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I want to start on learning to develop games using Unreal Engine. I have found tutorials but they all use UDK, and since I am using Mac OS X, I can't have UDK but instead UE4.

My question is, is UDK and UE4 similar with UE4 being improved, and can I watch UDK videos and apply on UE4?

Alexander O'Mara
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UDK was what they called the SDK for Unreal Engine 3.

Unreal Engine 4 doesn't use the UDK name anymore, likely because it's not just an SDK that is available for most-people anymore, it's the entire engine.

My question is, is UDK and UE4 similar with UE4 being improved, and can I watch UDK videos and apply on UE4?

UE4 is a pretty significant change from UDK/UE3. Some aspects and concepts from UDK may be applicable, but you are probably better off using UE4 resources to get started. Epic has and continues to release a substantial amount of resource through their website, and their YouTube channel. There is also loads of 3rd-party resources out there.

Alexander O'Mara
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  • I have seen the resources provided by Unreal themselves, but couldn't find 3rd-party resources. Can you please provide me with them, whether video or books. Thanks! – coding4fun Jul 28 '15 at 05:48
  • @coding4fun I haven't gotten to work with UE4 as much, so I can't make too many recommendations. Epic has [a Wiki page](https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Category:Tutorials) for community tutorials. I believe Digital-Tutors released some UE4 tutorials if you have access to or are will to pay for them. I would definitely start with Epic's getting started guides though, before using other resources. – Alexander O'Mara Jul 28 '15 at 05:51
  • Udemy have some decent training tutorials – Slipoch Nov 14 '17 at 05:58
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UDK was made from UnrealEngine 3 which required permitting and UDK didn't. This was in 2009. I envision that UE4 is presumably much further kroger feedback developed than the UDK now UDK was what they called the SDK for Unreal Engine 3.

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