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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

Time for action – Taking care of other function errors.


Let's take a look at some more function errors:

  1. Say we had the following code:

    simulated function PostBeginPlay()
    {
        `log("PostBeginPlay!");
    }
    
    simulated function PostBeginPlay()
    {
        local int SomeInt;
        SomeInt = 5;
        `log("SomeInt is:" @ SomeInt);
    }
  2. The code seems fine, but if we compile it we get:

    [0003.86] Log: R:\UDK\UDK-AwesomeGame\Development\Src\BrokenGame\Classes\BrokenActor.uc(9) : Error, 'PostBeginPlay' conflicts with 'Function BrokenGame.BrokenActor:PostBeginPlay'
  3. This one's easy to avoid. Classes can only have one function with any one name; trying to have more than one with the same name will give us an error.

  4. This next one's a bit obscure, since static functions aren't used that much. Suppose we had this code:

    static function float GetRadius()
    {
        local float Radius, Height;
    
        GetBoundingCylinder(Radius, Height);
        return Radius;
    }
  5. Trying to compile that would give us this error:

    [0003.87] Log: R:\UDK\UDK-AwesomeGame...