Mod Author Resources

[legacy-StevePolge]

Here's some useful mod author resources, for both mappers/artists and coders.

Web sites:

http://udn.epicgames.com
http://sv3.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/unr_main.php
http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/wiki/
http://www.psyonix.com

Files:

UT2004 UnrealScript source (includes some useful C++ source as reference also)
http://unreal.epicgames.com/Files/scripts3186.zip

UT2004 UDE (script development environment)
http://unreal.epicgames.com/Files/UDE3005.zip

Map and Mod Optimization Guide
http://unreal.epicgames.com/Files/op...tion-guide.txt

[legacy-Iceboy2003]

How come this isn't on unreal.epicgames.com?

I used to go there for latest engine info/MSUC updates but it hasn't been touched in like ~6 months... :cry:

P.S. - Isn't there a patch comng out soon too?

[legacy-StevePolge]

MSUC updates and other Unreal Tournament related news is posted on the www.unrealtournament.com website now.

We will begin testing a patch for UT2004 in the next few days.

- Steve

[legacy-Iceboy2003]

coolness :up: heart :up:

How soon until a changelog is released?

[legacy-fukenskanken]

I don't understand how to use the UDE file? Is it supposed to be an IDE for unrealscript, and if so, how do you install and run it?

[legacy-Harmeister]

Originally posted by fukenskanken
I don't understand how to use the UDE file? Is it supposed to be an IDE for unrealscript, and if so, how do you install and run it?

Download the .zip file and install the umod inside of it. This will install it into the UT2004\System\UDE directory. It will also place an icon on your desktop. From here it should be pretty straight forward, just follow the setup wizard. You should also have the classes already extracted into the UT2004 directory from the zip Steve provided above or the class/package tree will not be created properly. If you did this out of order simply refresh the trees from the UT2004 menu.

[legacy-fukenskanken]

Thanks, i'm pretty much a newb with unreal
Part of the problem was that for some reason my OS didn't have ut4mod files associated with ut2004/system/setup.exe. They didn't have an association at all, so i had to go in and edit one in. Thanks again...

[legacy-fukenskanken]

Originally posted by Harmeister
Download the .zip file and install the umod inside of it. This will install it into the UT2004\System\UDE directory. It will also place an icon on your desktop. From here it should be pretty straight forward, just follow the setup wizard. You should also have the classes already extracted into the UT2004 directory from the zip Steve provided above or the class/package tree will not be created properly. If you did this out of order simply refresh the trees from the UT2004 menu.

Ok, one more question. You say to extract the classes from the scripts.zip file into the UT2004 directory. I did that, and now i have a folder UT2004/scripts3186/ and then a bunch of other folders for the different scripts. But the UDE doesn't load up any classes in the class view on the left. Where should the scripts be located exactly so that I can just do a refresh and they will all show up in the class view?

[legacy-Bigcheeese]

when ever i try to install the UDE. it starts up the weapons of evil installer and tells me i dont own ut2004 WTF??? fix now or die a most painfull death.

[legacy-Org]

I just find it horribly amusing that the UDE is released a grand total of one day after I registered WOTgreal.

[legacy-Harmeister]

Originally posted by Bigcheeese
when ever i try to install the UDE. it starts up the weapons of evil installer and tells me i dont own ut2004 WTF??? fix now or die a most painfull death.

Then re-install the game so that it knows where to find UT2004. The UDE works on a similar principle: you must have the game installed correctly in at least one place in order for it to work.

[legacy-Harmeister]

Originally posted by Org
I just find it horribly amusing that the UDE is released a grand total of one day after I registered WOTgreal.

There are two large differences: the UDE will *ONLY* work for UT2004 (not UT, not UT2003, not any other unreal engine game), and it will not receive any significant new features. WOTgreal development is continuing (albeit kind of at a slow pace because of real life contingencies) and you will like the results (like the GUI designer, which the UDE will not receive right now).

Dean

[legacy-Org]

Originally posted by Harmeister
There are two large differences: the UDE will *ONLY* work for UT2004 (not UT, not UT2003, not any other unreal engine game), and it will not receive any significant new features. WOTgreal development is continuing (albeit kind of at a slow pace because of real life contingencies) and you will like the results (like the GUI designer, which the UDE will not receive right now).

Dean

You misunderstand, I’m not complaining, I just find the irony beautiful. Besides you are owed the money on a purely ethical standpoint, I’ve used it for quite a bit back in 2003 lifetime.

