Unreal Development Kit Game Design Cookbook

Table of Contents

Unreal Development Kit Game Design Cookbook

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Heads Up—UDK Interface Essentials

Introduction

Installing UDK and folder structure

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Folder structure and updating UDK

How to do it...

See also

What content comes with UDK?

How to do it...

There's more...

Binaries

How to do it...

See also

Beginning, building, and testing a new level

How to do it...

Deciding on your preferences

Getting ready

How to do it...

UI survival steps

How to do it...

Navigating the Content Browser

How it works...

There's more...

Right-clicking is the way to go!

See also

Accessing assets in the Content Browser

How to do it...

Examining the assets belonging to a plant model

Accessing materials used by a model

Creating and managing packages

Getting ready

How to do it...

Importing your own content

How to do it...

There's more...

How to open an external package

Copying and pasting content between scenes

Cooking a map in Unreal Frontend

Getting ready

How to do it...

Mobile device emulation

How to do it...

Kismet debugging

Getting ready

How to do it...

2. Notes From an Unreal World—Constructing Game World Elements

Introduction

How to handle BSP geometry

Getting ready

How to do it...

Building a hollow room

How to do it...

Adjusting surface properties of BSP

How to do it...

Generating volume from the BSP brush

How to do it...

See also

Handling StaticMesh actors in the scene

How to do it...

There's more...

Rigid Bodies in action!

Setting collision in the Static Mesh Editor

How to do it...

There's more...

Changing the Material on a StaticMesh

Visibility in the scene of StaticMesh actors

Creating Terrain, Deco Layers, and Material Layers

How to do it...

There's more...

Can I export a Terrain Heightmap to use in a Landscape?

Creating a Landscape

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

What about creating and importing heightmaps?

Scattering meshes on a Landscape using the Foliage tool

Getting ready

How to do it...

Creating a steamy plume in Cascade

How to do it...

See also

3. It Lives!—Character Setup and Animation

Introduction

Installing ActorX and exporting skeletal animation

Getting ready

How to do it...

Importing SkeletalMesh content into UDK

How to do it...

There's more...

Morph targets and .FBX importing

How to do it...

Setting up sockets

Getting ready

How to do it...

Attachments to SkeletalMeshes without using sockets

How to do it...

Setting up a custom AnimTree

How to do it...

How it works...

Defining animations in your AnimTree

How to do it...

Configuring your character to use your AnimTree

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

How to use a single bone control chain to correct an offset crouch animation

Getting ready

How to do it...

Setting up a physics asset using PhAT

Getting ready

How to do it...

See also

Adding limits to physics asset joint rotations

How to do it...

Adding a physics-driven tail to a key framed SkeletalMesh

How to do it...

Enabling the head to face in a given direction for tracking purposes

Getting ready

How to do it...

Setting a LookAt target for head rotation in code

How to do it…

Setting morph weights in code

Getting ready

How to do it...

Calling up SkeletalMesh animation using Matinee

Getting ready

How to do it...

Associating sounds with character moves in Matinee

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Sound for non-Matinee controlled animation

How to do it...

See also

4. Got Your Wires Crossed?—Visual Scripting of Gameplay in Kismet

Introduction

Kismet UI essentials

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works

Creating a simple enemy Bot

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works

Event-based movement of scene objects in Matinee

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works

See also

Trace actions in a shooting situation

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works

Revealing and hiding scene actors during gameplay

Getting ready

How to do it...

Producing sounds through Kismet

Getting ready

How to do it...

Using Take Damage events to produce explosions

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works

Understanding the usage of Named Variables

Getting ready

How to do it...

Tidying up Kismet networks using Sub-sequences

Getting ready

How to do it...

Tidying up Kismet networks using Remote Events

How to do it...

Toggling Materials through Kismet

Getting ready

How to do it...

Toggling lights through Kismet

Getting ready

How to do it...

Animating PointLights in Matinee to mimic texture animation

Getting ready

How to do it...

Making a comparison following a countdown

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works

Using Integer Counter to count enemy deaths

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works

Controlling node flow using a Gate action

Getting ready

How to do it...

