Eye-popping Lighting and Shadows

Eye-dropping Lighting, Shadows and EffectsUDK features the newest and most advanced lighting and shadow features, including global illumination from Unreal Lightmass. All these features are easily added to your creation through UnrealEd.

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  • Illuminate
    UDK gives you all the options to perfectly light any scene. Ambient occlusion, per-pixel lighting, fill lighting and fully dynamic specular lighting and reflections are all possible with UE3.
  • Unreal Lightmass
    Unreal Lightmass is an advanced global illumination solver. Light your world with a single sun, giving off soft shadows, and let the diffuse interreflection (color bleeding) do the work.
  • Detailed Shadows
    Advanced shadowing with support for four techniques:
    • Dynamic stencil shadow volumes.
    • Dynamic characters casting dynamic soft shadows.
    • Ultra high-quality and high-performance pre-computed shadow masks.
    • Directional light mapping with static shadowing and diffuse normal-mapped lighting. An unlimited number of lights can be pre-computed and stored in a single set of texture maps.