[legacy-Harmeister]

Originally posted by fukenskanken
Ok, one more question. You say to extract the classes from the scripts.zip file into the UT2004 directory. I did that, and now i have a folder UT2004/scripts3186/ and then a bunch of other folders for the different scripts. But the UDE doesn't load up any classes in the class view on the left. Where should the scripts be located exactly so that I can just do a refresh and they will all show up in the class view?

The folders should be in the UT2004 directory (not the UT2004\scripts3186 directory) because UCC will not be able to pick them up otherwise.

in other words it looks like this

UT2004
+ Core
|   + Classes
|      + A whole bunch of Files
+ Engine
|  + Classes
|     + More classes

etc.

[legacy-Harmeister]

Originally posted by Org
You misunderstand, I’m not complaining, I just find the irony beautiful. Besides you are owed the money on a purely ethical standpoint, I’ve used it for quite a bit back in 2003 lifetime.

I didn't think you were complaining, so no problem. I just wanted to point out that even though there are very few differences now, there will be larger and larger ones down the line.

[legacy-Org]

Originally posted by Harmeister
I didn't think you were complaining, so no problem. I just wanted to point out that even though there are very few differences now, there will be larger and larger ones down the line.

Something to help with GUI stuff would be a god send, I have this sheet of paper covered in long hand math trying to place radar circles, aligned and scaled nicely. Overall thankyou for your time and effort in developing this.

[legacy-fukenskanken]

Originally posted by Harmeister
The folders should be in the UT2004 directory (not the UT2004\scripts3186 directory) because UCC will not be able to pick them up otherwise.

in other words it looks like this

UT2004
+ Core
|   + Classes
|      + A whole bunch of Files
+ Engine
|  + Classes
|     + More classes

etc.

Thanks, much better now. Great program!

[legacy-Bigcheeese]

i just reinstalled ut2004 like 2 days ago because of some fing cd key error.

and how will reinstalling it fix the error with it bringing up the weapons of evil mod??? i am just going to export it and do it my self. umod sucks i has NEVER worked, NEVER. so f it.

[legacy-Harmeister]

Originally posted by Bigcheeese
i just reinstalled ut2004 like 2 days ago because of some fing cd key error.

and how will reinstalling it fix the error with it bringing up the weapons of evil mod??? i am just going to export it and do it my self. umod sucks i has NEVER worked, NEVER. so f it.

ah, *now* I understand (sorry about that). I thought you were calling the installer evil, not that the ut4mod somehow got associated with that mod's installer.

to fix the ut2004 installation error make sure that the "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\UT2004.Module\shell\open\comman d" key's default value is set to something like 'C:\UT2004\System\Setup.exe "%1"' (w/o the single quotes, with the double quotes).

Lastly, if the Weapons of Evil mod overwrote setup.exe with their own, then I don't know what to do other than to re-install. Sorry that my post seemed rude, but that really was the only way I know to deal with it if they overwrote setup.exe (which seems more likely than overwriting the registry entry).

[legacy-Harmeister]

I've also seen installers have this problem when there is crap left behind in your temp directories. (like once, for reason's I could never figure out, every time I tried to launch the NVidia detonator installer it would launch the installer for the new sound card I just put in). InstallShield is particularly flakey sometimes. So the other thing to do is to clean out all your temp directories

Possible locations include
C:\Tmp
C:\Temp
C:\Windows\Tmp
C:\Windows\Temp
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp
C:\WINNT\Profiles\username\Local Settings\Temp
etc.

The usual suspects, really.

[legacy-Bigcheeese]

thanks but i just got umod extractor and did it my self its ezer that way.

[legacy-Warbler]

Originally posted by StevePolge

We will begin testing a patch for UT2004 in the next few days.

If you plan to release a patch for UT2004, can you please correct the bug in CTFSquadAI file ? (this bug makes a lot of warning when playing in VCTF, and prevent bots from using vehicle in this gametype) See my post about CTFSquadAI in the Troubleshooting & Technology section for more info (I think the code I give there can fix this bug )

Thx

[legacy-olivehehe_03]

Originally posted by Harmeister

to fix the ut2004 installation error make sure that the "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\UT2004.Module\shell\open\comman d" key's default value is set to something like 'C:\UT2004\System\Setup.exe "%1"' (w/o the single quotes, with the double quotes).
more likely than overwriting the registry entry).

This is good and all but how the hell do i do it??? cos i got a similar problem with a ut4mod file

[legacy-Harmeister]

Originally posted by olivehehe_03
This is good and all but how the hell do i do it??? cos i got a similar problem with a ut4mod file

First thing is to check the setup.exe in your UT2004\System directory. Make sure it's the UT2004 one and not from some other mod (may or may not happen, don't know). If it is not the UT2004 one then you will have to re-install UT2004.

