UDK Scaleform Menu Video Tutorial - Unreal University

Introduction to Scaleform for UI by Matthew Doyle is a UDK Scaleform menu video tutorial presentation on "Building your UDK UI" for 3D game artists, game level designers and game programmers. Watch the video for the presentation slides and complete video tutorial presentation on UDK Scaleform user interface design at Unreal University, Montreal International Games Summit MIGS 2011 for more details.

UDK Scaleform for Unreal Development Kit

• Scaleform is the leading Flash-based user interface (UI) middleware for the video game industry.
• Scaleform combines the performance of hardware accelerated 3D graphics technology with the proven productivity and workflow of Adobe Flash tools to help you rapidly create highly immersive 3D UI and casual game experiences.
• Scaleform uses hardware (GPU) acceleration and revolutionary patent pending tessellation process.

Scaleform Key Features

• Anti-aliased vector graphics
• High-quality dynamic font system
• Rich text support
• Masks for arbitrary-shape clipping
• Blend modes and filter effects
• 3D tilting and transformations
• Scale9Grid for resizable UI
• Multi-threaded back-end design
• Autodesk Scaleform CLIK (Component Lightweight Interface Kit) UI widgets

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Unreal University is an academic initiative sponsored by Epic Games in association with Autodesk. It offers professional, hands-on guidance to people interested in applying its award-winning Unreal Engine 3 (UE3) technology, including the Unreal Development Kit (UDK). Topics include level design best practices, mobile game development tricks and tips, and more. The sessions are free.

More than 900,000 3D video game developers have installed Epic Games' free edition of Unreal Engine 3 - the Unreal Development Kit or UDK. This 3D game engine powers independent games like "Save Our Sheep" and "The Dark Meadow" for iOS, and "Sanctum" and "Hawken" for PC. The UE3 feature set evolves continuously to prepare for the next generation of video games. Epic Games continues to release major new improvements and functionalities to the Unreal Development Kit, with several important features integrated recently. So check out and download the Unreal Engine 3 tools for free today.

Unreal University: Unreal Development Kit Overview

Unreal University: Unreal Development Kit Overview by James Tan and Markus Arvidsson is a presentation on UDK overview for game programmers, game level designers and 3D game artists. Watch the video for the presentation slides and complete video tutorial presentation on UDK overview at Montreal International Games Summit MIGS 2011 for more details.

UDK Overview

• Unreal Editor is a fully featured level editor which can build everything needed in a level.
• Content Browser is used to import content e.g. 3D models, textures, sounds, etc.
• Material Editor is a WYSIWYG visual editor used to create materials, create shaders, create master materials, material functions.
• Area lights, directional lights, point lights, spot lights and sky lights to add lights and shadows - static shadows and dynamic shadows, light functions.
• Kismet is a visual scripting language built on top of UnrealScript.
• Kismet Debugging is now supported in UDK.
• Landscape is the UDK advanced terrain toolset.
• Cascade Editor creates particle effects.
• Nvidia PhysX is the physics engine integrated into Unreal Development Kit.
• APEX is also integrated into UDK.
• Cloth simulation, constraints, rigid body physics, soft body physics, vehicles are all available.
• Networking and replication is built into UDK.
• Steam and GameCenter is built into UDK.

What kind of UDK games can you make?

• Side scrolling games
• Action RPG games e.g. Vida
• Racing games e.g. Unwheel 2
• Mech games e.g. Hawken
• Puzzle games e.g. The Ball, Qube
• Space combat games e.g. Angels Fall First

Get UDK Unreal Development Kit Download for FREE now!

Unreal University is an academic initiative sponsored by Epic Games in association with Autodesk. It offers professional, hands-on guidance to people interested in applying its award-winning Unreal Engine 3 (UE3) technology, including the Unreal Development Kit (UDK). Topics include level design best practices, mobile game development tricks and tips, and more. The sessions are free.

More than 900,000 3D video game developers have installed Epic Games' free edition of Unreal Engine 3 - the Unreal Development Kit or UDK. This 3D game engine powers independent games like "Save Our Sheep" and "The Dark Meadow" for iOS, and "Sanctum" and "Hawken" for PC. The UE3 feature set evolves continuously to prepare for the next generation of video games. Epic Games continues to release major new improvements and functionalities to the Unreal Development Kit, with several important features integrated recently. So check out and download the Unreal Engine 3 tools for free today.