Making Bots follow a path

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works

5. It Is Your Destiny!—Scripting Complex Gameplay Flow in Kismet

Prefabs including Kismet references

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works

There's more...

Editing a Prefab

How to do it...

See also

Swapping control of a Bot using Possess Pawn

Getting ready

How to do it...

Ways to stop a recurring loop

Getting ready

How to do it...

Setting up cinematic cameras

Getting ready

How to do it...

Animating cinematic cameras

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works

See also

Obtaining a trigger event off a RigidBody

How to do it...

How it works

Creating a firing pattern based puzzle

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Allowing the player to pick up, carry, and place an object

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works

Exploring 'following' and 'attracting' behaviors

Getting ready

How to do it...

See also

Creating a regenerative health shield

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works

See also

Creating a per-session checkpoint series

Getting ready

How to do it...

See also

6. Under The Hood—Configuration and Handy Tweaks for UDK

Groundwork for adjusting configuration defaults

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Consider a version control software for editing UDK content

Enabling the remote control for game inspection

How to do it...

How it works...

Changing the Play in Editor view resolution

How to do it...

Removing the loading hints and similar articles

How to do it...

See Also

Editing DefaultEngineUDK to allow 4096x4096 texture compression

Getting ready

How to do it...

Setting the preview player size reference object

Getting ready

How to do it...

Binding a keyboard shortcut to a player action

Getting ready

How to do it...

Adjusting player speed

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Setting variable speed animations in the AnimTree

See also

Creating your own Kismet node for speed

How to do it...

Changing the default player sounds

Getting ready

How to do it...

See Also

Replacing the HUD

How to do it...

DrawText and GameType concerns

Getting ready

How to do it...

Handling level content streaming

Getting ready

How to do it...

Spawning objects from a hit impact

How to do it...

How it works.

See also

7. Hi, I'm Eye Candy!—Ways to Create and Use Particle Effects

Introduction

Editing the color graph of a particle over time

How to do it...

How it works...

Animating particles using SubUV charts

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Adding one particle's movement to another

How to do it...

How it works...

Making collision detection work for particles

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Killing the particles

Controlling sort order for translucent Materials

Getting ready

How to do it...

Making animated textures using particle systems

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Making trails with AnimTrail TypeData

How to do it...

Assigning Level Of Detail (LOD) to a particle system

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Leaving a bloody trail

Getting Ready

How to do it...

How it works...

8. Then There Was Light!—Manipulating Level Light and Shadows

Introduction

Emissive lighting

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Comparison of static and dynamic lighting

Getting ready

How to do it...

Light exclusivity using channels and levels

How to do it...

There's more...

Light exclusivity using levels

Adjusting shadows through light environments

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Distance field shadows

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works

Penumbras and hotspots

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Dominant light shadow penumbra

Controlling hotspots

Accessing the main PostProcessChain

How to do it...

There's more...

MaterialEffects in the PostProcessChain

Ambient occlusion

Getting ready

How to do it...

Depth of field

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Animating DOF with a Modify Property switching series

Ensuring shadows work with translucent or alpha based materials

How to do it...

How it works...

Enabling and controlling light shafts

See also

Enhancing sunrays using lens flares

Getting ready

How to do it...

See also

Creating caustics using projected imagery

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

A forum example

Translucent colored glass

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

9. The Devil Is In The Details!—Making the Most of Materials

Introduction

Animating a Material Instance Constant in Kismet

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Animating a value in a Material Instance Constant in Matinee

Creating an animated RGB color shift

Forcing a mesh to always face the camera

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works

A cloth-like effect using WorldPositionOffset

How to do it...

Creating murky liquid

Getting ready

How to do it...

Creating a scanning effect

How to do it...

Quick glass

How to do it...

Creating transitions between Materials

How to do it...

See also

Static Cubemap creation and real-time reflection

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Image based reflections and Material usage

Wet surface reflections with dynamic actors

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Panoramic reflected environment textures

Making a holographic effect using Bump Offset

Getting ready

How to do it...

