Editor tools what to learn next?

Quote from Jetsetlemming

Have you tried environmental design in a 3d modeling program like Maya? It's certainly a significant part of the industry, I think.

or XSI by example.

Quote from Seldoon182

or XSI by example.

or 3DS Max

Hammer and radient are very similar apart from radient is completely manual when it comes to portaling and also features patch meshes (for making curved walls / pipes etc).

A version of radient with Hammer's texture allignment tools and displacements would be fantastic.

Anyhoo you should be able to go from hammer to radient and vise versa pretty easyily although I would reckomend getting to grips with hammer first as radient's interface isn't very begginer friendly.

lol, this is mapcore, what would you expect the poll results to be where there's an option in there that reads "hammer"?!

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Source is apparently super ultra cheap to license and gets used for stuff like edutainment games. There's about half a dozen "real" videogames either made or coming out in Source third party. VtmB, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, Postal 3, Sin: Episodes Emergence, Zenoclash, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_engine

They're doing better than ID licensing right now, actually

I haven't heard any news of anyone licensing Cryengine. Maybe once their console versions are ready.

I was thinking about this quite some time ago. As far as FPS engines go, UT3 dominates 3rd party liscenses by a long shot. Due to it's scalability/portability and non reliance on direct X it appears on all sorts of platforms. Source and IDtech don't come close.

Here's some details I got from wikipedia in june this year (wikipedia takes forever to load through work firewall so can't check for updated lists). There were no details for Cryengine or IDtech5 at the time I got this info.

Software Licenses

IDTech4 (Doom3 Engine)

Doom 3 – id Software

Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil – Nerve Software

Quake 4 – Raven Software

Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles – Capcom

Prey – Human Head Studios

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars – Splash Damage

Return to Castle Wolfenstein II – Raven Software

Source

Counter-Strike: Source

Day of Defeat: Source

Half-Life: Source

Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2 Episodes (One, Two and Three)

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

Portal

Team Fortress 2

Left 4 Dead

Other developers

Alien Swarm: Infested

The Crossing

Dark Messiah Might and MagicDark Messiah Might and Magic

Garry's Mod

Mabinogi Heroes

Natural Selection 2

Postal III

Prime

Salvation

SiN Episodes

Sting: The Secret Operations

The Ship

Twilight War: After the Fall (production resumed)

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines

Zeno Clash

Untitled Threewave Software game

Kuma Reality Games

DinoHunters

Dogfights: The Game

The History Channel's ShootOut! The Game

The Kill Point: Game

Kuma\War 2

Education and research

VR Worlds 2

Unreal Engine 3

50 Cent: Blood on the Sand — (2008) Swordfish Studios

A4 (sequel to A3) - (2009) AniPark

Aliens: Colonial Marines — (Late 2008) Gearbox Software

Alpha Protocol - (Spring 2009) Obsidian Entertainment

America's Army 3.0 — (2008) US Army

American Mcgee's Grimm - (2008) Spicy Horse

APB — (2008) Realtime Worlds

Army of Two — (2008) Electronic Arts

Alliance of Valiant Arms - (2007) Pmang

Black College Football: BCFX: The Xperience - (2007) Nerjyzed Entertainment

Black Powder Red Earth - (TBA) Echelon Software

Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway — (2008) Gearbox Software[23]

BioShock - (2007) 2K Boston/2K Australia

BlackSite: Area 51 — (2007) Midway Austin

Blitz - (2008) CJIG

Borderlands - (TBA) Gearbox Software

Crimecraft - (2008) Vogster Entertainment

Damnation - (TBA) Blue Omega / Point of View

DC Comics MMO — (TBA) Sony Online Entertainment

Earth No More — (2009) Recoil Games / 3D Realms

Empire - (TBA) Chair Entertainment

Empire: Alpha Complex - (TBA) Chair Entertainment

Ender's Game — (TBA) Chair Entertainment

Elveon — (TBA) 10tacle Studios[24]

End - (TBA) Faramix Enterprises[25]

Fatal Inertia — (2007) Koei[26]

Free Realm - (TBA) Sony Online Entertainment

Frontlines: Fuel of War — (2008) Kaos Studios

Fury — (2007) Auran[27]

Gears of War — (2006) Epic Games

Gears of War 2 — (2008) Epic Games

Global Agenda — (TBA) Hi-Rez Studios[28]

Hail to the Chimp — (2008) Wideload Games [29]

Highlander: The Game — (TBA 2008) TBA

Hei$t - (2008) inXile Entertainment

Hour of Victory — (2007) Midway Games

Huxley — (2008) Webzen Games[30]

Lost Odyssey — (2007) Mistwalker[31]

Mass Effect — (2007) BioWare[32]

Magna Carta 2 - (TBA) Softmax

Medal of Honor: Airborne — (2007) Electronic Arts[33]

Mirror´s Edge (TBA) DICE

Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia — (2007) Artificial Studios[34]

Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe - (2008) Midway

Mortal Online - (2009) Star Vault

Parabellum - (2008) Acony

Project M - (TBA) NC Soft

Red Steel sequel - (TBA) Ubisoft

Rise of the Argonauts - (2008) Liquid Entertainment

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy - (2008) High Moon Studios

RoboBlitz — (2006) Naked Sky Entertainment[35]

Rogue Warrior: Black Razor - (2007) Bethesda Softworks

Section 8 (2009) Timegate Studios

Sephiroth 2 - (TBA) IMagic Entertainment

Sin City - (TBA) Transmission Games / RedMile Entertainment[36]

Stargate Worlds — (2008) Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment[37]

Stranglehold — (2007) Midway Chicago[38]

The Agency - (2008) Sony Online Entertainment

The Last Remnant — (2008) Square Enix

The Scourge Project — (N/A) Tragnarion Studios

Tiberium — (TBA) Electronic Arts[39]

TNA iMPACT! - (2008) Midway Games / Point of View

To End All Wars — (2008) Kuju Entertainment [40] [41]

Tom Clancy's EndWar — (2008) Ubisoft

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas - (2006) Ubisoft

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 - (2008) Ubisoft

Too Human - (TBA) Silicon Knights (until ditched in favour of an internal engine)

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty — (2008) Spark Unlimited

Turok — (2008) Propaganda Games

Undertow — (2007) Chair Entertainment

Unreal Tournament 3 — (2007) Epic Games

The Wheelman — (2008) Midway Games

Warmonger - (2008) NetDevil

MU2 (2010) - Webzen[citation needed]

collaborated with People Can Fly on design of a new IP for Epic - Epic Games and People Can Fly[citation needed]

Unreal Engine 3 Licensees for Educations

The Jim Henson Company

University of Advancing Technology

Louisiana State University in Shreveport

Centennial College

Expression College for Digital Arts

Digital Media Arts College

The Art Institute of California

Unreal Engine 3 Licensees for CG Animations

Warner Bros.

Frantic Films

Buena Vista

HDFilms

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Columbia Pictures

TriStar Pictures

Square-Enix

Like others have mentioned, learning a 3d package would probably be beneficial regardless of what engine your working with. I don't work in the industry but that makes sense to me.

that list wasn't complete in june either. esp when it comes to education I know a good hand full of universities with CE2 or Source at hands. And as pointed out in the Midway Thread it seems UE3 is currently losing a lot of studios (basically every Midway Studio could be affected atm)