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Unreal Engine 4 license costs (w/ source code): $19 monthly sub, 5% royalty rate
- Thread starter Nirolak
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UnrealEngine
Epic Games
I want to clarify this:
The UDK page was only moved, and we're taking a look at that redirect right now.
https://unrealengine.com/products/udk is the new page, which still has all UDK information, and the most recent download available.
There is some key information in https://unrealengine.com/faq about UDK, but the quick gist is, "The availability of UE4 doesn't affect your access to UDK.
We encourage all new projects to use Unreal Engine 4. If you're early in development and think you can port over, you should look into it.
If you are well into development or close to shipping your game, we encourage you to keep moving forward as planned and ship with UDK."
And also, Hi everybody! I'm here to answer any questions you may have on this awesome morning!
tringworldso
Member
Oh, I see. Thanks for clearing that up!
SlipperySlope
Banned
Hello. I had no idea you had an account here. So what's your personal favorite aspect of UE4?
Hi! I have a few questions
Like I said previously, will there be a free version of UDK based on UE4 out there for people to use, similar to how it is now?
About the Marketplace: for those who would like to just create assets to put in the marketplace, do they have to pay the $19 a month? Is the royalty percentage different at all for marketplace purchases?
How different is the general UI and feel of the editor compared to previous versions of UDK? Is it brand new or similar enough that learning the new stuff won't take long?
Any chance for a trial month like thing in the future?
blitzcloud
Banned
just think of it as an investor that wants his piece. They "fund" your copy of the engine by not demanding more, and a 5% of something can be just... 5$, 50$, 500$, 5000$.... 50k!$... but to make 50k dollars themselves, your game would have done sales for a value of $1 million.
Hello Unreal Engine. Can I license you for $19 a month, create a VR (Oculus Rift) demo for some technology we develop at my university, and demonstrate it publicly (for free, obviously) with no further charge?
UnrealEngine
Epic Games
Frankly? Personally, I'm just thrilled about seeing the final products that indies and students make. I've been really fortunate to present UDK in the past at places like Casual Connect and several small indie and student game summits, and the work that people have done in the past has just been phenomenal. I'm also the person who gets to highlight some of those teams on our Social Networks and Website on occasion, so I take their work very seriously.
Knowing that those same talented folks will now be able to make even MORE amazing work?...That they'll be empowered to push themselves even further? That's my favorite thing. #nohype
UnrealEngine
Epic Games
Hello Durante - This post for Students and Universities may help:
https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-4-for-schools-faculty-and-students
The long story short is that any student can personally subscribe for $19/mo, install the software on your own computer(s), and use it for any combination of educational purposes for free.
i love you btw
1. How is the performance of Slate UI? UI Engines that work in that way, build from script per frame, are usually quite slow. Also, can Slate work with custom shaders?
2. My company does B2B applications, currently in Unity. We don't sell our products for a list price to X number of customers. Instead we have a fixed price per project. How will that work with your revenue percentage model? For a 100 000 dollar project we would owe you 5% of that?
Thank you!
Wait, if I'm reading that right my department can get a single subscription and use it on all PCs owned by our department, including labs?
If so, that is amazing.
UnrealEngine
Epic Games
Nirolak is 100% correct.
Our FAQ will always have the most up to the minute information here: https://unrealengine.com/faq, but the quick answer is that if you require different terms than our standard agreement meets, you can obtain UE4 the "traditional" way which is through a tailored agreement.
We have a custom licensing page here: https://unrealengine.com/custom-licensing that also has a bit more information on this.
Hey guys
I've worked with UDK for a lot of time, it was great but then had to switch to Unity because I couldn't release for for Android with UDK - unless paying thousand(?) of dollars.
Still, $99 was way less than the Pro version of Unity, and the revenue % was well-set for indie teams. It may have had some limitations but it was good.
Now you're basically taking the opposite approach. You're telling me that I have to pay even to take a look at the engine, and that I can't release a game without having royalties immediately. I mean, it would be OK if at least I didn't have to pay for the engine every month, too.
I hope, at very least, that Android won't require another license this time like the consoles, because that would be suicidal.
Just my 2 cents. Of course, I welcome the thing about the source code, and I understand that you're not exactly targeting small teams with this, but it still makes me a bit sad.
