Mastering Unreal Technology Advanced Level Design Concepts With Unreal Engine 3

Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume II: Advanced Level Design Concepts with Unreal Engine 3 is your start-to-finish guide to state-of-the-art Unreal Tournament 3 modding and level design. Here’s everything you need to know to take your game design skills to the next level, creating content with breakthrough depth and interactivity! Your authors aren’t just the world’s #1 Unreal game development trainers: They’ve built the training mods that shipped with Unreal Tournament. Now, working with the full cooperation of Unreal Engine 3’s creators, Epic Games, they introduce innovative, pro-quality techniques you’ll find nowhere else: outstanding solutions for everything from particle effects to physics, materials to cinematics. Packed with tips, hands-on tutorials, and expert insight, Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume II will help you take Unreal Tournament 3 and Unreal Engine 3 to the limit...and then blow right by it! You’ll find expert tips on Creating advanced materials that leverage the full power of UnrealEd’s Material Editor Bringing levels to life with objects affected by gravity, collisions, and player influence Creating fire, smoke, sparks, and more with Unreal Engine 3’s particle effects system Building custom user interfaces, including Heads-Up Displays (HUDs) that update constantly Using SoundCues to mix, modulate, crossfade, and attenuate sounds Generating real-time camera-based effects, including depth of field, motion blur, and color adjustment Using post process effects to quickly transform a scene’s look and feel without changing existing materials or textures Animating characters and vehicles that move with unprecedented realism Creating in-game cinematics that develop your characters and move your story forward

Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume I: Introduction to Level Design with Unreal Engine 3 is your start-to-finish guide to modding and level design with the world’s hottest new gaming engine: Unreal Engine 3. Here’s everything you need to know to jumpstart your skills and create stunning new content and games for consoles and PCs alike! Your authors aren’t just the world’s #1 Unreal game development trainers: They’ve even built the training modules that shipped with Unreal Tournament 3: Limited Collector’s Edition. Now, working with the full cooperation of Unreal Engine 3’s creators, Epic Games, they introduce every facet of game development—from simple level creation to materials, lighting, and terrain...even advanced level optimization and streaming! Packed with tips, hands-on tutorials, and expert techniques, Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume I is all you need to create levels that look spectacular and work brilliantly...levels that gamers just can’t stop playing! You’ll find expert tips on Understanding the game development process from start to finish Planning projects for greater efficiency, faster delivery, and better quality Crafting worlds with stunning beauty and clarity Bringing amazing realism to characters, objects, and props Making the most of Unreal Engine 3’s massively upgraded lighting system Scripting complex gameplay quickly and easily with Unreal Kismet Building animated game assets with Unreal Matinee Testing game performance during live gameplay Optimizing levels by improving the interaction between lights and surfaces Using advanced level streaming to create vast, rich, highly playable levels Winner of the Front Line Award for best game development book of 2009!

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume II: Advanced Level Design Concepts with Unreal Engine 3 is your start-to-finish guide to state-of-the-art Unreal Tournament 3 modding and level design. Here's everything you need to know to take your game design skills to the next level, creating content with breakthrough depth and interactivity! Your authors aren't just the world's #1 Unreal game development trainers: They've built the training mods that shipped with Unr.

Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume III: Introduction to UnrealScript with Unreal Engine 3helps game developers take full advantage of UnrealScript to build powerful new games, and shows modders how to use UnrealScript to extend existing games in ways their creators never imagined. The only start-to-finish UnrealScript tutorial, it's authored by the world's leading Unreal Engine game development trainers, in close collaboration with Epic Games, the creator of Unreal Engine. The authors teach through real-world examples and sample code, not oversimplified theoretical exercises. Their start-to-finish coverage includes: " Understanding what UnrealScript can do in new games, and how it can be used to mod existing games " Working with UnrealScript classes, variables, operators, expressions, functions, control statements, and loops " Making the most of the UnrealScript preprocessor " Working with advanced UnrealScript features, including iterators, states, delegates, interfaces, and replication " Applying object-oriented techniques in the UnrealScript environment For professional game designers, independent modders, and students seeking a route into the game development industry,Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume III: Introduction to UnrealScript with Unreal Engine 3will be simply indispensable.

Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume I: Introduction to Level Design with Unreal Engine 3 is your start-to-finish guide to modding and level design with the world's hottest new gaming engine: Unreal Engine 3. Here's everything you need to know to jumpstart your skills and create stunning new content and games for consoles and PCs alike! Your authors aren't just the world's #1 Unreal game development trainers: They've even built the training modules that shipped with Unreal Tournament 3: Limited Collector's Edition. Now, working with the full cooperation of Unreal Engine 3's creators, Epic Games, they introduce every facet of game development-from simple level creation to materials, lighting, and terrain ... even advanced level optimization and streaming! Packed with tips, hands-on tutorials, and expert techniques, Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume I is all you need to create levels that look spectacular and work brilliantly ... levels that gamers just can't stop playing! You'll find expert tips on * Understanding the game development process from start to finish * Planning projects for greater efficiency, faster delivery, and better quality * Crafting worlds with stunning beauty and clarity * Bringing amazing realism to characters, objects, and props * Making the most of Unreal Engine 3's massively upgraded lighting system * Scripting complex gameplay quickly and easily with Unreal Kismet * Building animated game assets with Unreal Matinee * Testing game performance during live gameplay * Optimizing levels by improving the interaction between lights and surfaces * Using advanced level streaming to create vast, rich, highly playable levelsWinner of the Front Line Award for best game development book of 2009!