If this file *is* the UT2004 one, then follow these steps

[NOTE: I claim no responsibility if this messes things up. I've done it on my own system many times, but playing in the registry is not for the weak of heart]

open up RegEdit (Start->Run->type in "regedit" w/o the quotes, press enter)
browse through the tree till you find HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\UT2004.Module\shell\open\command
if the value of the default key on the right is not pointing to 'C:\UT2004\System\Setup.exe "%1" (where C:\UT2004 is your own installation directory) then change it to be correct. (Double click on the value and it will pop up a dialog where you can change it)
Close regedit.

[Sir_Brizz]

Originally posted by Harmeister
There are two large differences: the UDE will *ONLY* work for UT2004 (not UT, not UT2003, not any other unreal engine game), and it will not receive any significant new features. WOTgreal development is continuing (albeit kind of at a slow pace because of real life contingencies) and you will like the results (like the GUI designer, which the UDE will not receive right now).

Dean

GUI designer??? <3

[legacy-muska]

How long until we get some native linux tools for compiling?

[legacy-3v1£jesú§]

Wow!! UDE is much better than what I've been using for the past year...notepad.

Originally posted by muska
How long until we get some native linux tools for compiling?

muska: Just *maybe* someone out there has already made emacs macros for unrealscript. Or, if you're like me and not down with editors which are over a decade older than I am, take a look on sourceforge.net and see if there's anything out there. As a Linux programmer, I'd make a tool if I had the time, but I most certainly don't.

[legacy-cz_Fool]

Earlier someone said to install the umod file inside the zip. How do you do that? I've read the post a few times and I can't figure it out for the life of me.

[legacy-cz_Fool]

Also, are we supposed to compile the .uc files into the system directory? I'm a complete noob, can someone please explain this to me?

[legacy-Evil_J]

If i am not wrong I beleive you mentioned the GUI designer in WOTgreal. Can you elaborate on that... were this is.. or when it is going to be released...

cheers

[legacy-Harmeister]

It is a visual designer for making GUI stuff in UT2004. No estimated release date simply because I don't know. RL work and School, not to mention three kids take up my time currently. I'm working on it, but going is slow.

[legacy-eye_smell]

Originally posted by cz_Fool
Earlier someone said to install the umod file inside the zip. How do you do that? I've read the post a few times and I can't figure it out for the life of me.

YEa im also confused about that too, i'd like to get started...if i only knew how

[legacy-kungfu hampster]

I'd definetly be happy to have some kind of GUI designer...especially something for placing stuff on the HUD. Moving things around with numbers and then booting and rebotting the program means no fun for me!:bulb:

[legacy-dgslogic]

When I unzip the UT2004 scripts file, I did not find a Core/ directory. Is it supposed to
be missing?

[legacy-kungfu hampster]

What do you mean by directory?

[legacy-dgslogic]

When I unzip the 2003 src there are a number of directories, one of which is
named "Core". A sub-directory of the "Core" directory is "Classes". In
the "Classes" directory are 5 .uc files, one of which is named Object.uc.

But when I unzip the 2004 code the "Core" directory and its class files
(ie. Object.uc) are 'missing'.

[legacy-kungfu hampster]

There should be a core folder in there. Maybe it didn't unzip correctly?

[legacy-dgslogic]

I downloaded this file again:
http://unreal.epicgames.com/Files/scripts3186.zip

Turned out to be the same size as the previous time I downloaded it.
Unzipping again did not change anything. I'm also missing InternetLink.uc

Can I just copy the Core and the InternetLink.uc file from the 2003 code
to the 2004 code?

Thanks.

[legacy-kungfu hampster]

Hmmm...did u go into the editor and extract the scripts from the actor browser?

[legacy-dgslogic]

No. All I've done is unzip scripts3186.zip on my Linux box.
The result is:

BonusPack
Editor
Engine
Fire
Gameplay
GUI2K4
Onslaught
OnslaughtFull
ProUI
SampleSkin
skaarjpack
SkaarjPack_rc
UnGame.cpp
UnLevAct.cpp
UnLevTic.cpp
UnPawn.cpp
UnrealEd
UnrealGame
UnVehicle.cpp
UT2k4Assault
UT2k4AssaultFull
UTClassic
UTV2004c
UTV2004s
UWeb
Vehicles
XAdmin
XEffects
XGame
XGame_rc
XInterface
XPickups
XPickups_rc
xVoting
XWeapons
XWeapons_rc
xWebAdmin

I was expecting to see "Core" between BonusPack and Editor