My bad, I read "development" instead of deployment for some reason. I know that you need a mac to compile
NumberThree
Member
From the FAQ:
Does this mean I could pay for one month of subscription and play around with the source code/tools for as long as I want if I'm not releasing anything to the public?
Vita license isn't included unless something changed recently. Wii U and Xbox One both grant "free" Unity Pro licenses with the U SDK or ID@Xbox program, but everything else (PS3, PS4, Vita, 360) requires a separate license on top of Unity Pro that's said to run about $40k per platform.
UnrealEngine
Epic Games
Wanted to post a few other FAQs for you guys, just for clarity sake:
What are Unreal Engine 4's system requirements? (PC or Mac)
You will need a powerful setup to get started developing with UE4 right now.
Here's what we recommend:
Desktop PC or Mac
Windows 7 64-bit or Mac OS X 10.9.2 or later
Quad-core Intel or AMD processor, 2.5 GHz or faster
NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card or higher
8 GB RAM
Do I have to worry about a billing contract or penalties for cancelling my subscription?
Your subscription payment automatically recurs, but youre free to cancel at any time. Theres no penalty for cancellation.
When you cancel your subscription, you wont receive access to future releases of Unreal Engine 4, however your login will remain active, and you are free to continue using the versions of Unreal Engine 4 which you obtained as a subscriber under the terms of the EULA.
I'm currently using UDK. What's your advice for me?
The availability of UE4 doesn't affect your access to UDK.
We encourage all new projects to use Unreal Engine 4. If you're early in development and think you can port over, you should look into it.
If you are well into development or close to shipping your game, we encourage you to keep moving forward as planned and ship with UDK. If you find that you are close to shipping and you're running into an issue requiring help, contact us at udk-licensing@epicgames.com. After you ship, start your next project with UE4.
Check out the thread about this on the UDK forums, and if you're on the mailing list, take a look at your email!
I am close to shipping or have shipped projects using UDK. What does this mean for me?
Your terms haven't changed, however we're giving you the option to choose your royalty terms. Pick whichever is more favorable to you and apply either the new UE4 royalty model (5% of gross revenue) or your existing UDK terms (25% of net revenue after you take home $50,000) to all UDK product revenue from January 1, 2014 onward.
Again, check the UDK forums as we're posting info there as well.
Email us at udk-licensing@epicgames.com if you have any questions.
There are more items on the FAQ here: https://www.unrealengine.com/faq but if you have anything that is not reflected, definitely post it and we'll work to update it as fast as we can.
What are Unreal Engine 4's system requirements? (PC or Mac)
You will need a powerful setup to get started developing with UE4 right now.
Here's what we recommend:
Desktop PC or Mac
Windows 7 64-bit or Mac OS X 10.9.2 or later
Quad-core Intel or AMD processor, 2.5 GHz or faster
NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card or higher
8 GB RAM
Do I have to worry about a billing contract or penalties for cancelling my subscription?
Your subscription payment automatically recurs, but youre free to cancel at any time. Theres no penalty for cancellation.
When you cancel your subscription, you wont receive access to future releases of Unreal Engine 4, however your login will remain active, and you are free to continue using the versions of Unreal Engine 4 which you obtained as a subscriber under the terms of the EULA.
I'm currently using UDK. What's your advice for me?
The availability of UE4 doesn't affect your access to UDK.
We encourage all new projects to use Unreal Engine 4. If you're early in development and think you can port over, you should look into it.
If you are well into development or close to shipping your game, we encourage you to keep moving forward as planned and ship with UDK. If you find that you are close to shipping and you're running into an issue requiring help, contact us at udk-licensing@epicgames.com. After you ship, start your next project with UE4.
Check out the thread about this on the UDK forums, and if you're on the mailing list, take a look at your email!
I am close to shipping or have shipped projects using UDK. What does this mean for me?
Your terms haven't changed, however we're giving you the option to choose your royalty terms. Pick whichever is more favorable to you and apply either the new UE4 royalty model (5% of gross revenue) or your existing UDK terms (25% of net revenue after you take home $50,000) to all UDK product revenue from January 1, 2014 onward.
Again, check the UDK forums as we're posting info there as well.
Email us at udk-licensing@epicgames.com if you have any questions.
There are more items on the FAQ here: https://www.unrealengine.com/faq but if you have anything that is not reflected, definitely post it and we'll work to update it as fast as we can.
