)
  • With MathEngine's Karma Physics Engine (Middleware, no additional cost)

Network Engine

• Steven Polge (Unreal Network)

Sound Engine

• Creative Labs's OpenAL Audio System (Freeware)
• Ogg Vorbis (Freeware)

A.I. System

• Steven Polge (Unreal A.I.)

Console Porting

• Steven Polge
  • Build 633~2227 for Xbox
  • Build 633 for PlayStation 2
• Secret Level
  • Build 777, 829, 927 for PlayStation 2
  • Build 829, 927 for GameCube
  • UT2003 build 928 for Xbox version of America's Army Rise of a Soldier
  • UT2003 build 928 for PS2 version of America's Army Rise of a Soldier (cancelled)
  • UT2003 build 2199 for PS2 Unreal Title. Unreal Assault (cancelled)
• Sam Zamani
  • Build 2226 for highly enhanced and exclusive on Xbox. (Unreal Engine 2X)

Build Versions

• Unreal Warfare Build 633~927
  • Build 633: First version of UE2 Licensee point (Windows) [Jan 2001]
    • Build 633 for PS2 port (PlayStation 2) [Jan 2001]
  • Build 697: Leaked Unreal 2 E3 2001 demo, with some modified Legend Entertainment's code (Windows) [Mar 2001]
  • Build 739: OFFICIAL CODEDROP for Public Release to Licensee (Windows, Xbox) [Jul 2001]
    • Build 763 (94.14) : Leaked Unreal Championship leaked PC build beta "UTX-Build" included added DE's particle system (Windows) [Oct 2001]
  • Build 777: OFFICIAL CODEDROP for Public Release to Licensee (Windows, Xbox) [Dec 2001]
    • Build 777 PS2 port by Secret Level (PlayStation 2) [Dec 2001]
  • Build 829: OFFICIAL CODEDROP for Public Release to Licensee (Windows, Xbox) [Jan 2002]
    • Build 829 for PS2 port by Secret Level (PlayStation 2) [Jan 2002]
    • Build 829 for GC port by Secret Level (GameCube) [Jan 2002]]
    • Build 829 Karma/Unreal Integration Patch1 [Mar 2002]
    • Build 829: with merged from some after 927 code and some UT2003 code for Unreal 2 out of box (Windows) [Feb 2003]
      • Build 1000: Unreal 2 Demo version [Feb 2003]
      • Build 2001: v1403 Patch of Unreal 2 (Windows), out of box (Xbox) [Dec 2003]
  • Build 848: Unreal Performance Test 2002 version for Unreal Warfare (Windows) [Jan 2002]
  • Build 856: Unreal Performance Test 2002 version for Unreal Warfare (Windows) [Feb 2002]
  • Build 918: Unreal Performance Test 2002 version for Unreal Warfare (Windows) [Apr 2002]
  • Build 926: PREVIEW DROP for Public Release to Licensee (Windows, Xbox) [May 2002]
  • Build 927: OFFICIAL CODEDROP for Public Release to Licensee (Windows, Xbox) [May 2002]
    • Build 927 for PS2 port by Secret Level (PlayStation 2) [May 2002]
    • Build 927 for GC port by Secret Level (GameCube) [May 2002]
  • Build 1003: PREVIEW DROP for Public Release to Licensee [May 2002]
• Unreal Tournament 2003 Build 927~2225
  • Build 927 (117.25): Unreal Tournament 2003 E3 2002 demo build 906, but Unreal Engine version is 927 (Windows) [Apr 2002]
  • Build 927 (119.25): Unreal Tournament 2003 beta demo (Windows) [May 2002]
    • Build 928 (119.25):Unreal Championship out of box (Xbox) [Sep 2002]
  • Build 1077 (120.28): Unreal Tournament 2003 first official demo (Windows, Linux) [Sep 2002]
  • Build 1080 (120.28): Unreal Tournament 2003 first official demo patch (Windows, Linux) [Sep 2002]
  • Build 1142 (121.29): Unreal Tournament 2003 second offcial demo (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) [Nov 2002] (UE version is 1142. but after of 2136)
  • Build 2107 (120.28): Unreal Tournament 2003 out of box (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) [Sep 2002]
