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Allar
03-27-2010, 01:07 PM
I've been posting a few links to my tutorial series I'm in the process of creating around the forums, but I thought it'd be nice to create a thread to get some feedback.

This project of mine started as a way to help out fellow students at my school, but I hope for it to grow into something larger.

I'm slowly in the process of breaking down Epic's code, figuring out how it works, and implementing modified code to work in the ways I need it to without extending base UT classes directly. When I started learning UnrealScript, I found little to no reference on how to get started and so I just began tearing through all of Epic's code, tweaking things, breaking things, and learning from my mistakes. While right now I'm only covering the very basics of how things work, I thought it might be helpful for people new to UnrealScript to have a breakdown of existing code along with a side-by-side of how to implement your own version of it. I'm new to tutorial making but have learned a lot about how to deliver information, so please excuse some of the lengthly beginning tutorials as I have worked my way to try and produce better tutorials with every new post. I am trying to maintain a new post once a day, but we all know that saying you are going to do something and actually doing it might be two different things.

Once again, you won't find any groundbreaking things here. It is mainly aimed at those who have not had much programming experience and/or are completely clueless to working with UnrealScript.

I have currently over 9 hours of me going over UnrealScript, however I'm sure if I recreated some of my earlier tutorials and streamlined information more, my video run times would be quite shorter.

I am creating this thread in hopes that if there are any new people to UnrealScript and if they are following my tutorials, they can come here to leave some collective feedback about what I am doing right, what I am doing wrong, and what they would like to see. While I will consider requests for new tutorials, I am trying to build my series in a very step-by-step method which will eventually get to a point where you will be able to implement your own designs and logic.

One last thing, if you were to embark on the journey that is my tutorial series, please start out with using the February build of UDK. You will migrate to March within the series and it will save us both headaches.

http://forecourse.com/unreal-tutorials/

Sorry for the long post, and hopefully if you are new, you'll give my site a read. Thanks.

Shelke
03-27-2010, 01:31 PM
Hey allar, I've been following your website for some time now, and found it pretty neat. I've also been figuring out unrealscript. but I'm nowhere as advanced as you.

I have replicated functionality by recoding it in actor and lower classes, I'm still finding it dificult when it comes to the higher classes, even damage types are unexplored.

I appreciate your efforts on this and wouldn't mind helping with what I can. so if you want some help or just to talk, pm me.

geodav
03-27-2010, 02:38 PM
nice set so far, it might be an idea to make a list of your tutorials and post it in your 1st post, this is so that people can see what is there instead of just visiting a site to find there's nothing there that interests them.

must dl the HUD video's ;)

JohNLA
03-27-2010, 04:51 PM
I am total noob coder and I this is great:D
I am only page #1 but I am really enjoying it so far

Kamikaz2011
03-27-2010, 06:35 PM
i have already the march version ,, is that bad ? what can i do ?

Nysuatro
03-27-2010, 06:47 PM
You rock sire

Allar
03-27-2010, 08:02 PM
i have already the march version ,, is that bad ? what can i do ?

Things will still work, but you might get a few warnings here are there. Also, the UDK* classes won't be available to derive from. You can go ahead and derive from the next lower class. The tutorials after the post "Migrating from Feb to March" will work with the march build however.

Also wanted to thank you guys for your feedback, you people are awesome.

NemesisX64
03-27-2010, 08:20 PM
been following your blog for some time now, done most of the tuts, was a real help getting accustomed to uscript. Thank you.

NothAU
03-27-2010, 09:22 PM
Yeah, Allar, your blog is a great resource.

Allar
03-31-2010, 10:40 AM
I don't know what was going on when I made Part 3 (http://forecourse.com/2010/03/beginning-your-game-part-3/), its the only tutorial in the series that broke everything.

Its fixed now... in a way :D

I've also added a lot more new tutorials since the original post. Thanks for the feedback guys.

Sir. Polaris
03-31-2010, 04:22 PM
Just wanted to note - UDK Central (http://udkc.info/index.php?title=Main_Page) is now featuring text tutorials from Allar - Thanks Allar :D

euanc
04-06-2010, 08:29 PM
This is awesome! I have been looking for some unrealscript tutorials for ages!

shuriken88
04-29-2010, 08:16 PM
Wow, thanks for the tutorials mate. Im completely new to scripting, but I know atleast 80% of the features can only be done with scripting. To me, all this scripting business is confusing as hell, and I didn't even know where to begin. Hopefully one day I'll be able make sense of unrealscript, one day...lol