Thursday 10 January 2013

Game Engine Feature List

In an earlier post I promised to post the feature lists of UDK, CryEngine and Unity 4 ... wellllll...... I wish I hadn't! I copied all the features of UDK 3 into a document and they take up 15 pages!!! 15 pages!! Seriously! Wow! I'm also thinking that posting the feature list here would break some kind of ownership law, so a link is here:

http://www.unrealengine.com/en/features/

The features are split down into 17 sections that include:

Artificial Intelligence
Terrain
Editor
etc, etc

As for CryEngine 3, there is a great list of features on Wikipedia here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryEngine#CryEngine_3_2

The features for Unity 4 are a bit harder to compile as you have to look at the features for Unity 3, then add the new features of Unity 4 on top.

So here are the Unity 3 features:

http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/unity-3

And here are the Unity 4 features:

http://unity3d.com/unity/4/
The Unity 4 website didn't launch fully for me on IE9, Chrome or Firefox so hopefully they'll fix that soon.

*** Edit ***
One big difference to note between the 3 engines is that CryEngine runs in DirectX 11 mode (at least it did on my install) by default, whereas Unity and Unreal start with DirectX 9 as the default but you can change this to DirectX 11.

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