Unreal Engine 4 preview on WIRED

First glimpse of UDK / Unreal Engine 4 capabilities and interesting read with some nice info from Sweeney himself here.

Official announcement set for E3 in June.

UDK hotkey list

From the polycount forums : Here

photoshop, maya, max, etc hotkey links located in this thread

Unreal fun Minecraft style!

Found this video importing the 'creeper' mesh from minecraft to UDK for some physics fun, compliments of Kootra.

see the video here.

March 2012 UDK release; New work from Tor Frick

A new release to download! and an excellent Interview with environment artist Tor Frick

Frick uses a single 256x512 texture to map his entire scene, and even has the full thing available for download here.

Ctrl+Paint digital painting tutorials

As recently featured on Polycount, Ctrl+Paint has amassed quite a collection of Excellent digital painting tutorials - many of which are available for the great price of $0.

For anyone trying to break into the digital painting industry, or learn more advanced techniques, these videos are invaluable.

Unreal Engine 4

Epic to preview the Unreal Engine 4 at GDC this week. Wonder how long it'll take for a leak !

Crysis-style wind vertex shader in UDK

Came across this great tutorial last night breaking down the inner workings of an animated vertex shader, in this case simulating wind for foliage. Thanks to 'minifloppy' for this one (niice portfolio site too!).

Youtube video of the shader in action here. Can't wait to dissect this one for myself.