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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

Summary


We learned a lot in this chapter about how the UDK works and how to set up our own game project.

Specifically, we covered:

  • The UDK directories and what goes into each folder. We know which folders we'll be working in as programmers as well as the ones any artists or designers on the project would be using.

  • Which programs we can use to work with UnrealScript. We know that there are two aspects to programming, writing the code and being able to easily browse the existing source code.

  • How to set up our own project and compile and test code that we've written. We know how to use UnrealEd and the Logs folder to help us test and make sure our code is running correctly.

Now that we've learned about the UDK, we're ready to start learning more about the UnrealScript language by taking a look at variables and operators—which is the topic of the next chapter.