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Unreal Development Kit Game Design Cookbook

By : Thomas Mooney
Book Image

Unreal Development Kit Game Design Cookbook

By: Thomas Mooney

Overview of this book

UDK is a free, world class game editing tool and being so powerful it can be daunting to learn. This guide offers an excellent set of targeted recipes to help game artists get up to speed with game designing in UDK.Unreal Development Kit Game Design Cookbook contains everything you need to jumpstart your game design efforts. The lessons are aimed squarely at the artist's field of production, with recipes on asset handling, creating content within the editor, animation and visual scripting to get the content working in gameplay.Unreal Game Development Kit Game Design Cookbook exposes how real-time environments are built using UDK tools. Key features are examined ñ assets, animation, light, materials, game controls, user interface, special effects, and game interactivity - with the view of making UDK technically accessible so users can transcend technique and focus on their creative design process. The book has well prepared recipes for level designers and artists of all levels. It covers core design tools and processes in the editor, particularly setting up characters, UI approaches, configuration and scripting gameplay. It is a technical guide that allows game artists to go beyond just creating assets, and it includes creative, extensive demonstrations that extend on mere functionality.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Unreal Development Kit Game Design Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Enabling the remote control for game inspection


This is a method for turning on an extra feature of UDK called the Remote Control that can be used to manipulate render nodes, inspect Actors, and evaluate performance.

How to do it...

  1. In Windows, go to the Start menu or your desktop and find the shortcut for the UDK Editor and right-click on it to expose its properties.

  2. In the Target field edit it to read: C:\UDK\~\Binaries\UDKLift.exe editor -wxwindows -remotecontrol -log.

  3. The main point of this entry is so that we can launch a tool called RemoteControl. The usefulness of running the -log window increases over time. It is used for tracking what is happening while you run the editor and PIE. When trouble shooting problems in Kismet or with missing assets for example, it is a good first port of call for seeing where and when errors occur.

  4. In the following screenshot, the log shows the creation of a Trigger Touch event in the main Kismet sequence based on the actor Trigger_0 in the scene:

  5. Having...