Developer posts and news about this game.
As part of our long-term plan to consolidate users into a single app ID on Steam, we are migrating all Ultra Engine users to the Leadwerks app ID. This week, your Steam account will be automatically upgraded to include Leadwerks Game Engine. What this means for you: You will auto
Ultra Engine 1.0.1 is released, with a host of improvements and fixes, as we prepare to exit early access. Game Menu System A new game menu system has been added into the default project template, for both C++ and Lua. This will enable a menu system for your game, along with opti
Ultra Engine 1.0.0 is here with new features, improved usability, access to thousands of free 3D assets, and hours of new video tutorials. This release marks the last major update before we exit Early Access on Steam. Lua Language Server Integration For the first time, we're able
Ultra Engine 0.9.9 is here with new features, improved usability, and access to thousands of free 3D assets to use in your games. This new update is the most stable and user-friendly version of our engine and editor to date. Revised Interface We've made great improvements to the
Join us on Discord for a GDC-quality presentation detailing the challenges and solutions we encountered during the development of the first-person shooter example, internally known as XFORM . The presentation will be full of helpful advice every game developer needs to know.
Ultra Engine 0.9.8 is here with a groundbreaking material painting system, robust tessellation, and a first-person shooter template to provide a head start on your next game. New features and enhancements make it easier than ever to create games and simulations that look great an
The latest update to Ultra Engine, version 0.9.7, introduces an all-new decals system, particle emitters, enhanced entity and material properties, and improved flowgraphs. New features and enhancement make it easier than ever to create performant games and simulations that look g
Ultra Engine 0.9.6 is here, with a new foliage system that replaces and improves the vegetation system in Leadwerks. Whereas Leadwerks used a geometry shader, Ultra uses a compute shader that provides more power and better performance. The biggest improvement is the inclusion of
Existing projects must be updated via the project manager. See "Synchronization" here: The previous version 0.9.5 is still available as an optional branch you can opt into, if you need to for any reason.
Join us on Discord to review the week's progress and discuss continue development. This week we will review the finished foliage system and discuss ongoing development of our sample game XFORM.
Join us on Discord to review the week's progress and discuss continue development. This week we will walk you through a short tutorial on how to use the new foliage system.
Version 0.9.5 fully supports AMD cards, with a new OpenGL 4.6 rendering backend for improved stability and performance. A lot of new shaders are used and existing projects must be updated using the sync tool in the Project Manager dialog. It is recommended that you make a copy of
Join us on Discord to review the week's progress and discuss continue development. This week we will discuss the new mesh layers system, for terrain vegetation, rocks, etc.
This update fixes many small bugs and adds usability improvements in the editor.
This is a bug fix update. See the bug reports forum for all recently resolved issues: