JFK,
Yeah I absolutely agree - I think I said it in my original post:
"You can use it none commercially, and you can learn a lot about the structure of Unreal and Unreal 2 engine."
But it is also quite clear in everything you read on the noted websites, the licenses are there to be seen.
I think the general negativity around this subject just needed clarifying. Unreal is available and tutorials are available, and it is useable (by that I mean not too difficult to understand how to use it).
You can learn a lot about exactly how it works. That is the reason I went looking for it, not to release my own games but to understand more about what you can do with a game engine as powerful as that.
A colleague of mine has the commercial lisence too, and he had offered me work if I could get around to understanding it. Time is just not on my side at the moment though and I cannot afford to learn on the chance of work - the time involved is immense, I'd have to learn for months before I was good enough to work professionally with the engine.
:)
IPete2.
Yeah I absolutely agree - I think I said it in my original post:
"You can use it none commercially, and you can learn a lot about the structure of Unreal and Unreal 2 engine."
But it is also quite clear in everything you read on the noted websites, the licenses are there to be seen.
I think the general negativity around this subject just needed clarifying. Unreal is available and tutorials are available, and it is useable (by that I mean not too difficult to understand how to use it).
You can learn a lot about exactly how it works. That is the reason I went looking for it, not to release my own games but to understand more about what you can do with a game engine as powerful as that.
A colleague of mine has the commercial lisence too, and he had offered me work if I could get around to understanding it. Time is just not on my side at the moment though and I cannot afford to learn on the chance of work - the time involved is immense, I'd have to learn for months before I was good enough to work professionally with the engine.
:)
IPete2.