Interactive Foliage Actors

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Bobbing from the base

Getting varied hit impacts off models using a PhysicalMaterial

How to do it...

See also

10. The Way Of The Flash UI—Scaleform, CLIK, and Flash Interfaces

Introduction

Setting yourself up to work with Scaleform

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Adding new CLIK Objects to your library

See also

Working with images to skin a button

Getting ready

How to do it...

Cursor design and script for cursors

How to do it...

Importing SWF content to UDK

How to do it...

Placing an SWF on a BSP using Render to Texture

How to do it...

Additional content

Index

Unreal Development Kit Game Design Cookbook

Unreal Development Kit Game Design Cookbook

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Credits

Authors

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Reviewers

Pralie Dutzel

Daniel G. Haddad

Matt Lefevere

Michael S. Prinke

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About the Authors

Tom grew up in New Zealand. He is a lecturer in design and also works as an artist. He has picked up UDK over the last few years, having worked previously as a 3D artist on games using 3ds Max and Maya. You can learn more about his work at www.tomofnz.com.

I'd like to thank Mike Prinke for his contribution to the last chapter on Scaleform, for the programming, and for the reviews. For getting this book done, I owe a lot to the kindness and patience of Cindy Devina for keeping me going during my first book commission. I'd also like to tip my hat to the members of the UDK forum, particularly those who helped me with particular problems, including slowJusko, Adam Jaggers, EFF, Xendance, Blade[UG], silsin, John J and Matt Doyle. Thanks also to Hywel Thomas (http://www.3dality.co.uk/) and Ryan Pelcz: (http://pelcz.squarespace.com/ for their very helpful UnrealScript snippets. I'd also like to thank Wilson D'souza and Aaron Rosario for smart and cogent development guidance and support.

Mike Prinke is an MFA graduate student in SCAD's interactive design and game development program. During his studies, he has assisted many projects and works with a wide variety of tools, with special emphasis on Unreal, Kismet, UnrealScript, and Scaleform/Flash, and he is also conducting his MFA thesis on choice-driven narrative in games.

I want to give great thanks to Aram Cookson, without whom I would not have been equipped to work on this book. I also want to thank Timothy Valuato, who showed me how cool it can be to teach.

About the Reviewers

Pralie is currently a game and level design student and independent game developer. She has been studying both game and level design extensively for the past two years, and more recently became an indie developer at her own studio, Katastrophe Games. Although she has only been working in the Unreal Development Kit for almost two years, she has quickly become proficient and now offers guidance to fellow UDK users. On her blog and in her UDK workshop videos, she explains her level design process and offers advice to other students, indies, and anyone working in UDK.

After graduating with a Bachelor in Computer Science, Daniel decided to work on games independently. He started his career by working on several mods for The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion game. Shortly after that, he became part of the Ultima Return team and contributed to writing Ultima systems into the Neverwinter Nights 2 engine. At around the same time he decided to get cracking with the newly released UDK and he has been using it ever since. With the release of UDK-Mobile, Daniel has a couple of projects in the works that are sure to be a treat. He also recently won the local Microsoft Imagine Cup competition and third place in the world final People's Choice awards with a game he developed called Tale of a Tree Wisp.

I would like to thank Mr. Wilson D'souza and Ms. Leena Purkait for allowing me to do this, and especially so for their patience while I was too busy with the Imagine Cup World Finals.

Matt Lefevere is a level designer with experience working with each generation of the Unreal Engine. He is active in the Unreal community working as a level designer and scripter on UDK games such as Angels Fall First: Planetstorm and Tactical Assault. His portfolio is located at http://mattlefevere.daportfolio.com/. Matt is a graduate of George Mason University where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Management. He is a lifelong musician, with experience performing percussion, piano, and guitar.

Kyle Umbenhower is a level designer at the Guildhall at SMU, graduating in December of 2011. He worked as a designer and scripter for Barking Lizard Technologies, on an unannounced iPhone game. You can see Kyle's work at www.umbygames.com.

I would like to thank my family and my girlfriend Lynea for their support during this project.

