The editor part of weapon making

[UTCollector88]

I have some questions before I start creating weapons on the editor side.
I looked through some of the weapon packages in the editor and got a pretty good idea on what things I need like Materials, textures, sounds, animations, etc.

My first question is where do you find the ammo packages? There is no packages for the ammo in the generic browser under the generic tab.

My second question is how would you go about exporting a weapon from one game and importing it into the Unreal Tournament 3 editor? I heard this program called Maya mentioned but I don't know where to get it or much about it.

Also is there any tutorials on how to create skeletal meshes and textures and animations and sounds? If not are they easy to figure out by self teaching yourself?

Another question I have is can you export and import sounds into the editor? Like say I wanted to export the dispersion pistol firing sound from unreal into the UT3 editor, can I do that?

[UTCollector88]

Does anyone have any experience with weapon making?

[mruczek]

making real good weapons is very hard for ut 3 men

[plugh]

Ammo packages are in the PICKUPS packages if I remember correctly.

There's a program called uModel which allows you to export from unreal packages. Of course that won't export the script, you'll still need to do the coding.

For the modelling, animation etc, look for tutorials in google, there's loads, it's just a matter of finding the right one for you.

If you can't export the sounds from the editor, then look for a program called "oggextract", which I believe should do the trick.

[UTCollector88]

Ammo packages are in the PICKUPS packages if I remember correctly.

Are the pickup packages in the generic browser? Cause I cant seem to find them in there.



If you can't export the sounds from the editor, then look for a program called "oggextract", which I believe should do the trick.

I mainly want to import sounds into the editor, will this program do that as well? Like the dispersion pistol sound from Unreal into UT3.
I don't have the editors for UT2004 or UT99 or Unreal anymore so that is why I am asking.

[UTCollector88]

making real good weapons is very hard for ut 3 men

Most of the weapons I am going to make will be enhanced weapons from other unreal games that are changed a bit. Not a lot of it will be created from scratch cause I will be importing stuff from other unreal games and copying and changing things. For example one of the weapons I am going to create is the assault rifle. I was going to import the CAR from Unreal NP and change it to look UT3ish.