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We’ll walk through the Zen Garden demo Epic created for the new Metal API.
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UE4 Twitch Stream – WWDC recap, Zen Garden & Metal API for iOS 8
Let’s talk about everything happening this week, from the big 4.2 release to Epic’s keynote appearance at WWDC. We’ll go into detail on Zen Garden, the pretty high-end demo using Metal API for iOS 8. There will be discussions, demos, community spotlights and Q&A right here!
Is integrating to Metal level of iOS going to be handled by the engine automatically, where we would possibly only have to change options in build configuration, config files, etc., or will we need to change up the way we approach development for the Metal enabled devices?
Can we leverage the new technology in projects built using only blueprints?
Any way we can get some specifics on real time stats of Zen Garden ( draw calls, frame rate, etc. ) to know what sort of gains we might be looking at? Lots of compromises made in mobile due to performance constraints. I want to know what I can have back by leveraging Metal
Congrats on the Zen Demo. Watched the keynote live and was delighted to see something from Epic!
Questions
Do you think APIs like Metal and Mantle will replace higher level graphics libraries like OpenGL and DirectX over time?
What does Metal mean for the users of engine besides the significant performance increase? Will anything change or is the integration “hidden” in the engine?
Is there any feature that suddenly became viable on mobile that wasn’t before or is it “just” a nice performance boost (still hoping for dynamic shadows sometimes :D)?
What are the technical advances and limitations on the new iOS Metal implementation?
i.e. What are we gaining here besides better graphics? What are all of the features that are essentially unlocked here and what will still be a limitation for iOS games?
Can we enable AdMob on iOS or it will only work on Android?
What about Nvidia K1 support when it will be finished and if it’s using PC shaders?
Any performance optimizations are planned on iOS/Android?
Will you create more AAA sample game and update it like Tappy Chicken? I think that there is a lot of developers who chose UE3 on mobile because of good performance and UE4 shouldn’t be worse.
When Mobile Temple will work with good performance on iOS/Android? I remember that only the first build had good performance.
So basically when you think we will be able to ship AAA game using UE4 on Mobile with stable fps?
Can you make documentation/tutorial on how to package online multiplayer server and client? Currently the documentation is nonexistent. It would be useful if you want to test your game with people who don’t have the editor.
Question for the Stream: Will there there be support for Twitch Streaming and YouTube
Games are moving to “everyone is a content creator” I was wondering if the UE team will take a step into that direction by adding support for the Twitch Streaming SDK and the YouTube Upload and Live Streaming SDK, to enable the gamers to be more than gamers to be content creators?
Now I know this is a bit open ended question, but I think it would be useful to know how well it stacks up against other platforms…
With your insight into Apple ‘v’ <other platforms> what sort of power are we saying that a iPhone/iPad has in regards to a common house-hold desktop PC?. (What spec PC would you say it is!)
[QUESTION FOR STREAM]
Can you publish to multiple platforms with the same project and tag certain things for each target or do you need separate projects? For example the set of maps may be different on a pc build then on the mobile build, the player model may be different on each but the blueprints controlling the gameplay rules would be the same, but the user controls different ect.
Is there a good way to share common game items between builds to different targets such as pc and iOS?
i want to ask about blender… is there is a problems if i make 3D model from blender and put it in UE4 ?!
because in UDK there was some problems… i hope you answer my qustion
[QUESTION FOR STREAM] Character creation is covered somewhat robustly when using Maya, But for those of us that are using Blender ive also been trying to create some useful tutorials and pipelines. BUT their is next to no detailed explanations written or video tutorials to explain setting up the characters within UE4. Editing Rigs, Setting IK/FK, IK/FK through Blueprint, Rig LOD system and the real important one the new FABRIK system. Could we for example import a rig and set the IK/FK controls within editor for use with FABRIK, A quick breakdown on these things including plugging all into Blueprints would be awesome, With VERY detailed documentation ASAP. Cheeeeeeeeeeeers. KB
When can we be looking to see per vertex animation importation for UE4? Alot of cool effects really need those deformed meshes that aren’t really viable to make using bones or morph targets (30 or so morph objects per second of animation is really, really bad). T_T
Similar questions to those that were already asked. What were the devices that were tested during the development of zen garden? What were the optimizations made on the content side during creation? Can you share some of the best practices that were conceived from the development of this project?
