The unreal editor as a Web 3D authoring environment

Epic Games provides a free game level editor with titles based on its Unreal engine. The editor provides a rich set of authoring tools that can be used to create fully interactive environments. This paper describes a tool that converts Unreal levels to webready environments in VRML and X3D. The paper also examines the similarities between first-person-shooter games and web 3D worlds, and discusses the implications of having a low-cost, fully featured virtual world authoring environment available for creating web 3D content. CR Categories: I.7.2 [VRML]; K.8.0 [Games]; K.8.1 [Freeware/Shareware] and [Graphics]; I.3.4 [Graphics Utilities]; I.3.5 [Computational Geometry and Object Modeling]; I.3.6 [Methodology and Techniques]; I.3.7 [Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism]; I.3.8 [Applications]

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: VRML
• Authors: David Arendash
• Keywords: Game Level Editor, Unreal Engine, VRML 2004, World Authoring Environment