Unreal University: Making Mobile RTS UDK Game

Unreal University: Making a Mobile RTS UDK Game by James Tan and Markus Arvidsson is a presentation on creating a real time strategy game for mobile iOS operating system on the Apple iPad 2 tablet computer. The mobile real-time strategy game is developed using the Unreal Development Kit or UDK. Here are some useful information from the presentation slides at Montreal International Games Summit MIGS 2011. Watch the Unreal Development Kit complete video tutorial presentation for more details.

Handling touch events

• Unreal Engine 3 allows you to receive, handle and discard touch events in UnrealScript.
• Touch events need to respond to things in a logical order: HUD, Actors, then World.
• Remember that touch events are always in screen space. You will have to transform these to world space yourself.

Screen Space to World Space

• Converting from screen space to world space is usually done using Deproject to find the world space origin and the world space direction.
• Deproject is available in Canvas and LocalPlayer. If you can, try to use Canvas as much as possible.
• Using world space origin and direction you can use a trace to find what actor the player is "touching".

Navigation mesh is good alternative technology to use instead of path nodes.

Providing appropriate feedback

• Sounds
• Particle effects
• HUD response

Download the source code for free at [to be updated udn.].

Get UDK Unreal Development Kit Download for FREE now!

Unreal University is an academic initiative sponsored by Epic Games in association with Autodesk. It offers professional, hands-on guidance to people interested in applying its award-winning Unreal Engine 3 (UE3) technology, including the Unreal Development Kit (UDK). Topics include level design best practices, mobile game development tricks and tips, and more. The sessions are free.

More than 900,000 3D video game developers have installed Epic Games' free edition of Unreal Engine 3 - the Unreal Development Kit or UDK. This 3D game engine powers independent games like "Save Our Sheep" and "The Dark Meadow" for iOS, and "Sanctum" and "Hawken" for PC. The UE3 feature set evolves continuously to prepare for the next generation of video games. Epic Games continues to release major new improvements and functionalities to the Unreal Development Kit, with several important features integrated recently. So check out and download the Unreal Engine 3 tools for free today.

Inside UDK Fall 2011 - Unreal Engine Development Kit

Inside UDK Fall 2011 - Unreal Engine Development Kit powered by Unreal Engine 3 technology, you will discover these awesome features for 3D video game development:

• Unreal Landscape Editor
• Unreal Foliage Editor
• Map lighting templates
• Material functions
• Simplygon mesh reduction
• Unreal Kismet debugger
• Movie capture from Matinee or in-game
• UDK on iOS
• Unified PC and mobile editor and Unreal frontend
• APEX clothing
• Performance optimizations
• Soft-edge motion blur and motion blur skinning
• FXAA and MLAA post-process anti-aliasing
• DX11 hair
• DX11 subsurface scattering
• DX11 tessellation and displacement
• DX11 deferred rendering with MSAA support
• DX11 image-based reflections

Unreal Development Kit UDK Royalty Setup

• Download - Create - Test - Play = FREE
• When you're ready to sell: $99
• No royalties until you make $50,000

Get UDK Unreal Development Kit Download for FREE now!

More than 900,000 3D video game developers have installed Epic Games' free edition of Unreal Engine 3 - the Unreal Development Kit or UDK. This 3D game engine powers independent games like "Save Our Sheep" and "The Dark Meadow" for iOS, and "Sanctum" and "Hawken" for PC. The UE3 feature set evolves continuously to prepare for the next generation of video games. Epic Games continues to release major new improvements and functionalities to the Unreal Development Kit, with several important features integrated recently. So check out and download the Unreal Engine 3 tools for free today.

Unreal Engine 3 Samaritan Real-Time Demo

This Unreal Engine 3 Samaritan real-time demo was shown and released at the Game Developers Conference 2011. It demonstrates what Epic Games wants to see in the next generation of 3D video games. The Unreal Development Kit or UDK has the features illustrated in this video. So game developers make use of these features available in the UDK now!