  • Build 2111 (121.29): Unreal Tournament 2003 beta patch (Windows) [Oct 2002]
  • Build 2126 (121.29): Unreal Tournament 2003 beta patch (Windows) [Oct 2002]
  • Build 2136 (121.29): Unreal Tournament 2003 retail patch 1 (Windows) [Oct 2002]
  • Build 2153 (121.29): Unreal Tournament 2003 beta patch (Windows) [Dec 2002]
  • Build 2154 (121.29): Unreal Tournament 2003 beta patch (Windows) [Dec 2002]
  • Build 2164 (121.29): Unreal Tournament 2003 beta patch (Windows) [Dec 2002]
  • Build 2166 (121.29): Unreal Tournament 2003 beta and retail patch 2 (Windows) [Dec 2002]
  • Build 2186 (121.29): Unreal Tournament 2003 retail patch 3 (Windows, Linux) [Jan 2003]
  • Build 2199 (121.29): Unreal Tournament 2003 retail patch 4 (Windows, Linux) [Feb 2003]
  • Build 2206 (121.29): Unreal Tournament 2003 third official demo (Windows, Linux) [Feb 2003]
  • Build 2225 (121.29): Unreal Tournament 2003 retail patch 5 (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) [Apr 2003]
• Pure Unreal Engine 2 Builds 2110~2227
  • Build 2110: OFFICIAL CODEDROP for Release to Licensee. based on Unreal Warfare engine at merged from some UT2003 2107 code and removed UT2003 game specific codes (Windows, Xbox) [Oct 2002]
  • Build 2226: OFFICIAL CODEDROP for Release to Licensee. merged from some UT2003 2225 code (Windows, Xbox) [May 2003]
    • Unreal Engine 2 Runtime Edition (Windows) [Sep 2003]
      • Build 2226: UE2Runtime 2226.19.03 [Oct 2003]
        • Build 2226: UE2Runtime 2226.19.03 SpeedTree Demo [Apr 2004]
      • Build 2226: UE2Runtime 2226.20.01 [Jul 2004]
      • Build 2226: UE2Runtime 2226.20.02 [Feb 2005]
    • Unreal 2 eXpanded MultiPlayer free-download (Windows) [Dec 2003], included in Unreal 2 retail box (Xbox) [Feb 2004]
  • Build 2227: OFFICIAL CODEDROP for Release to Licensee. all bugs fixed from 2226 (Windows, Xbox) [Mar 2004]
  • Unreal Engine 2X: Unreal Championship 2 Exclusive on Xbox optimized and some enhancedments [Mar 2004]
• Unreal Engine 2.5 Build 3120~3369
  • Build 3120 (127.29): Unreal Tournament 2004 beta demo (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) [Feb 2004]
  • Build 3186 (127.29): Unreal Tournament 2004 out of box (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) [Mar 2004]
  • Build 3197 (127.29): Unreal Tournament 2004 beta patch (Windows) [Apr 2004]
  • Build 3204 (127.29): Unreal Tournament 2004 retail patch 1 (Windows, Linux, 64-bit Linux, Mac OS X) [May 2004]
  • Build 3236 (127.29): Unreal Tournament 2004 retail patch 2 (Windows, Linux, 64-bit Linux, Mac OS X) [Jun 2004]
  • Build 3270 (127.29): Unreal Tournament 2004 retail patch 3 (Windows, Linux, 64-bit Linux) [Aug 2004]
  • Build 3323 (128.29): Unreal Tournament 2004 beta and retail patch 4 (Windows, Linux, 64-bit Linux) [Sep 2004]
  • Build 3334 (128.29): Unreal Tournament 2004 official demo (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) [Sep 2004]
  • Build 3339 (128.29): Unreal Tournament 2004 retail patch 5 (Windows, Linux, 64-bit Linux) [Nov 2004]
  • Build 3355 (128.29): Unreal Tournament 2004 retail patch 6 (Windows, 64-bit Windows, Linux, 64-bit Linux) [Feb 2005]
  • Build 3362 (128.29): Unreal Tournament 2004 beta patch (Windows) [Oct 2005]
  • Build 3369 (128.29): Unreal Tournament 2004 retail patch 7 (Windows, 64-bit Windows, Linux, 64-bit Linux, Mac OS X) [Dec 2005]

