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There are no other better engines and what's more, there only two serious competitors out there. CryEngine and Unity. CryEngine has nowhere near the amount of d
by trueSlav 10y ago
There are no other better engines and what's more, there only two serious competitors out there. CryEngine and Unity. CryEngine has nowhere near the amount of documentation UE has (both official and unofficial) and investing time into learning to work with CryEngine is questionable since the company behind it may go bakrupt at any time and the skills you'll learn are not really usable outside of your project(s) since pretty much no one in the industry (except CIG and Warhorse) uses it. Unity is great for what it is, but it's not exactly the best choice as far as ambitious projects go.
- Thaxll 10y agoFor public engines yes, for private engine it's another story!
- AsyncAwait 10y agoWell, we're talking about public engines here, so you point is kind of irrelevant.
- sho_hn 10y agoCIG switched to Amazon's Lumberyard fork of CryEngine, which I suspect will become the canonical upstream, provided Amazon keeps up it's support and doesn't alienate people with crazy Amazon service tie-ins. My (not very in-depth or researched) impression is that the original team at CryTek suffered a brain drain long before this latest round of financial difficulties (e.g. lead engineer Tiago Sousa moving to id Software to succeed John Carmack as lead renderer guy), so I suspect they don't have a huge the "real change is happening in this branch" advantage over Lumberyard anymore, and Amazon is surely more stable than CryTek is. Note I'm not working inside this industry, this is just pieced together from news observation.