Melee Basic Questions/Tutorials

[zionfiction]

I am looking forward to begin my first steps in Unity and therefor i want to set up my char first.

I know it is hard to find in documentation and its not quite the best 4 a Beginner to set up customized things BUT....

can someone with somewhat more Knowledge bring me on my way to:
1)
set up third person (that aims like a third Person, with all the other Tutorials out there it is only possible for me by now to have the 3d person look but aiming remains..
fix that would be enough for a Beginning and learning)
2)have a very Basic Melee Setup?
Tutorials about that are rare and i dont get where to beginn to customize my default char.

BIGGEST Problem of all:
Nearly every Tutorial is about script, which is clear. I dont find where to beginn to enter script. So please guide me how to open script to change it..i dont find any button or else named Script....
in 3ds i got a line for that ****...
I wanna follow this guidance but where do i start to enter my first line? Wheres the Scriptingeditor?

prefered this one:
http://udkc.info/index.php?title=Tutorials:Custom_Weapon/Melee


better is that...
https://sites.google.com/a/mavrikgames.com/home/tutorials/melee-weapon-tutorial-part-1

New edit:
1st link says something about changing the UT Weapon Class which i found and open it in an editor..
the weapon class looks like this:

Begin Object Class=UDKSkeletalMeshComponent Name=FirstPersonMesh
DepthPriorityGroup=SDPG_Foreground
bOnlyOwnerSee=true
bOverrideAttachmentOwnerVisibility=true
End Object

Tutorial says:
Begin Object Name=PickupMesh

SkeletalMesh=SkeletalMesh'WP_MyWeaponPackage.MyWea pon_Skeletal_3rdPersonMesh'

End Object

Begin Object Name=FirstPersonMesh

SkeletalMesh=SkeletalMesh'WP_MyWeaponPackage.MyWea pon_Skeletal_1stPersonMesh'

AnimSets(0)=AnimSet'WP_MyWeaponpackage.MyAnimSet'

Animations=MeshSequenceA

End Object

Can someone help me out and tell me if to change or wehter to replace something?
thanks 4 helping a noob...we all get started somewhere...

[Chosker]

I am looking forward to begin my first steps in Unity and [...]
Fail.


biggest problem of them all: you tried scripting tutorials without knowing where to put them. you got ahead of yourself, you need to start with the basics :)
http://www.hourences.com/an-entire-simple-udk-game/
rule of thumb: you never need to replace the UDK scripts. you always create your own, that extend from existing scripts, and create new script functions or override existing ones with your own.

1) third person. there's a full camera tutorial including third person on UDN.
2) melee combat. it's not so rare, everyone has come asking for it every month and there's tutorials about this, with different approaches, etc. search away!

[zionfiction]

nice link.wonder why i couldnt google it.maybe i have to extend my google search behavior....

thanks. i will work through this guidance...by the way the first one explaining very good some basics far behind the tons of crap tutorials on youtube etc...

i start directly. Thanks a lot, maybe i was really way ahead of myself at first...

[zionfiction]

wont work. info is from 2010 and doesnt work after nov2010 Kits.
get stucked on menücreating. points out to have third person setup, which is completly missing in the tutorial...wasting time to get to know the differences between builds. i have chosen the fresh one which was released...
So i cant get to the point behind....need to search ahead...

New edit.....and very frustrated!
Tutorial is ****ty, link is out of date, the mentioned UDN Tutorial on third person including camera i cant find...

by the way "and create new script functions or override existing ones with your own." => that was my goal. tutorials on TP which will work with actual builds = none..
UDN tutorial = none found by myself (not the mentioned, but i will search ahead...)

[ADF86]

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UnrealScriptFoundations.html
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UnrealScriptHome.html

[Graylord]

New edit.....and very frustrated!
Tutorial is ****ty, link is out of date, the mentioned UDN Tutorial on third person including camera i cant find...


Yeah, it outdated, but far from "****ty" and useless. Other than UIScenes, it is pretty much still valid. Just skip that part.

[Chosker]

Yeah, it outdated, but far from "****ty" and useless. Other than UIScenes, it is pretty much still valid. Just skip that part.
he's right, and you don't need UIScenes at all to get to work on your melee stuff anyway

[zionfiction]

nice peepl!

@chosker
@graylord
Skip that part isnt possible, because of the later tutorial which goes on to connect the melee stuff on the Interface including to have a UI scene MAP...
second part of ****ty is:
the parts inside the inis etc is different to what is mentioned there.
There IS NO UTGameInfo, therse completely no UTxyz.uc file, all of them named UDKxyz.uc! So its hard to follow on with scriptingextensions when the basement isnt the exact same thing, hope you understand that seen from a noobs point of view.

Next thing is that all of the tut is more compiling and setting up System than fix Meleethings.

So valid in my opinion is something different from that. for someone who earned knowledge in UDK its surely easier to follow and keep things runnin.
but for me it is useless at this point because there is NO thirdperson thing and no melee thing in it at all. If i dont get that part, please show me where to find.

I keep on tracking the other two links from graylord now, cause the Interfacething isnt skipable, which is mentioned in the text...

Looks like some extra hours reading and fokusing on this thing...

[Graylord]

Skip that part isnt possible, because of the later tutorial which goes on to connect the melee stuff on the Interface including to have a UI scene MAP...
second part of ****ty is:

No, it doesnt? Just skip the parts related to UI, UI has nothing whatsoever to do with creating weapon functionality.


There IS NO UTGameInfo, therse completely no UTxyz.uc file, all of them named UDKxyz.uc! So its hard to follow on with scriptingextensions when the basement isnt the exact same thing, hope you understand that seen from a noobs point of view.

You're in the wrong folder, the UT classes are most definitely included.

[geodav]

ok before you jump into the deepend with melee get your project/workflow sorted, watch upto date videos, there is a lot of old stuff out there that the authors don't support.

if you want to learn the basics then watch my video's and if you still have problems then ask on my support thread

[zionfiction]

yeah thanks, u can bet i will.