Deer in Unreal engine! (video+PC+Mac!)

Michael Samyn's picture
We have started the remake of The Endless Forest in the Unreal engine!
Here is first test of the deer avatar:



If you want to play with it yourself, you can download a Windows 64-bit build here.

Update: here's the macOS app -the very first time The Endless Forest deer appears on a Mac (at least natively)!

Merry Christmas!
Vessan's picture

This is extremely lovely I

This is extremely lovely Laughing out loud

I wonder, as with how the deer turns it's body when rotating left and right when standing still. Will you also implement such rotating running/walking in circles in the remake so the movement feels even more real?

Merry christmas to you too!
coyoteborders's picture

love... doesn't come close to

love... doesn't come close to what i want to say - but this is more than i dared to hope for. thank you for keeping the magick alive!

brightest blessings for wondrous holiday season!
~ coyote


Mmm.

Mmm. <3
Vanilliana's picture

Absolutely lovely! It's

Absolutely lovely! It's always so good to see progress from you guys, it's cool so far.

Happy holidays! ~
wocio's picture

(No subject)

<3

Lovely! Very exciting

Lovely! Very exciting ♥

Love this a lot.

Love this a lot. <3
Shey's picture

so nice and smooth!! very

so nice and smooth!! very glad to see some progress! :>

!!

!!<3
TreeDancer's picture

So excited omg!

So excited omg!

This looks amazing!

This looks amazing!
Chromai's picture

Ah, it looks more fluid!

Ah, it looks more fluid! Thank you for working on this <3
Aivilo's picture

Wow. This and the sudden

Wow. This and the sudden influx of donations might just be my most favorite Christmas gift in a long time.

Edit: And that sky! Aah!

Yoooo! This is the coolest

Yoooo! This is the coolest Christmas miracle ever!
Snowylittlekitty's picture

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (explodes)
Shanol's picture

Ah, what can be better than

Ah, what can be better than seeing the active progress.
Please keep us updated, this is the best reward.

P.S. I fell off the edge!
Mel in ore, verba lactis,
Fel in corde, fraus in factis.
tatsky's picture

so so good - love the physics

so so good - love the physics so much with this engine!

i'd just like to point out that if you're like me and spam the spacebar a lot, your deer can lock into an odd landing pose for a few seconds after hit hits the ground - it resolves itself pretty fast, but it's something i noticed!
gglidden's picture

Whaaaaaaaaaat. you guys are

Whaaaaaaaaaat. you guys are already working on it!? Man! the hype is real!
Ring The Bells That Still Can Ring.
Forget Your Perfect Offering.
There Is A Crack In Everything.
That's How The Light Gets In.

(A part of the lyrics of Leonard Cohen's Song "Anthem")
Shenere's picture

Its really good to see it

Its really good to see it some little progress!

Glad I was wrong. Smiling

love how it's new and shiny

love how it's new and shiny but still retains the TEF style we know and love! ♥
SimoSimo's picture

Awwww so gorgerous! I love

Awwww so gorgerous! I love the way you try to make our forest more better ^^
Discord: SimoSimo#5556
Flyleaf's picture

Glad to see you working on

Glad to see you working on the endless forest again !
Looking forward to all !
I don't actually understand if phase one to 2 oand so on means we can get vthe whole forest how it is today with all locations and sets or will the new forest be limited at the beginning ??
Avatar @ Sluggs Siggy @ Amazegenalo
Bouncing Fly by Mary13
TreeDancer's picture

MAC OMG YES

MAC OMG YES
EyelessVoid's picture

Oh wow! The motion is so

Oh wow! The motion is so smooth, I love this already. Can't wait to see more.
0baf0's picture

So, I tried out the Windows

So, I tried out the Windows version and it looks nothing like the smooth movement in the video. Does it mean that my hardware/software can't handle even the most basic and plain test run? Am I doing something wrong? (No new TEF for me once it comes out? Because that's the bottom line here.)
Icon - ahimsa.Signature - Qanat. ♥
tatsky's picture

@0baf0 it'd really help if

@0baf0 it'd really help if you could post your computer specs, i think!

it's looking nice!

it's looking nice!
Laryal's picture

Awesomly Cool love it thanks

Awesomly Cool love it thanks for letting us see this. Smiling
Laryal pic by EmiliaYO
HoneyDiva's picture

super-excited for the new

super-excited for the new version of the game. so glad we almost made it to 40k!
TreeDancer's picture

tried to get it on my mac but

tried to get it on my mac but it didn't seem to work, suggestions?
Evern's picture

Tried on two macs without any

Tried on two macs without any results. On one I got an error saying so and so texture wasn't cooked for export, and to make an export where it was. The other it just crashed straight away.

Spyrre's picture

Wow, so exited...!

Wow, so exited...! <3

Heads up to Mac players, this

Heads up to Mac players, this App requires OS X 10.10.5 OR LATER in order to run.
TreeDancer's picture

On one I got an error saying

On one I got an error saying so and so texture wasn't cooked for export, <--- I got this as well

and @ terabetha I have that version on my mac and it still didn't work
Evern's picture

Yep, both macs were higher a

Yep, both macs were higher a version than that. I have a feeling that the export went wrong somehow..

I didn't mean to imply

I didn't mean to imply updating the Mac Operating System would solve the error message (I think you're right Evern, that sounds like something not exporting correctly) but I happened to be running an older OS and just wanted to mention it, in the event there are other older Mac users interested in giving the teaser a go.

edit: Having updated the drivers on my Windows partition I was able to run the sample! The lighting in the unreal engine should be a lot of fun to play with and most of the animations translate pretty well (the usual jitters are still there but running looks very nice). Only thing I noticed was that jumping on the spot without moving my deer forward (so pressing the space bar from a stand still) resulted in just a little vertical jitter instead of the hop a deer would normally do in the existing game.

Please keep sharing little tidbits like this, it's great to watch your progress! I'm especially looking forward to maybe one day running TEF on my Mac so that I can sketch in photoshop with the game in the background. Haven't been able to do that in years and I really miss it.

Posting a new comment because

Posting a new comment because I've managed to get the Mac app to run?! I say 'get' but I didn't really do anything special.

Machine is a late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina, running OS Sierra (version 10.12.2).

The quick run around in the Mac App looks similar to my Windows teaser experience, save that I'm getting noticeable pixelation of the 'horizon' but only in the area where my deer antlers pass through it when running?
Evern's picture

Ah good work! I wish I could

Ah good work! I wish I could get it to work on mine. I'll have to wait till I have access to my PC again.

Also it's probably not the right place to ask this but I'm not sure where else. Will the graphics of TEF be improved, or will the remake be very very literal? I for one would love to see more particles, lusher grass that moves in the wind, higher poly trees etc. Maybe even some animation changes. I'd love to see a faithful remake but, some evolution of graphics might be nice.