How was Unreal Engine 4 made?

anonymous_user_1385a72a · September 15, 2016, 4:10am

So, how was Unreal Engine 4 made? I mean, like, if they used an IDE, text editor, if so, which? I’m just kind of curious.

mahri726 · September 15, 2016, 4:42pm

Probably they used Visual Studio 2013 to build it.

darthviper107 · September 15, 2016, 4:50pm

Blood magic

jwatte · September 15, 2016, 5:06pm

Open Visual Studio
Press “New Project -> Win32 -> C++”
Start typing

They started out with Unreal, the game, in … 1996? It shipped in 1998.
I would guess they used Visual Studio 5 to start with; upgrading to MSDEV98 (Visual Studio 6) when it became available, and then kept up to date more or less since then.
Only some real old timer EPIC insider like @TimSweeneyEpic could answer exactly, though.

DomusLudus · September 15, 2016, 5:10pm

LoL sure it was true but hahahaha

ZacD · September 15, 2016, 7:20pm

I heard it was made entirely in notepad.

AsmundSchei · September 15, 2016, 7:55pm

Tymax · September 15, 2016, 8:48pm

I see what you did there.

Anyway … I’ve heard that UE is most likely a module of a futuristic quantum computed instruction set from the toolkit “real engine” which did sent itself into the past in order to fulfil it’s future goals (enslavement etc.) more efficient.

anonymous_user_8a7303461 · September 15, 2016, 11:05pm

Since you can edit the code, i believe with c++, c# and visual studio.

anonymous_user_128d48a2 · September 16, 2016, 5:43am

It’s a byproduct from the love between two programmers