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Preface

Unreal Development Kit Game Design Cookbook explores how real-time environments are built. Key features of UDK are examined—assets, animation, light, materials, game controls, user interface, special effects, and interactivity—with the objective to make UDK more technically accessible so that users can transcend technique and focus on their creative design process. The book has well prepared recipes for level designers and artists of all levels. It covers core design tools and processes in the editor, particularly setting up characters, UI approaches, configuration, and scripting gameplay. It is a technical guide that allows game artists to go beyond just creating assets, based upon creative, extensive demonstrations.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Heads Up—UDK Interface Essentials will get you started with UDK, discussing some very easy to follow procedures, glancing over the interface, UI conventions, level building, and even testing the level in PC or iOS, and packaging it to send it out into the world.

Chapter 2, Notes From an Unreal World—Constructing Game World Elements will discuss some of UDK's more important content generation principles.

Chapter 3, It Lives!—Character Setup and Animation shows you how to make your character's movements more life-like using ActorX and FBX, allowing you to create fully customized, animated character performances.

Chapter 4, Got Your Wires Crossed?—Visual Scripting of Gameplay in Kismet deals with Kismet, its UI, and all the wild scenarios that level designers can use to allow actors and objects to act and react in their scene with functionality driven by events and actions.

Chapter 5, It Is Your Destiny!—Scripting Complex Gameplay Flow in Kismet is more about Kismet, showing you how to do more with gameplay such as casting spells, interacting with Bots, and creating level checkpoints.

Chapter 6, Under The Hood—Configuration and Handy Tweaks for UDK contains lessons in adjusting configuration, scripts, and even supplying additional actors and Kismet actions.

Chapter 7, Hi, I'm Eye Candy!—Ways to Create and Use Particle Effects will teach you about the VFX editor Cascade and its myriad of features. You will learn how to use Emitters and Particles to enhance the artwork in your level.

Chapter 8, Then There Was Light!—Manipulating Level Light and Shadows will cover Post Process and everything to do with lighting, shadows, and how they can bring your environments to life.

Chapter 9, The Devil Is In the Details!—Making the Most of Materials unravels some of the Material Editor's deepest, darkest secrets, showing you how to create slick surfaces which radiate attention to detail.

Chapter 10, The Way Of The Flash UI—Scaleform, CLIK, and Flash Interfaces discusses ways to use Flash animation and more to make your UI more vibrant.

More on CLIK, ActionScript, dialog boxes, and menu functionality, as well as creating an animated day-to-night transition is available as a free download at: http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/1802EXP_Unreal_Development_Kit_Game_Design_Cookbook_Bonus_Recipes.pdf.

A PDF file containing colored screenshots used in this book is available for download at http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/1802EXP_Unreal_Development_Kit_Game_Design_Cookbook_ColoredImages.pdf.

What you need for this book

Windows (XP, Vista, or Windows 7)

UDK (http://www.udk.com/download)

Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 or a similar 3D editing application

Adobe Photoshop CS5 or a similar image processing application

ConText (http://contexteditor.org/)—a free text editor with UnrealScript template, or a similar coding oriented text editing application

Vue 9.5 PLE (http://www.e-onsoftware.com/try/vue_9_ple/)—Personal Learning Edition of a popular terrain generation tool

Heightmap Conversion Software 2 (http://www.lilchips.com/hmcs2.asp)—a free utility that processes heightmap data

Caustics Generator (http://www.dualheights.se/caustics/)—a free utility which creates animation of caustic light patterns

Contact Sheet X (http://csx.riaforge.org/)—a free add on for Photoshop to process frames into a single tiling image

Camstudio 2 (http://camstudio.org/)—a free utility for PC screen video capture, or a similar screen recording application

Who this book is for

This book is meant for game artists who are getting used to UDK but may feel the need for guidance on matters of implementation. It also targets brave beginners who are struggling to find an all in one package for getting started with UDK, and want a reference ready at hand. Level designers can use this book to gauge their understanding of the editor, check for specific problems, and discover gems they may not have come across before.