Engine Details

Rendering Technologies

• Direct3D 8, Direct3D 9 (Builds 3236+) and OpenGL, OpenGL 2 (Builds 3236+) support
• Hardware shader support for vertex shaders and pixel shaders
• Enhanced lighting
  • Real-time radiosity lightmaps
• Enhanced NURBS, scene graph, collision detection, and spatial data handling support
• Enhanced BSP/CSG and Portal world rendering technology and Scene graph and all Scene Management (Builds 2500+)
• Improvements very fast rendering engine speed (Builds 2500+)
• Improved texture compression
• Cube mapping (Builds 739+)
  • All texture mapping with cube mapping including environment mapping
• Dot-3 product bump mapping
  • With environment mapping (environment bump mapping) and with cube mapping too
• Advanced Weighted ClipTexturing
  • With all other texturing techniques
• Weighted skeletal animation (Builds 829+)
  • With smooth-skinned geometry (skinning animation)
• Facial animation support (Builds 829+)
  • Including scripted lip syncing and real-time lip syncing
• Large scale terrain support (Builds 633+)
• Seamless mixing of indoor BSP meshes, static meshes, dynamic meshes and terrain meshes
• Hardware Brush with static meshes, movable meshes, non-deformable meshes
• Emitter based particles system (Builds 739+)
• Heavily extensive emitter particles system (Builds 3270+)
• 2048x2048 size texture support (Builds 633+)
• 4096x4096 size texture support (Builds 2500+)
• Software rendering with Pixomatic software renderer (Builds 3186+, no additional cost)
• Interactive Data Visualization's SpeedTreeRT (Builds 3369+)
• Unreal Developer Network support on many other rendering technologies by Demiurge Studios

Other Features

• New designed network engine (Builds 739+)
• Powerful material shader and texture editor for UnrealEd (Builds 829+)
• Fast vehicles and physics optimized based network engine (Builds 3186+)
• Particles system wizard toolset for UnrealEd (Builds 739+)
• Included entirely new particle system editor for UnrealEd (Builds 3270+)
• UnrealMatinee cutscene toolset for UnrealEd (Builds 739+)
• Powerful real-time terrain editing toolset for UnrealEd (Builds 633+)
• Improving GUI editor (Builds 927+)
• Voice-over IP support (Builds 3186+)
• Text-to-speech support (Builds 3186+)
• AI speech recognition (Builds 3186+)
• Improved dymanic music system support (Builds 829+)
• New designed A.I. system (Builds 633+)
• Newly improving A.I. system, BOT A.I. and teamwork A.I. (Builds 3186+)
• 16-bit unicode support (Builds 2110+)
• Include MathEngine's "Karma" physics engine (Builds 829+, no additional cost)
• Enhancing "Karma" physics engine performance and extending supported vehicles physics (Builds 3186+)
• Vehicles optimized physics (Builds 3186+)
• Support for Lipsync system of LIPSinc's Automated Facial Automation Technology (Builds 829+, no additional cost)
• OC3 Entertainment's Impersonater (Builds 3323+, no additional cost)
• 3DS MAX, MAYA, SoftImage's XSI Mod Tool (Builds 3355+) Plug-ins
• Enhancing Real-time recording of in-engine footage as replayable 'demo' files (Builds 829+)
• Support for processing those demo files into DivX movies (DivX library license separately)
• Support for processing those demo files into Bink Video
• Unreal Developer Network support on many other toolsets, utilities and sample contents by Demiurge Studios

Development Tools

• UnrealEd 3
• Ucc
• UccDepend
• UDebugger
• UPaint
• Karma Authoring Tool (Builds 829+, no additional cost)
• LIPSinc Animation Studio (Builds 829+, no additional cost)
• Impersonator Studio (Builds 3323+, no additional cost)

Projects

MMOG Projects

MOG Projects

Released Projects

Unreal Engine 2 using released projects on more than 300 over titles, included all of the unknowned PC, Xbox, PS2, GameCube titles

