Mono for Unreal Engine

http://mono-ue.github.io/

by stesch • 11 years ago

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mono-ue.github.io

baldfat7• 11 years ago

Mono and C# are now being used by both Unity and Unreal. This certainly gives further momentum to the language for game developers. With all the past license changes and the cross platform nature of Unreal and Unity this makes it a lot more pursading to learn C#\Mono for game development.

Personally I have a few educational games I would like to write and still can't decide what tool would be best, certainly Unreal will be to over the top for my ideas, but Unity keeps seeming like it would get me out the door quicker. The issue always was writing in Java Script or C# with C# always looking like a much better option.

k__• 11 years ago

Yes, but it would be nice to have something in between JavaScript and C#. Some 2D game devs I know use Löve2D (Lua) or Phaser (JavaScript) with TypeScript.

On the other hand Löve2D and Phaser haven't nearly the Unity tooling.

Narishma5• 11 years ago

Unreal doesn't use Mono or C#.

stesch5• 11 years ago

Title of this post: Mono for Unreal Engine

baldfat7• 11 years ago

Unreal doesn't use Mono or C#

FROM THE READING "With Mono for Unreal Engine, you can now use the latest version of C# to write your gameplay code, AI behaviors, UI elements, and more."

baldfat7• 11 years ago

So you down vote and make a statement that is the opposite of the announcement with nothing to back up your claim on this post or the other post stating this isn't the real world situation?

shadowmint5• 11 years ago

You realize this is officially abandoned right?

https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?54595-I-want-...

&tldr; Epic saw the Unity thing and went 'nope; not unless you make it free forever'.

(Also, don't bother. It doesn't work with the most recent version of the engine either)

TillE• 11 years ago

What's the "Unity thing"?

I'm disappointed that the semi-official Lua integration seems to have gone nowhere for the past six months or so. I think that's a much better intermediate step between C++ and Blueprints.

shadowmint5• 11 years ago

Unity licensed mono, with a very special license, for that specific version of mono. Then there was what, 4 or 5 years of wrangling and no C# version updates because of licensing and royalty disagreements with 'whoever owns mono at the moment'. I can't honestly be bothered digging the threads up, but search the unity forums and you'll get the whole story.

Unity is now officially pursuing the 'compiles C# to C++' thing. They say it's because its 5-10x faster (and it is... compared to the specific C# runtime they're using...). I'd guess that lets them do some legal loop hole things.

Licensing. Devil's in the details.

Unreal just nipped the whole thing in the bud by saying; make it free and open source, or don't come to the party.

maikklein2• 11 years ago

(Also, don't bother. It doesn't work with the most recent version of the engine either)

That is not the bad thing. They said they wanted to make it stable for 1 version before upgrading to the newest.

The problem is that is super buggy right now. It crashes almost all the time on my machine.

stesch5• 11 years ago

Sorry for wasting everybody's time. I didn't know this isn't a real thing anymore. :-(

I was digging through Reddit and saw some interesting comment by Miguel de Icaza. It was regarding his blog post http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2014/Oct-23.html (Mono for Unreal Engine).

There was no update to the situation in this blog post. No information on the site I posted here. Really bad communication from Miguel and Xamarin. :-(

I have only followed one tutorial for Unity3D and have never tried Unreal Engine. I'm just interested in the topic because it's different from my day job and I'd like to try something new. Posted the link here to provoke some discussion about it.

(The 1980s were so much easier. Not many choices on the C64.)

stesch5• 11 years ago

When was this project abandoned? There's a mailing list and Miguel de Icaza posted last month. Nothing mentioned about abandoning the project.

shadowmint5• 11 years ago

Yes, because the download link was broken and no one noticed. ...because no one was using it.

...that is what an abandoned project looks like.

Mono for Unreal Engine

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