Making its debut in 1998, the first generation Unreal Engine integrated rendering, collision detection, AI, visibility, networking and file system management into one complete engine.

With the level of integration used, some trade-offs were necessary to maintain performance levels with the hardware that was available at the time.

For example, Epic decided to use cylindrical collision detection over the IK collision detection system in an effort to maintain playable framerates on systems that were common at the time of its release. Internally, Epic used this engine for Unreal and Unreal Tournament.

Features

  • 32-bit fully colored soft animated dynamic lighting
    • Multicolored lighting
      • with true colored intermixing of fuzzy shadows
    • Supports raytraced and enveloped lighting
    • Radial, cylindrical, spotlight, searchlight, ambient, spherical, shell, and 20+ special effect lights
    • Caustic effects such as "fire waver", "watery shimmer", and the like can be applied to lights
    • Supports lens flares and coronas
  • Extensible BSP and portal technology
    • Mirror surfaces
    • Semireflective materials, such as marble surfaces which partially reflect light
    • Non-euclidean, redirectable "warp" portal effects for seeing through teleporters
    • Seeing through windows into an infinite sky zone in which a sky, planets, mountains, and other objects are constructed
    • Skies and backgrounds with independent coordinate systems for independent translation and rotationz
  • Curved-surface rendering support
    • with an adaptive level-of-detail subdivision surface rendering algorithm
    • eliminating polygonization
  • 32-bit colored 512x512 size texture support
    • Emboss bump mapping
    • Multi-texturing
    • Dynamic range scaled detail textures
    • Procedurally animated textures
  • ClipTexturing
  • Multiple channels of vertex animation support
  • Skeletal animation support
    • Smooth-skinned Geometry
  • Facial animation
    • With lipsync animation
  • Hardware brush with static meshes
  • Height-mapped filed terrain support
  • Decal support
  • Light bloom
  • Fog volume
  • Distance fog
  • Volumetric lighting
  • S3TC texture compression
  • High resolution texture 1024x1024 size support
  • Environment mapping support
  • Multy-skybox system
  • Very improved multi-skybox system
  • Complex particles system
  • Extensible particles system
  • Fully digital audio based module sound system
  • Digital music, MP3, CD Audio, module music, s3m, etc support
  • Doppler shift
  • A3D support
  • Software 3D sound
  • Surround sound
  • Dynamic Music System
  • Improved support on A3D, EAX, DS3D
  • Newly highly enhancing A.I. algorithms and BOT A.I. and teamwork A.I.
  • Newly very improved network code
  • Real-time recording of in-engine footage as replayable 'demo' files
  • Enhanced demo reconding system
  • GUI editor
  • Imploved GUI editor
  • Native support for localization of text to 8-bit languages, via CODEPAGE 850 and replaceable fonts
    • Built-in UnrealScript and C++ support for externalization of all text, enabling non-programmer translation to all 8-bit languages
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When the classic shooter Unreal came out in 1998 it was praised for its rich graphics and innovative gameplay. Rediscovering these great old-school gems is tons of fun, and what better way to do it than with some crisp and beautiful graphic updates. This HD texture pack along with the HD Skins mod makes Unreal truly shine!

There have been HD textures available for Unreal for a long time now, but it was a work in progress. DiehardSCSW started the project, and did a whole lot of great work which is included in the pack. In January of 2019 I decided to take on the job of fully completing the Unreal Retexturing Project (URP). I had done some HD textures for the URP way back in the past. In terms of the scale of the texture pack - It's pretty big. There are well over 2000 textures in the project and more that half still needed to be remade in HD or fixed up.

There is a version of this pack that is server compatible with Unreal (227) and also Unreal Tournament (UT99). The texture pack is mainly intended for Unreal single player, but many single player mods run on the UT99 platform, so it exists for both. This release does not intend to cover all of UT99s textures- just the ones in common with Unreal. Maybe I'll take on the UT specific textures in a future pack...

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Throughout the process of making this release, I have been collaborating with Lightning Hunter, who has done the HD Skins mod. He is also releasing a 2.0 version of that mod, so please check that out and use it with this pack!

Visit the Unreal HD Textures website for more download options, news and other goodies.

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darkelf1
darkelf1

i played unreal in 1998,wow, what a beauty, so much better graphic than quake 2. i know oneday it will become the best game engine.

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Pretoria
Pretoria

UT 1999 is freaking awesome and have some awesome weaps

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asvigny
asvigny

I think they should release this engine for free...

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UT99_Shadow
UT99_Shadow

yarp. but epic fears the UE1 modders... they really do

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Blade_Sword
Blade_Sword

Unfortunately even to this day the engine isn't free at all. I wonder why considering how UE3 can be used freely for free projects.

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Ichiman94
Ichiman94

where is the GUI editor?

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mastachiefs4
mastachiefs4

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UT 99 and all the others are the same...
COD is shoot kill....
GOW is shoot kill....
Face it retard all shooters are the same pretty much..
And it is not just shoot kill if you have mods or make mods(most likely you dont).

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Pretoria
Pretoria

Your a retarded if you wanna know

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