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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

Why CSG?


We're going to use CSG geometry to rough out our level. It's the in-editor 3D modeling tool. While you could rough out the level in a 3D application such as Maya, Max, or even AutoCad, CSG gives you an incredibly fast turnaround when you begin working out the gameplay of your level. It's much easier than going back-and-forth between the different software packages.

That said, CSG isn't good for anything very detailed. It's expensive, it's hard to work with, and is prone to errors if the geometry gets too complicated. For this reason, it's great for prototyping since you don't want to add much detail in the early stages. It's also suitable for some simple geometry in the final level, as you can see in some of the epic's maps.

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