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UE4 or UDK?
Question in brief: Should I switch to UE4 now, or should I wait until I have a working prototype in UDK and then switch? I definitely plan to switch at some point, but it's unlikely I'll have anything...
"spadak" wrote:
Also you can pay once for version 4.3 and stop your subscription and continue developing.
When you are ready, you can pay again and upgrade to latest version..
I have read this too. Not sure whether it's officially sanctioned by Epic or not, although I expect if they were worried about it they'd tighten up their terms a bit.
However with something like the Oculus SDK, there would definitely be a need for regular updates, which probably makes that approach less feasible. As far as I know, UDK is still being supported so updates like that will continue to be rolled out. Perhaps less frequently, but usually when software is updated more often it's also more accepted to ship with bugs and fix them later, so that likely cuts both ways.
Having done some digging around it looks like UDK doesn't currently support DK2 anyway, which might force me to switch if I want to get to work right away. It look like I'm in the first batch for DK2 although I haven't had a shipping confirmation yet, it says "processing" and payment has been taken, which I believe means it is ready to ship, it just hasn't left the distribution hub yet as some others have.