Unreal Engine 4 - GT.TV Exclusive Development Walkthrough
What it is
A GameTrailers walkthrough from E3 2012 of an Unreal Engine 4 real-time tech demo with Epic's Alan Willard. It shows live code changes and hot reloading while the game runs.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as a favorite demo of live coding and hot reload in a game engine.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 1 strong recommendations
- first 2015, last 2016
What HN commenters said
“This is my favorite Unreal 4 demo”
Unreal 4 demo with live code swapping while in game.
archivator, 2015-03 · Strong recommendation · in “Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: unreal engine 4, live coding, hot reload, game development, e3
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