UnrealEd - Versions

Versions

With the various Unreal games, UnrealEd itself has seen many different versions. Unreal shipped with UnrealEd 1.0, which displayed most of the editing tools on a single large left bar adjacent to the four viewports. This version was extremely buggy, particularly while rebuilding maps.

Unreal Tournament also shipped with UnrealEd 1.0, and UnrealEd 2.0 being added in a later game patch. The editor underwent a major visual change from the previously colorful buttons to a more subdued green scheme. New tools and features were added (such as search capabilities and a new 2D Shape Editor), and it also underwent a significant stability upgrade, and though the editor still had its share of strange crashes, it wasn't nearly as particular as UEd 1.0. There are also some bugs like the movers' collision (they block the bullets and they use to be like invisible walls) and the white screens (that you aren't able to see the 3D and the 2D screens)

Bundled with Unreal Tournament 2003 was UnrealEd 3, with further increased stability. It maintained the green colors, and looks virtually identical to UEd 2.0. The editor added a static mesh browser to support static meshes (known as "hardware brushes" during development), and combined the various browsers into a single browser with tabs to switch between textures, meshes, actors, etc.

Future versions of UnrealEd will be fully backwards compatible with content developed under previous versions.