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Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript: Beginner's Guide

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Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2011

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849691925

Length 466 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

UnrealScript

Tools

Unreal

Concepts

Game Scripting

Author (1):

Rachel Cordone

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Project Setup and Test Environments FREE CHAPTER

2. Storing and Manipulating Data

3. Understanding the Class Tree

4. Making Custom Classes

5. Using Functions

6. Using States to Control Behavior

7. Working with Kismet

8. Creating Multiplayer Games

9. Debugging and Optimization

10. Odds and Ends

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Index

Casting

Another important principle in object-oriented programming in UnrealScript is typecasting, or casting for short. We know that when creating subclasses we can add functions or variables that don't exist in the parent class. We also know that when we have an actor variable that it can reference a subclass of that actor. So if we have a subclassed actor referenced in our variable, how do we use the variables or functions that are unique to that subclass?

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Authors (1)

Rachel Cordone

Rachel Cordone

Rachel Cordone is a game designer and programmer who has been working with the Unreal Engine since the 1990's. She has worked with various game and simulation companies since 2003 on everything from PC, console, mobile, to VR and AR projects. For the past decade, Rachel has offered remote contract programming services to training software development companies including Northrop Grumman and Parsons Brinkerhoff. On the side, she makes video games through her company, Stubborn Horse Studios. She also wrote the book Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript for Packt.

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