Anyone heard about this? the Unreal Development Kit was released free to the public for non-commercial use a few months ago. after i heard that, i downloaded the udk and started learning to use it. it comes with a simple editor that is used for map design and functionality, but once u get into the programming aspect, the unrealscript, it becomes very difficult, especially with how hard it is to find decent tutorials or books.
source code for unreal tournament 3 demo is supplied with the game, kinda to show u examples of coding in unrealscript, but there is no decent api or library to show u the commands or actions that you're able to use.
still, i found it to be a great way for programmers who like to create games to get hands-on experience about what it's like to create a 3d, high-end-graphics game. it's worth checking out at udk.com if u havent heard about it. im interested to hear of any people who have used it or heard of it here.
i also recently heard that cryengine 3 (used in crysis 2) is going to also be released free for non-commercial use, which got me pretty excited, being a crysis fan myself
the only down-side is learning all these new languages with their weird commands, and some of them arent even supplied with any decent editors to speed up testing and compiling.
? so programmers can look up how to do a certain function in their game?
or dont have much time and patience to spend browsing through every single file in the source code that comes with it 
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