Tutorials: UT3/UDK Tutorials and some superb tricks

**scruffy** · 11-22-2009, 02:11 PM

Hi everyone. I figured i should share this with the rest of the world.

On my web site are a bunch of tutorials, anywhere from mesh building, normal maps, lighting and more.

With the new UDK released, i wrote up a Lightmass, Ambient occlusion and Emissive lighting walk through for an easy visual representation of what different functions can do.

Included in this tutorial list is the new 'mesh painting' function and i wrote a tutorial to show how it works and how you can get different effects with it, like offsetting the speed, time or direction of a pulsating light. This can be anything from a street light to a candle. One mesh, one material, thousands of uses.

I have tutorial that show other great functions this 'mesh painting' can be used for, and the power that it brings the visual side of the unreal engine. This is the 'advanced mesh painting tutorial'

Also i have a tutorial to show how you can offset a texture on the mesh based on its worlds location. This is EXTREAMLY handy for hiding repeating textures.

Here is the tutorials section of my web site.
http://www.chrisalbeluhn.com/3D_Tutorials.html

and some direct links to individual tutorials.

Lightmass:
http://www.chrisalbeluhn.com/UDK_Lig..._Tutorial.html

Global Illumination/ambient occlusion:
http://www.chrisalbeluhn.com/UDK_Amb..._Tutorial.html

Emissive Lighting:
http://www.chrisalbeluhn.com/UDK_Sta..._Tutorial.html

Mesh Painting:
http://www.chrisalbeluhn.com/UDK_Mes..._Tutorial.html

Advanced Mesh Painting Material:
http://www.chrisalbeluhn.com/UDK_Adv..._Painting.html

Asset Position Offsetting Texture Coordinates:
http://www.chrisalbeluhn.com/UDK_Ass..._Tutorial.html

This was posted under the "Support Tips and Advice" section but there are a lot of tutorials this 'Documentation' section so i decided to post it here as well so everything has the opportunity to check them out.

Hope you all enjoy.

**QuasarTD** · 11-22-2009, 02:41 PM

Some excelent material there thanks very much!

**Nysuatro** · 11-22-2009, 03:55 PM

Nice contribution. Will be checking these out

**lantic** · 11-22-2009, 05:53 PM

Awesome stuff, Thanks for helpin out.

**docmorbid** · 11-22-2009, 05:53 PM

Lots of good work here, thanks.

**steph** · 11-23-2009, 04:18 AM

Thanks mate for the share!

**jorewe** · 11-23-2009, 06:09 AM

Great tutorials; well written and easy to understand.

Thank you.

**CyborgGuineaPig** · 11-23-2009, 10:13 PM

Nice tuts, thankyou!

**eh_gm** · 11-24-2009, 05:13 AM

Very good tutorials.
Thanks scruffy.

**nvisiongameco** · 11-24-2009, 08:22 AM

Nice tutorials man. They really helped me out!

**vj_box** · 11-25-2009, 01:18 AM

Thanks m8!

**indrapermanahadi** · 11-25-2009, 01:33 AM

thanks man, good tutorials..

**GamerKnight** · 11-28-2009, 08:56 AM

thanks scruffy

i will be checking out the reflective water tut. looks amazing

good work

**scruffy** · 12-02-2009, 02:14 AM

Hey everyone. i just finished creating a tutorial on a few different ways you can use the `world position offset`node located in the material shaders. This is by no means the ONLY uses of this variable, but it`s a starting point for others to tinker around.

I don`t have a text tutorial done up for this yet, but there is a 9 minuted video tutorial on youtube, and yes, it has audio. I will be updating my web site as soon as it`s typed up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfTzUwDeUbM

Hope you all enjoy.

**shaheen** · 12-02-2009, 03:09 AM

yay video tut

thanks scruffy

**Fallen667** · 12-02-2009, 05:07 AM

Just wanted to say THANK YOU, your tutorials are excelent.. great to learn techniques from you.. you impressed me with the "Advanced Vertex Painting".. i was like: WHAAAAAAAT??? when i was watching demo video.. the way material reacts to painting, with all the randomness.. just amazing.. and now "World Position Offset"!!!

Simply excelent..