Unreal Development Kit 3: Beginners Guide电子书

Unreal Development Kit 3

Table of Contents

Unreal Development Kit 3

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Time for action – heading

What just happened?

Pop quiz – heading

Have a go hero – heading

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Level Design HQ

Time for action – UDK download and installation

UDK folder structure

Time for action – launching the editor

Autosave

Content browser

What just happened?

Time for action – movement and rotation

Navigation

UDK

WASD key navigation

MAYA users

What just happened?

BSP

Why use BSP?

Can I use static meshes to create my map without using BSP?

Dominance of static meshes

Brushes only, no static meshes

Brushes and static meshes

Time for action – using BSP brushes and static meshes

Additive and subtractive

Additive

Subtractive

Unreal scale and proportions

Grid snapping

Viewport options

What just happened?

Have a go hero – wireframe brush

Pop quiz

Summary

2. Hello UDK

Your first map

Time for action – setup, where to save the file, what to name it

What just happened?

Why CSG?

Time for action – the builder brush and our first cube

Subtractive

Brush Order

What just happened?

Time for action – geometry editing tool

What just happened?

Time for action – building our first room

What just happened?

Have a go hero – second floor

Time for action – placing lights and a player start

What just happened?

Have a go hero – advanced lighting

Time for action – creating a hallway and a second room

What just happened?

Time for action – applying materials to CSG surfaces

Surface Properties

What just happened?

Have a go hero – adding more elements to your level

Time for action – test map and add bots

What just happened?

Have a go hero – content browser

Have a go hero – bot navigation

Pop quiz

Summary

3. Applying Lighting Effects

Directional lights

Point lights

Spotlights

Skylights

Time for action – different types of light

Point lights

Spotlights

Directional lights

Skylights

What just happened?

Time for action – lightmaps

What just happened?

Time for action – adjusting lightmaps on CSG surfaces

What just happened?

Have a go hero – reduce lightmap resolution on surfaces

Time for action – lightmaps on static meshes

What just happened?

Have a go hero – creating lightmaps for custom static meshes

Pop quiz

Summary

4. Battling the Elements

Time for action – the basics

Time for action – add a new particle emitter

What just happened?

Time for action – the smoke example

What just happened?

Time for action – adding height fog

Setting parameters

Uses

Atmospheric haze

Localized fog

Dense haze

What just happened?

Have a go hero – alternatives to height fog

Time for action – creating the surface

What just happened?

Time for action – water volumes

What just happened?

Time for action – underwater

What just happened?

Have a go hero – animated cloud shadows

Pop quiz

Summary

5. Movement with Movers

Time for action – a basic elevator/door

What just happened?

Time for action – elevators UT style

What just happened?

Time for action – a continuously looping animation

What just happened?

Time for action – a continuously rotating animation

What just happened?

Time for action – attaching something

What just happened?

Have a go hero – triggering sounds

Pop quiz

Summary

6. Terrain

Time for action – your first terrain

What just happened?

Time for action – applying materials

What just happened?

Have a go hero – deco layers

Time for action – light mapping

What just happened?

Have a go hero – foliage layers

Pop quiz

Summary

7. Adding Gameplay Elements into your Map

Adding gameplay elements

Time for action – naming your map

What just happened?

Time for action – adding a player start

What just happened?

Time for action – play in editor

What just happened?

Time for action – placing pickups

What just happened?

Time for action – placing weapons

What just happened?

Time for action – placing jump pads

What just happened?

Time for action – adding other game object types

What just happened?

Have a go hero – adding music to your map

Bot pathing

Time for action – adding path nodes

What just happened?

Pop quiz

Summary

8. Complex Event Sequences

Time for action – a simple sequence

What just happened?

Have a go hero – preview screenshot

Time for action – basic UIScene

What just happened?

Time for action – basic cut scene

What just happened?

Summary

9. Materials

What is a material?

Time for action – creating a new material

What just happened?

Time for action – adding textures to a material

What just happened?

Time for action – creating a shiny metal surface

What just happened?

Time for action – adding a normal map

What just happened?

Time for action – seeing your material in the world

What just happened?

Time for action – giving a perfect texture to your material

What just happened?

Time for action – color specular highlight

What just happened?

Time for action – adding a tint to the diffuse color

What just happened?

Time for action – making your material easy to read

What just happened?

Summary

Pop Quiz Answers

Chapter 1

Level Design HQ

Chapter 2

Hello UDK

Chapter 3

Applying Lighting Effects

Chapter 4

Battling the Elements

Chapter 5

Movement with Movers

Chapter 6

Terrain

Chapter 7

Adding Gameplay Elements into your Map

Index