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Re:Unreal Engine change its price for non-game apps by ireallywantthat on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:28AM (#37775766)
Could be a huge win for Godot.
Re:Unreal Engine change its price for non-game apps by pjmlp on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:32AM (#37775793)
Usually given as example in these last weeks, always forgetting about lack of feature parity.
Re:Unreal Engine change its price for non-game apps by TulliusCicero on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:50AM (#37775890)
Nobody's forgetting about it. Godot is trying to be a competitor, but realistically they don't have nearly the funding or total manpower that Unity or Unreal have, at least at the moment, but at the same time, they're still making good progress on being viable for some things (they're already very viable for most 2D games, and 3D games with simple graphics).
Re:Unreal Engine change its price for non-game apps by pjmlp on Thursday October 05, 2023 @04:34AM (#37776189)
Doesn't look like it, given the amount of times it keeps being pushed as "alternative".
Re:Unreal Engine change its price for non-game apps by Narann on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:39AM (#37775830)
Unreal for VFX is hard to scale, but have some interesting iterative advantages. If Godot is the alternative, VFX will likely fall back to path tracing.
Re:Unreal Engine change its price for non-game apps by mattigames on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:41AM (#37775845)
That reads suspiciously similar to that dreaded meme of "this is good for Bitcoin"
Re:Unreal Engine change its price for non-game apps by stavros on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:58AM (#37775947)
Except that's always said when something bad for Bitcoin happens. The analogue here would be to say "this is actallg good for Unreal", as it's definitely good for Godot that a competitor started charging.
Re:Unreal Engine change its price for non-game apps by Dylan16807 on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:53AM (#37775907)
I can see a little resemblance in bringing up something that didn't need to come up, but a competitor raising prices is pretty relevant.

And that meme didn't really take off until it was about all kind of bad events, arguing that actually they were good things, and that's clearly not what's happening here.

Re:Unreal Engine change its price for non-game apps by oblio on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:53AM (#37775912)
You actually made me check, both Bitcoin and Ethereum are holding up remarkably well after the interest rate increases.

Can anyone that follows cryptocurrencies confirm something? I have a suspicion than 99% of smaller cryptocurrencies have been wiped out, though.

Re:Unreal Engine change its price for non-game apps by tormeh on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:54AM (#37775921)
Godot and Unreal aren't really competing in a lot of areas. No one's going to make movies using Godot any time soon, for example. Unreal's rendering is just so far ahead of the pack.
Re:Unreal Engine change its price for non-game apps by dym_sh on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:55AM (#37775927)
this comment has to be satire?

Blender is 1000 times closer to intended usecases

Re:Unreal Engine change its price for non-game apps by niclo on Thursday October 05, 2023 @04:15AM (#37776067)
Can you create apps like these on Blender ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37776009

Re:Unreal Engine change its price for non-game apps by andybak on Thursday October 05, 2023 @04:25AM (#37776123)
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing but you've not engaged with the "intended usecases" part of the comment you're replying to. You both disagree on what "intended usecases" really are in this context so engage with that rather than replying with a bunch of videos.