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Unreal Development Kit Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Unreal Development Kit Beginner's Guide A fun, quick, step by step guide to level design and creating your own game world.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849690522
Length 244 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Richard Moore Richard Moore
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Unreal Development Kit 3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
1. Level Design HQ 2. Hello UDK FREE CHAPTER 3. Applying Lighting Effects 4. Battling the Elements 5. Movement with Movers 6. Terrain 7. Adding Gameplay Elements into your Map 8. Complex Event Sequences 9. Materials Index

Time for action – test map and add bots


I'll cover this in much more depth later, but it would be fun at this point to add some bots to the level. Make sure your map name starts with DM- and save your work. In the editor, click the Build All button to the right of Build Lighting.

Save your game and run it. Open up the console by pressing Tab, and type addbots 1. A bot should appear, and you can kill it.

To add more bots, add more player start nodes, rebuild all, run the level, and type addbots [number] in the console. Have fun with it. Try adding some additional rooms, and make a more interesting layout. See if you can make ramps to rooms at different heights, or raised platforms inside the room.

What just happened?

So we have now tested our map with bots and have an idea of what our map will play like with these two rooms and a hallway.

Have a go hero – content browser

So we know how to add a player start, but what else can we add to our level. Open up the content browser and see if you can add...

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