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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 – Installing ConTEXT


Find the installer included with this book, or go to http://www.contexteditor.org and download the latest version.

  1. Run the installer. It will ask what language to use.

  2. The installer will ask where we want to install the program. The location doesn't matter, choose a convenient location or leave it at the default.

  3. The installer will ask if you would like to add shortcuts or Replace Windows Notepad. Let's leave this at the default for now unless you don't need the shortcuts.

  4. Review the settings and click on Install to finish the installation.

  5. After ConTEXT is finished installing, let's run it!

What just happened?

With ConTEXT installed we have a simple, but powerful tool to make our coding lives easier. We can drag files from the Development\Src folder directly onto ConTEXT to open them, or use the File Explorer pane on the left to browse through the directories. However, before we're ready to use it for programming, we need to configure a few things.