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Unreal Engine 3 Running In Flash

Posted by Soulskill on from the putting-a-v-8-in-a-yugo dept.

Eraesr writes with news that Epic Games has added Unreal Engine 3 support for Adobe Flash Player. This comes alongside news that Flash Player 11 has been released, an update that added Stage3D, "a set of low-level GPU-accelerated APIs enabling advanced 2D and 3D capabilities across multiple screens and devices." "With its new hardware-accelerated Stage 3D APIs, Flash Player 11 allows 1,000 times faster 2D and 3D graphics rendering performance over Flash Player 10. Developers can now animate millions of objects with smooth 60 frames per second rendering and deliver console-quality games on Mac OS, Windows and connected televisions. 'With UE3 and Flash, games built for high-end consoles can now run on the Web or as Facebook apps, reaching an enormous user base,' said Sweeney. 'This totally changes the playing field for game developers who want to widely deploy and monetize their games.'"

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  1. In other news: by justforgetme · · Score: 2

    Apparently the end of flash is night. I can remember adobe putting the 3D stage object (no pun here) into Shockwave right before they decided to abandon it.

    Evidently adobe themselves subconsciously know that pushing the Flash plugin is pure wrong. :-)

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    1. Re:In other news: by IceNinjaNine · · Score: 2

      nigh not night.... stupid autocomplete!!!

      Dood.. you are so lucky. I was all cranked up in "spelling and/or usage" troll mode and you recovered.
      You were 1 Newton and 25 ms away from flaming death. ;)

    2. Re:In other news: by mulvane · · Score: 2

      "Dood.." Misspelled dude, and the use of two periods ".." is neither a period for ending a sentence properly or an ellipsis "...". Prepare for flaming death!

  2. They need to make a job of it and make it an OS by jamax · · Score: 2

    FlashOS
    it seems it's almost done anyway..

  3. If you're dumb enough to use bitcoins... by Viol8 · · Score: 2

    ... you deserve all you get.

    1. Re:If you're dumb enough to use bitcoins... by mwvdlee · · Score: 2

      Monopoly money?
      Chocolate coins?

      Being able to mint a currency yourself is exactly why it's worthless.

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  4. Re:Oh noes! by SuperDre · · Score: 2

    and how is this different to new WebGL which also allows direct control of the GPU with exactly the same security holes...

  5. Meanwhile, WebGL has... TREES! by icebraining · · Score: 2

    http://oos.moxiecode.com/js_webgl/forest/index.html

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  6. Re:Hardware requirement? by karnal · · Score: 2

    This is slashdot. Do you have to ask?

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  7. Re:Native Client? by slart42 · · Score: 2

    On the technical side, NaCl code is generally more performant then ActionScript, as it does not have to go through high-level language constructs, plus the Stage 3D API does not offer all the functionality of OpenGL ES 2.0 offered in NaCL (more limited shader complexity).

    NaCl is also open source, which makes it a standard I'd much rather like to see on the web then Flash (especially with Adobe needing to find ways to actually monetize this, as third-party game engines will not actually generate sales for Adobe's authoring tools).

    The thing right now is that neither WebGL nor NaCl can beat the current availability of Flash (98% browser penetration on desktops is hard to beat). I'm hoping to see that change, but Adobe is in a strong position right now.

  8. Loading times by airfoobar · · Score: 2

    I don't even want to speculate.

  9. Re:Native Client? by slart42 · · Score: 4, Informative

    NaCL is no good because it is tied to x86. The web is about openness and platform-independence, and NaCl is a step backwards. In this respect it is worse than Java and worse than Flash; it is more like slightly improved ActiveX.

    NaCl is not tied to x86, even in it's current form. Currently, NaCl comes with compilers for x86, AMD64 and ARM. However, this should only be seen as an intermediate step, as the long term plans for NaCl is PNaCl ("Portable NaCl"), which uses LLVM bit code instead of architecture specific machine code. I think this makes much more sense then either WebGL or JavaScript in terms of openness of the web, as it will essentially allow developers to create web apps in any language of their choosing, instead of forcing JavaScript as "the one language of the web" onto everyone.

  10. Re:I think you're thinking of "Onlive" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does GMail run in the "cloud" or local?

    All GMail rendering happens locally. Why would a "cloud" gaming service be different.

    I love the term cloud. It means fuck all and everything at the same time.