Unreal Engine 4.8 Released With Nearly 200 Changes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Unreal Engine 4.8 Released With Nearly 200 Changes

Epic Games just announced the release of Unreal Engine 4.8 with "189 great changes" for game developers leveraging this AAA game engine...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Unreal-Engine-4.8

[Tiger_Coder]

Hope there editor improved. Last time I checked it was totally unusable in Linux.

[entropy]

"multi-platform VR support"

Good to see Oculus support on Linux although drivers and SDK will not be updated soon.

[Calinou]

If you want something that is really FLOSS, check out Godot. Its 3D is not as advanced but its 2D engine is excellent.

[elbuglione]

the linux native editor is done:

https://trello.com/c/vjPubFHt/111-linux-native-editor-done-4-8

we have to wait for Linux launcher:

https://trello.com/c/iS3x3Wxw/553-linux-launcher

pls, vote and subscribe.

[Maxjen]

Good to see Oculus support on Linux although drivers and SDK will not be updated soon.

And this means that there will be no support for the consumer version of the Oculus Rift.

[eydee]

Now we only need games using it.

[dragorth]

And this means that there will be no support for the consumer version of the Oculus Rift.

This may be true, but is the fault of Oculus, who have decided not to support Linux or OS X as this time. The linux portion of this seems strange, as Oculus has to support Android, so they already have to support Linux to some extent.

[duby229]

This may be true, but is the fault of Oculus, who have decided not to support Linux or OS X as this time. The linux portion of this seems strange, as Oculus has to support Android, so they already have to support Linux to some extent.

I thought about that too. They probably mean desktop linux. The kernel support should be there, but the userspace support is something else. How do you port something from android to desktop linux? I assume that's the main issue.

EDIT: The problem is when I say desktop linux the first thought is, "Who makes that?" That's the dilemma. That's why I'm a supporter of standardized runtimes. Targeting a distributable version controlled runtime seems like the best possible solution.

EDIT2: Valve has one already. I would love to see other companies with commercial interest release runtimes.

[grenadecx]

Hope there editor improved. Last time I checked it was totally unusable in Linux.

The Linux editor have been working really great since 4.8 preview. Some minor crashes from time to time, but that happens in the windows version as well.