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Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript: Beginner's Guide

By : Rachel Cordone
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Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript: Beginner's Guide

By: Rachel Cordone

Overview of this book

Unreal Development Kit is the free edition of Unreal Engine—the largest game engine in existence with hundreds of shipped commercial titles. The Unreal Engine is a very powerful tool for game development but with something so complex it's hard to know where to start.This book will teach you how to use the UnrealScript language to create your own games with the Unreal Development Kit by using an example game that you can create and play for yourself. It breaks down the UnrealScript language into easy to follow chapters that will quickly bring you up to speed with UnrealScript game programming.Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript takes you through the UnrealScript language for the Unreal Development Kit. It starts by walking through a project setup and setting up programs to write and browse code. It then takes you through using variables, functions, and custom classes to alter the game's behavior and create our own functionality. The use and creation of Kismet is also covered. Later, using replication to create and test multiplayer games is discussed. The book closes with code optimization and error handling as well as a few of the less common but useful features of UnrealScript.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 9. Debugging and Optimization

PC Load Letter? What does that mean?

The problem with computers is that they're not psychics. They have no idea what you're trying to accomplish. With any programming language, my mantra has always been this: Computers will never do what you want them to do. They will do exactly what you tell them to do. A lot of the time what you're telling them to do isn't what you want them to do, which causes unexpected bugs, errors, even crashes. Knowing a programming language is one thing, but the most important skill in programming is having the critical thinking skills to figure out why a program is broken and being able to fix it. Most of the code you write will not work correctly the first time. Things will break. A lot!

In this chapter we will:

  • Cover some of the most common errors that you'll encounter while compiling UnrealScript

  • Take a look at some broken code to see if we can fix it

  • Use the log to debug and further clean up our code

  • Use the profiler to minimize...