Conventions

In this book, in an effort to provide a pleasant user experience, we've established a layout style that distinguishes between different kinds of information in UDK. This section provides examples of these styles and explains their meaning.

There is not a lot of code in this book, only a bare minimum of short excerpts required to set up some assets. Where lines of code occur in the text body, they are shown as follows: The DefaultProperties entry HUDType=class'MyGame.MyHud' sets the class from which the game calls its HUD instructions.

A block of code is set as follows:

class MyGame extends UDKGame

        config(MyGame);

DefaultProperties

{

    HUDType=class'MyGame.MyHUD'

//    bUseClassicHUD=true

// This code sample cannot use the line above as it does not extend from UTGame but from UDKGame...

}

Lines that bear upon the current discussion are shown in bold within the block of code. In this book you will not need to make up any code, and the samples can be typed as they appear in the text, without having to worry about line breaks.

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

C:\UDK\~\UDKGame\Binaries\Win64>UDKGame.exe gfximport Yourfolder\Mouse.SWF Yourfolder\Button.SWF

If you want to learn more about writing UnrealScript, I highly recommend the new Packt book by Rachel Cordone, Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript: Beginner's Guide. available at http://www.packtpub.com/unreal-development-kit-game-programming-with-unrealscript-beginners-guide/book/.

Besides the fact that you can check it out, the above website link demonstrates how this book presents URLs that you can follow for more information. Paths to your computer's folders are shown as: C:\UDK\~\UDKGame\Content\Maps\. File names mentioned in isolation are shown in italics, like this: UTGame.UC.

Likewise, where you are required to enter text in a text field, or assign a name to a file or an asset this will be shown as follows: "For the current value, type Ending. Here you would type Ending. Frequently you are asked to search out an asset already given a unique name; its name is also shown in italics, like this: Packt.Texture.SkyDome_Night.

New terms and important words are shown in bold, as are words that help you navigate menus, dialog boxes, and editor-defined properties of objects. Here's an example: "Go to View | World Properties and expand the Game Type section and click on MyGame in the roll-out." Here you can distinguish the menu commands from the user entry MyGame.

UDK features many special nodes or modules which we've chosen to highlight amongst the many menu entries, properties and text fields that go along with them. These include event, action and variable types in Kismet, module types in Cascade, node types in the Material Editor, and node types in the AnimTree Editor. Except where they occur in menu navigation instructions, which are always in bold, nodes are shown as follows: Level Loaded event. Connectors belonging to a node are shown in bold: Loaded and Visible.

Compare the text formatting against the next image, where it is marked with floating arrows (as is typical with many images in the book). The action is at the top, and its property is in the dialog underneath:

"The Play Sound action in Kismet has a property called Play Sound, which is set to None by default."

The next image, similarly, shows Material Editor nodes. The nodes are at the top and the properties are below.

In the Panner node's Properties, set the Speed X value to 2.0 to make the texture that it feeds slide sideways.

The next example deals with the Cascade Editor, used for creating particle effects:

Highlight the Color Over Life module to expose its properties. Currently this module is disabled.

Key strokes and mouse clicks are shown as follows: "Hold Ctrl + LMB and drag". Sometimes a contraction like Alt-drag is used to shorten some instructions, such as "hold Alt + LMB and drag". In some cases we say to press LMB (for Left Mouse Button) and RMB (for Right Mouse Button), but quite often we simply say click or right-click.

Wherever possible, we've included icons within the text to help direct you to tools in the UI. These are formatted as in the example: "The icon [ ] is for Use Selected Object in the Content Browser". Quite often I've referred to this particular icon as the Assign icon, to save space. Also to save space I have often called a Connector a 'nub', as others do.

Note

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Tip

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Chapter 1. Heads Up—UDK Interface Essentials

This chapter is for people who are starting out with the Unreal Development Kit (UDK). It walks you through some very easy procedures such as obtaining and installing UDK, glancing over the interface, UI conventions, level building, and even sending the level off to iOS emulation to play.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

Installing UDK and folder structure

What content comes with UDK