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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 UnCo


Find the installer included with this book, or head to http://sourceforge.net/projects/uncodex and download the latest version of UnCodeX.

  1. Run the installer. It will ask you to accept the agreement. Read through it and accept.

  2. Choose where you want to install the program. The location doesn't matter so choose a place convenient for you.

  3. The default setting for the components is fine, so let's use a Full Installation. This will give us a graphical interface and some extra help files if we need them.

  4. UnCodeX will ask whether you would like to add a Start Menu folder. Select your options and continue.

  5. Select where you would like shortcuts placed and click on Next.

  6. Review the installation settings and click on Install!

  7. When the installation finishes, exit without running UnCodeX.

What just happened?

With UnCodeX installed we have a great way to browse through and search Epic's source code, as well as our own when we start creating it. UnCodeX is also very useful for debugging broken code. Now that it's installed, we need to set it up to work with our UDK directory.