Preface 1
Chapter 1: Hello UDK! 5
Setup 6
System requirements 6
Download 7
Installation 8
Folders 8
Shortcut 9
Summary 10
Chapter 2: Moving Around in the Development Environment 11
Content Browser tabs 12
Actor Classes 12
Levels 13
Scene 13
Layers 13
UI and Viewport layout 14
Viewport Camera Controls 15
Hotkeys 16
Viewport toolbar 17
Editor toolbars 19
Summary 19
Chapter 3: Building the Geometry of the World 21
CSG brushes and volumes 23
Builder Brush 23
Geometry Mode and the Pen tool 24
Terrain tool 26
Foliage tools 30
Summary 31
Table of Contents
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Chapter 4: Filling Out your World with Details 33
Static meshes 33
Architecture 33
Decoration 36
Particle effects 37
Lighting 42
Post processing 44
Summary 45
Chapter 5: Kismet and Matinee 47
Introduction to Kismet 47
Hello world 48
Events 51
Actions 53
Conditions 55
Variables 56
Subsequences 57
Matinee 58
Director 59
Summary 62
Chapter 6: AI Navigation, Pathing, and Enemy Setup 63
Pylons and navigation meshes 63
Path Nodes 67
Enemies 69
Spawning enemies 69
Enemy movement 72
Combat 74
Gameplay 75
Summary 82
Chapter 7: Physics 83
Fractured static meshes 84
Basic physics actors 88
Complex physics actors/ragdolls 90
Other physics actors 92
Physics Volume 93
Force and Impulse actors 94
Summary 95
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Chapter 8: Sounds 97
Sound cues versus sound wave data 98
Types of sound actors 98
Using sound cues 99
Ambient sound 99
Ambient sound movable 99
Using sound wave data 100
Ambient sound simple 101
Ambient sound non loop 101
Ambient sound non looping toggleable 101
Ambient sound simple toggleable 101
Playing sounds in Kismet 102
Playing sounds in Matinee 102
Sound Cue Editor 103
Summary 108
Chapter 9: Materials 109
Importing a texture 110
Material Editor 110
Constants 114
Coordinates 114
Math 114
Parameter 115
Texture 115
WorldPosOffset 115
Decal materials 116
Summary 116
Chapter 10: Characters and Animation 117
Anim Set Editor 118
Sockets and the Socket Manager 119
Animation Notifies 121
Anim Trees 125
Animating placed skeletal meshes 126
Animating in Matinee 127
Summary 129
Appendix : Glossary of Terms 131