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Unreal Development Kit

The document provides an overview of the Unreal Development Kit (UDK) game engine. It describes the main components of UDK, including the graphics, sound, physics engines and UnrealScript interpreter. It explains how these components interact through the engine core. It also outlines the basic Unreal game loop of initialization, input handling, updating and event control. Finally, it describes the different types of game assets that can be created and imported into UDK such as textures, sounds, animations and maps.

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Unreal Development Kit

The document provides an overview of the Unreal Development Kit (UDK) game engine. It describes the main components of UDK, including the graphics, sound, physics engines and UnrealScript interpreter. It explains how these components interact through the engine core. It also outlines the basic Unreal game loop of initialization, input handling, updating and event control. Finally, it describes the different types of game assets that can be created and imported into UDK such as textures, sounds, animations and maps.

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Unreal Basics

CIS 488/588
Bruce R. Maxim
UM-Dearborn
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Resources
Unreal Development Kit
The Buzz3D website
http://www.3dbuzz.com
UDK Game Development
http://www.delmarlearning.com/companions
/index.asp?isbn=1435460189
Unreal Developer Network website
http://www.unrealengine.com/en/udk/
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UDK Engine
UDK is an open source version of the
open-ended Unreal3 system that can
be used for many real-time projects
Unreal is good for games, but has also
been used for industrial visualization
(e.g. interactive architectural flythrough)

Unreal Components

Graphics Engine
Sound Engine
Physics Engine (Karma)
Input Manager
Network Infrastructure (client/server)
Kismet Visual Programing
UnrealScript Inteprerter
UnrealScript is object oriented with a syntax
similar to C++
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Unreal Component Interaction


Graphics Engine

Engine Core

Sound Engine
Physics Engine

UnrealScript
Interpreter
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Unreal Game Loop


Initialization
Events
Game Loop Start
Check for Input

Fire Gun
Play Sound
Move Player

Event Control
Update
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Unreal Process - 1
Game Initialization (starting UDK)
Core engine initializes all system components
Components begin to send info back to core for
synchronization
Game ready for user input

Game Launch (starting a level)


Map is loaded with all its game assets and
properties
Each assets info sent to Unreal component
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Unreal Process - 2
Gameplay (artistic use of items)
Each component sends events and tasks to the
message queue
Unreal game loop runs with highest priority
message tasks performed first

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Game Assets - 1
Stored in packages (libraries). Each
package type is stored in its own folder.
Textures packages (.utx)
Textures used to color object surfaces
come from tools like Photoshop or Upaint,
could come from digital photographs or
scanner
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Game Assets - 2
Sound packages
Unreal supports .wav files often created
using programs like SoundForge, used for
sound effects

Music Packages
Unreal supports .ogg files create by
programs like Cakewalk
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Game Assets - 3
Static mesh (.upk)
Highly optimized polygonal models from an
external 3D package like Maya or 3ds max
(you need the right plug-in to import them
into Unreal), used for physical details, best
to use multiple copies rather than different
meshes (for performance)

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Game Assets - 4
Animation package (.upk)
Store all animated assets (i.e. characters,
vehicles, weapons), each elements has
two component (texture model and
animations) to allow mixing and reuse,
created using Maya

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Game Assets - 5
Map (.upk)
Not a package, a map is a collection of
assets used to define a complete game
level, created using UnrealEd

UCC
Unreal execution environment is a
command-line program that allows lowlevel package editing and compilation of
Unreal Script programs (.u)
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