Splinter Cell engine history

• Splinter Cell 1
  • Ubisoft Montreal: Splinter Cell based on enhanced version of the Unreal Engine 2 build 829 without karma physics engine.
• Rainbow Six 3 (console versions)
  • Ubisoft Montreal: Rainbow Six 3 based on Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (PC version)'s Unreal Engine 2 build 927 with some Splinter Cell 1's engine features.
• Splinter Cell 2
  • Ubisoft Shanghai: Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow Select mode uses XIII based Unreal Engine 2 build 829.
  • Ubisoft Shanghai: Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow singleplayer version based on some enhanced Splinter Cell 1 engine and some code steal from Unreal Engine 2 build 2110 with renderware physics engine.
  • Ubisoft Annecy: Splinter Cell Shadow Strike based on Unreal Engine 2 build 2110 without karma physics engine. later changed Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow multiplayer modes. this engine called "Shadow Strike engine"
• Splinter Cell 3
  • Ubisoft Montreal: Splinter Cell Chaos Theory singleplayer/co-op mode based on enhanced version of Splinter Cell 1 engine and some code steal from Unreal Engine 2.5 build 3339 with havok physics 2 engine. this version called "SCX engine".
  • Ubisoft Annecy: Splinter Cell Chaos Theory versus mode based on Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow multiplayer modes engine and some code steal from Unreal Engine 2 build 2226. without karma physics engine. this engine called still "Shadow Strike engine"
• Splinter Cell Essentials
  • Ubisoft Montreal: Splinter Cell Essentials based on "PS2 version of Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow singleplayer mode engine" and optimized for PSP.
• Splinter Cell 4
  • Ubisoft Shanghai: Splinter Cell Double Agent offline mode for next-gen version (PC/Xbox 360/PS3) based on "enhaced version of SCX engine"(enhancing for multithreaded) and some code steal from Unreal Engine 2.5 build 3369 with havok physics 2 engine.
  • Ubisoft Montreal: Splinter Cell Double Agent offline mode for current-gen version(Xbox/PS2/GameCube/Wii) based on "standard SCX engine" and some code steal from Unreal Engine 2.5 build 3369 with havok physics 2 engine.
  • Ubisoft Annecy: Splinter Cell Double Agent online mode for next-gen version (PC/Xbox 360/PS3) based on enhacned version of Splinter Cell Chaos Theory versus mode engine with PhysX physics engine. this engine called still "Shadow Strike engine"
  • Ubisoft Annecy: Splinter Cell Double Agent online mode for current-gen version (Xbox/PS2) based on standard version of Splinter Cell Chaos Theory versus mode engine with PhysX physics engine. this engine called still "Shadow Strike engine"
• Splinter Cell 5
  • Ubisoft Montreal: Splinter Cell Conviction based on enhanced version of "standard SCX engine"(NOT based on Shanghai team's next-gen version of double agent engine). based on montreal team's double agent offline mode for current-gen version engine and some improved engine with havok physics 3 engine. this version called "LEAD engine".
• Splinter Cell 3D
  • Ubisoft Montreal: Splinter Cell 3DS based on "GameCube version of Splinter Cell Chaos Theory engine" converted to Nitendo 3DS.
• I Am Alive
  • Ubisoft Shanghai: I Am Alive based on Splinter Cell Conviction's "LEAD engine".
• Splinter Cell 6
  • Ubisoft Toronto: Splinter Cell Blacklist based on Splinter Cell Conviction engine(NOT codebase from I Am Alive) and some "enhanced version of LEAD engine".

Non-gaming Projects

Unreal Engine 2 Runtime Custom License is used in many non-gaming projects including construction simulations and designs, training simulations, driving simulations, educations, virtual reality shopping malls, movie storyboards, continuities, pre-visuals and etc

As of March 2008, more than 600 companies had a Unreal Engine 2 Runtime Licenses.

A Cases by

Licensees for Educations

• The Art Institute of Pittsburgh
• ETC

Construction Simulations and Interior Designs

• Bentheim interior design
• ETC

Related Topics

• UnrealEngine2 Runtime
• Unreal Engine
• UnrealEd 3
• Ucc
• UPaint
• UDebugger
• Powered by Unreal Technology - The offical page for the Unreal Engine.
• Epic's list of Announced and Released projects using the Unreal Engine.
• Unreal Development Network – The official support site for Unreal Engine real-time technology.