UnrealEd

The Unreal Editor, UnrealEd short or UED, is the official tool for creating and editing content for the Games of the Unreal Engine. From the Map Editor, there are different issues, depending on the version of the underlying Unreal Engine. He is many games based on this engine, the most famous representatives of the Unreal series, the first-person shooter. The editor allows complete custom maps ( Maps) to create. The UnrealEd is particularly useful for the fans of the multiplayer mode of the game, as the development of new cards is made possible by the extensive and still relatively easy to use editor.

The UnrealEd based on the Unreal Engine, which allows him a direct implementation into play. This ensures that the self-created levels to be accepted by the game and the so-called shader effects, which are light and shadow effects calculation, function properly and compared with the in-game settings set by the player.

By also supply the editor with the game a number of ideas have been implemented for modifications of the game in action. Thus arose in 2004 with the period known modifications of the Unreal Engine, such as Tactical Ops for Unreal Tournament or the Red Orchestra Mod for Unreal Tournament.

Creating levels is similar to working with a 3D program; It is possible a perspective view and three -dimensional views. The perspective view can also be displayed in other display modes such as " wireframe " ( wireframe ), " untextured " etc. switch.

Because of the use of MFC, there were UnrealEd so far only for Windows. With version 4, there should also be a port to Linux and Mac OS X, why was changed from MFC to the cross-platform wxWidgets toolkit.

Play the latest Unreal Engine 3 is the editor at a remanufactured version 4.