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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 – Creating and spawning the boss


Let's start by creating the boss class:

  1. Create a new file in Development\Src\AwesomeGame\Classes called AwesomeBoss.uc.

  2. Let's write the class declaration:

    class AwesomeBoss extends AwesomeEnemy;
  3. We'll change two default properties to make him bigger and slower than the minions:

    defaultproperties
    {
      MovementSpeed=128.0
    
      Begin Object Name=EnemyMesh
        Scale3D=(X=1.0,Y=1.0,Z=2.0)
      End Object
    
      Begin Object Name=CollisionCylinder
        CollisionRadius=128.0
        CollisionHeight=256.0
      End Object
    }

This will make him pretty huge.

  1. Now that we have the basic boss class created, let's integrate him into the game. As we don't want the game to end when the minions are defeated, let's change the way their deaths are reported. First, delete the EnemyDied function from AwesomeEnemySpawner.

  2. Now, let's rewrite the TakeDamage function in our AwesomeEnemy_Minion class:

    event TakeDamage(int DamageAmount, Controller EventInstigator, vector HitLocation, vector Momentum...