Epic's Free UDK Updates With Movie Capture, Adaptive Tessellation

The latest beta release of Epic's free Unreal Development Kit was released Wednesday, with new features that include a movie capturing suite, adaptive tessellation, material functions and more. According to Epic, UDK has been installed over 900,000 times to date, around 100,000 more than what the company reported back in May. The new features in today's release are detailed on UDK's official website. Other changes include improvements to UDK's material editor and a "greatly improved" editor startup time. Introduced in 2009, UDK is the free non-commercial version of Epic's popular Unreal 3 game engine.