Chapter 4. Got Your Wires Crossed?—Visual Scripting of Gameplay in Kismet

This chapter deals with Kismet, which enables level designers to provision the actors in their scene with functionality driven by events and actions. Our goal is to hone in on a few of the many interesting challenges Kismet provides, and some basic understanding of the UDK editing environment is assumed.

• Kismet UI essentials

• Creating a simple enemy Bot

• Event based movement of scene objects in Matinee

• Trace actions in a shooting situation

• Revealing and hiding scene actors during gameplay

• Producing sounds through Kismet

• Using Take Damage events to produce explosions

• Understanding the usage of Named Variables

• Tidying up Kismet networks using Sub-Sequences

• Tidying up Kismet networks using Remote Events

• Toggling Materials through Kismet

• Toggling lights through Kismet

• Animating PointLights in Matinee to mimic texture animation

• Making a comparison following a countdown

• Using an Integer Counter to count enemy deaths

• Controlling node flow...