UnrealEngine
Epic Games
For #1 - Unfortunately I'm not well-equipped to answer that one, but I'll work on trying to get an answer for you.
For #2 - At this point, I'd recommend that you reach out for custom licensing help here: https://www.unrealengine.com/custom-licensing.
UnrealEngine
Epic Games
3GB remaining.
got not only retweeted by the Unreal Engine twitter, but also by a developer and ended up being retweeted by Mark Rein himself
We are all very excited!
Poetic.Injustice
Member
Mark Rein: "Hahaha...No."
Didn't Wii-U have something going on with HTML5?
Flappy Bird on the Wii U browser running on Unreal Engine 4
UnrealEngine
Epic Games
Unreal Engine 4 subscription enables you to deploy to Windows PC, Mac, iOS and Android. This is all available through the engine and tools download from the website.
If you access the source code, you'll see that there is early work on other platforms, including Oculus VR, HTML5 and Linux. You are welcome to extend and modify this code, and also build and ship games for these platforms.
Therefore, if you have programming resources you can use UE4 to ship games for Oculus, web browsers, Steambox and anywhere else UE4 might take you in the future.
MaritalWheat
Member
Releasing the engine source is super cool, it's great to see companies opening up their toolsets like this. I'll probably buy a subscription just to poke around the guts and learn some things.
IrgendwasmitRot
Member
Haha,yup!
UnrealEngine
Epic Games
That is something you can definitely check out today (and along the way): https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/ is live and public.
Metroid-Squadron
Banned
So, DX9 support is gone?
Edwards_Omatic
Member
Anyone know what the deal is with lightmass in UE4, is it the same as UE3? Baked lighting and having to create lightmaps for assets etc?
Or is it more dynamic, like Cryengine?
If it's the former UE4 can sod off, i'll stick with CryEngine thanks.
Or is it more dynamic, like Cryengine?
If it's the former UE4 can sod off, i'll stick with CryEngine thanks.
Future PhaZe
Member
Yesssssa
Nope and also no official support for Vita, PS3 or 360. Unity has an advantage there.
Their videos page seems like a cluttered mess; It doesn't even look like the videos go in order.
Yeah that is unfortunate. Hopefully they work on getting them into playlists soon. (Unless they already are.)
edit: Just looked and yes they are in playlists.
Playlists
Cool. I'm interested in seeing what indies will do with it. On a somewhat related note, I wish certain developers, like Capcom, for example, would offer versions of their in-house engines. Having Capcom offer licences of the MT Framework 2.0 engine out, both to JP devs and internationally, instead of only offering licences to their partners would be amazing.
Just_myles
Member
Well Unity is kind of on the free side right now. I don't mind giving up a few life things that I have to purchase a UE4 license but, I am just barely scratching Unity. So maybe a few years down the road I will revisit this.
Thread Subscribed.
Thread Subscribed.
UnrealEngine
Epic Games
Hi moneal - yes, definitely! If you cancel your subscription after one month, your login will still remain active and you'll be able to use the version of UE4 you got while you were a subscriber. That said, you won't get any future updates without resubscribing.
For any user who is not selling a product, you don't owe a royalty. Here is the full list of royalty free applications for reference:
No royalties are due on the following:
Ancillary products, including t-shirts, CDs, plushies, action figures and books. The exception is items with embedded data or information, such as QR codes, that affect the operation of the product.
Consulting and work-for-hire services using the engine. This applies to architects using the engine to create visualizations as well as consultants receiving a development fee.
Linear media, including movies, animated films and cartoons distributed as video.
Cabinet-based arcade games and amusement park rides.
Truly free games and apps (with no associated revenue).
arhra
Member
I'm pretty sure that royalty-based pricing with Hollywood would work out worse than standard work-for-hire contracting.
UnrealEngine
Epic Games
Unfortunately, the primary youtube videos page sorts to most recent. That siad, w'eve created a few playlists targeted to specific user groups here: https://www.youtube.com/user/UnrealDevelopmentKit/playlists
That may help a bit more, as I know there is a lot of new information to digest.
How much coding knowledge is required for things like cryengine, unity, UE4? Are the development kits largely self contained enough where you can get a lot done primarily just through the editor? My only real experience is learning how to use the terrain editor in cryengine 3, and some early level programming courses.