Showcase: Street Fighter II Bathhouse Redux

Polycount, a leading community portal for video game artists, hosts a 3D art competition called BRAWL. In the latest contest, artists were charged with bringing to life classic fighting game characters and scenes using today’s high-end graphics tools and technology.

Epic Games Senior Technical Artist Jordan Walker tapped into the muscle of Unreal Engine 3's DirectX 11 feature set to produce a palpable interpretation of E. Honda's bathhouse from Capcom's Street Fighter II. This re-imagined environment took home first place in the 'Stage' category.

September 2011 UDK Beta Upgrade Notes

Mac OS Support for UDK Games

• UDK games can now run on Mac OS
  • Every UDK game's potential user base has increased dramatically yet again
  • September 2011 UDK contains a preview of our Mac OS support

Foliage Instance Selection and Editing

• Two new tools, individual instance selection and paint selection, have been added to the foliage edit mode
• Selected instances can be moved, rotated and scaled with the widget, and also snapped to the floor, deleted and cloned with ALT-drag
• Foliage random yaw is now an optional setting to support camera-facing foliage sprites
• Fixed foliage painting behavior with very small brush sizes

Multi-Display Support for iOS

• Works with either HDMI cable or AirPlay

Other Improvements

• Decals now scale correctly when placed
• Added texture import option for inverting green channel
• Slightly increased the size limit of files when importing to 4096x4096x32
• New button can remove all notifies from an anim set
• Added editor comments for AnimNotifies
• UnrealConsole now has text color coding for warnings and errors
• New ambient sound spline actors emit sounds along paths for adding noise to rivers, roadways, etc. with a single actor