U3 Game Development Resources
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Tips, tutorials, etc.
If you make a breakthrough and think others would benefit, write up a tutorial, add it as a page to the wiki, and post a link to it here. To add a page, append the title to the url above (like this: http://wikis.lib.ncsu.edu/index.php?title=U3_Game_Development_Resources/My_New_Tutorial), then click on "edit this page". Save your work, then add a link to it in this section.
- Follow the Getting Started Tutorial for recommendations on how to begin.
- Tip: To get the log files to be saved to your mod's directory, add this parameter to your mod's shortcut: -log=..\..\YourModName\Logs\Launch.log
- Tip: To duplicate items from UT3 packages to mod use this command: obj savepackage file=C:\tmpdata package="package name" then right click and duplicate
- How to add background music for your title screen and main menu.
- How to spawn a dropped weapon.
- How to remove the login screen.
- How to use text to speech.
- How to use scriptable materials.
General
- Mod Switch Tutorials - Introduction, Configuration Walkthrough, Menu Classes and Datastore Needs, Frontend Map and UIScenes
- UDN - Unreal Engine 3 Site Map
- UDN - UT3 Mod Home
- Epic's UT3 Forums
- Unreal Wiki
- BeyondUnreal Forums
- ModDB UT3 Tutorials - Tutorials covering mutators and a couple other topics.
- IceCreamYou Tutorial Index - An outline of topics with links to associated tutorials.
- Peder's Game Development Corner - Setting up WOTgreal, other links and tips.
Unreal Editor
- Learning Unreal Engine 3 - Covers basic editor usage, importing custom assests, lighting, materials, skydomes, fog. Also includes list of useful console commands and a checklist to use when finalizing a map.
- Hourences' Tutorials - Covers the material editor, terrain, foliage, water, modeling, sound, physics, reflections, fog, particle editor, decals, lighting, music, preview screenshots.
- UT40K Tutorials - Covers custom characters, custom weapons, and custom vehicles.
- Custom Character Creation - All the details about creating a custom character.
- UIScene/UISkin Editor Tutorial
- Doug Oberndof's Tutorials - Camera setups, cinematics, item collection, menus and huds, animations, and special effects with the Unreal Editor and Kismet.
- Camera Animation Tutorial - see more (partially complete) tutorials from the author here.
- Mid Game Menu Tutorial - Covers how to make custom Mid Game Menu scenes for UI
3D Buzz Training Videos
- UTForge (Embedded) - play videos in browser
- FilePlanet (Individual downloads) - download each of the videos separately
- FilePlanet (Single download) - download all videos in a single pack
Kismet
- AVLD's Tutorials - An introduction to Kismet, along with detailed explanations of the actions, conditions, variables, and events. Also includes a number of implemented examples.
- UDN - Kismet Reference
UnrealScript
- UDN - UnrealScript Language Reference
- UnrealScript Documentation - Browse UT3's exported script. May be outdated/incomplete due to patches.
- UT3 Development Notes
Specific Topics
- Unreal Wiki: Archetype - Explanation of ObjectArchetypes that appear in exported scripts.
- Precaching Custom Characters
Editing Tools
- nFringe - Visual Studio 2008 plug-in. See here for nFringe's forums.
- WOTgreal - UnrealScript IDE
- UnCodeX - Can be used to create a high detailed HTML API reference from your code.
- MonkeyBuild