UDK beta de agosto

Como nos tiene bien acostrumbrados Epic Games acaba de publicar la versión beta de kit gratuito de desarrollo UDK , de Agosto, las principales novedades de esa nueva beta son las siguientes:

Scaleform pipeline improvements
Improved motion blur
New detail lighting view mode
Recompile materials directly from Content Browser right-click menu
New character indirect lighting controls
Better hair lighting

Scaleform GFx

• Scaleform GFx 3.3.85 is now merged in and all UDK UI is GFx-based.
• Made many improvements and fixes to the Scaleform import pipeline.

Point Light Shadows

• Whole scene shadows for point lights are now supported.

Precomputed Visibility

• Precomputed visibility allows occlusion on platforms that don't support hardware occlusion queries.

Motion Blur

• The quality of Motion Blur has been significantly improved without a performance loss.

New Detail Lighting View Mode

• Replaces diffuse and specular color but keeps all other material parameters like normal map, opacity mask, two sidedness, etc.
• Useful for viewing lighting without material diffuse color influence.
• Lighting-only view mode is still useful for looking at lightmap artifacts and compression.

Character Indirect Lighting

• Added new controls for fine-tuning runtime indirect lighting settings on characters.
• Added distinct controls for both lit and shadowed environments.

Hair Lighting

• Implemented a new, single-pass technique for translucency lighting.
• Previous technique relied on multiple passes, which over-brightens on multilayered objects, such as hair.
• The single-pass technique uses about half the number of shader instructions as multipass lighting, so hair will be much cheaper.

Normal Maps, Indirect Lighting & Lightmaps

• Normal maps are now taken into account for indirect lighting with simple lightmaps.

Other New Stuff

• Can now recompile materials directly from the right-click menu in Content Browser.
• New texture streaming system saves memory and prioritizes textures more effectively.
• Added limited support for importing non-power-of-two (NPOT) textures into the editor. MIP maps are not allowed, and image dimensions must be divisible by four for DXT compression.
• Vertex normals are now correctly saved with static meshes exported as OBJ files.
• Terrain export now supports holes.
• New ContentComparison commandlet helps optimize content.
• Lightmass static shadows now have texture space filtering on by default, which smoothes out aliasing.
• Material editor Undo and Redo are now much faster.
• Added multiple camera offset support for particle modules and camera offset support for mesh emitters.
• Spawn at bone/socket now allows rotating mesh particles to the orientation of the bone/socket.