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Unreal Development Kit Game Design Cookbook

You're reading from   Unreal Development Kit Game Design Cookbook Over 100 recipes to accelerate the process of learning game design with UDK book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849691802
Length 544 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Unreal Development Kit Game Design Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Heads Up—UDK Interface Essentials 2. Notes From an Unreal World—Constructing Game World Elements FREE CHAPTER 3. It Lives!—Character Setup and Animation 4. Got Your Wires Crossed?—Visual Scripting of Gameplay in Kismet 5. It Is Your Destiny!—Scripting Complex Gameplay Flow in Kismet 6. Under The Hood—Configuration and Handy Tweaks for UDK 7. Hi, I'm Eye Candy!—Ways to Create and Use Particle Effects 8. Then There Was Light!—Manipulating Level Light and Shadows 9. The Devil Is In The Details!—Making the Most of Materials 10. The Way Of The Flash UI—Scaleform, CLIK, and Flash Interfaces Index

Setting yourself up to work with Scaleform


Scaleform does not require Adobe Flash, but that is the working environment for building UI content that is generally accepted and that Epic endorses through their documentation (http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/Scaleform.html#Setting up Adobe Flash Environment). It is best to work with a later version such as CS5, but CS4 also works. ActionScript 2 is easier to use, but ActionScript 3 is also supported, with increasing documentation (although none of the examples in this book depend on it). Autodesk provides lessons on using Scaleform within UDK: http://gameware.autodesk.com/scaleform/support/documentation.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes you already have Adobe Flash CS5 working. If you don't have it, and don't want to own it, you could try one of several free routes (such as using Vectorian Giotto and FlashDevelop).

How to do it...

Setting up Scaleform in Flash

  1. In Flash, open a new .FLA, set to ActionScript2. In the menu Help | Manage Extensions click...

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