New tutorial book WIP

[Hellsing80h]

hey guys.

Just want to lay a post out ti se who is interestet. im starting to convert my ref book to a tutorial book because that trough my short time i have been a member of this community, i see, like a lot of you properly allso do that not only do people ask a lot of the same basics proplems as we all did then we startet. but answers to advansed stuff is really hard to find, for some foks, especialy me.

it is still lot of work in prosess, but the idea is that i shall cover all the need of a hoppy and sigle develupber that whant to make a non UT game, form the installing of UDK to the publishing with all that come in betvine, like modeling - animation - cammeras - Weapon setup - inventory - ETC.

If enyone have some tutorials they know of or made then self, i whud like to know. i will ofcouse properly credit every one.

here is the table of context as it is so far and what i plan to do

Chapter Page

CHANGE HISTORY 5
FOREWORD 6
P1. who am i 6
P2. This EBook 6
P3. A Big thanks too 7
UDK (UNREAL DEVELOPMENT KIT) 8
P1. Introduktion 8
THE FIRST NON UT GAME 9
C1 the Starting point 9
C2 Setting Up Your enviroment 12
P1 UDK Basic Setup 12
P2 Blender basic Setup 14
C3 The characters – From start to finish 17
C4 Making Dudes 18
P1. Making a Male character. – Adding some muscles. 18
P2. Making a Male character. – UV and Textures. 18
P3. Making a Male character. – Skeletal Rigging. 18
P4. Making a Male character. – Making Animation. 18
P5. Making a Male character. – Exporting 18
C5 Making The Girls. 18
P1. Making a Female character. – Filling out the form. 18
P2. Making a female character. – UV and Textures. 18
P3. Making a female character. – Skeletal Rigging. 18
P4. Making a female character. – Making Animation. 18
P5. Making a Female character. – Exporting 18
C6. Now what? 19
P1. Making a character. – Import The Body And Animation. 19
P2. Making a character. – Importing Textures and it’s rules can't 19
P3. Making A Character. – Animation Sets and Trees 19
P4. Making A Character. – Physics 19
C7. Your First Script 19
P1. Context Setup. 20
P2. Uncode Ex. Setup. 20
P2. The Game type 20
P3. The Pawn. 20
P4. The controller 20
P5. The Camera. 20
P6. Recompile And Play. 20
C8. Scripting: Inventory 20
P1. Swords and other nasty opclose and personal weapons. 20
P1-A. Making the blade. – the model 20
P1-B. Making the blade. – Export import. 20
P1-C. Making the blade. – Scripting. 20
P1-D. Making the blade. – But what if. 20
P2. The hand guns. And small thing with a bang. 20
P2-A. Making a pistol – Modeling. 20
P2-B. Making the pistol. – Export import. 20
P2-C. Making the pistol. – Scripting. 21
P2-D. Making the pistol. – But what if. 21
Making a World map 21
BLENDER V2.60 25
P1. Introduction 25
P2. Controles 26
P3. making you first model (Simpel door) 28
Adding Detail 36
UV mapping 38
p4. Making a person with animation 38
p5. Making a movie 38
P10. Adding a mesh to a skeleton 39

hope this is going to help let me know if you whant something added

Then it is done i plan on posting it as a PDF on this thread

let me know what you think

Sebastian

[geodav]

go for it

[tegleg]

put mine in there if you want

[Hellsing80h]

Hey Tegleg, i will then and your name too, Thx for sharing your knowlege

and thx Geodav, can i put you tutorials in there as well ? if i remmember corretly you have some pretty good stuff on weapons

[Hellsing80h]

Hehe Awsome stuff you have, it will really come in handy, Thx a lot

[Lexluthor1]

hey guys. ti se ' interestet. im trough startet. prosess, hoppy and sigle develupber, tin betvine, ofcouse Sebastian

If you do can you make sure its in English and spelt correctly !

[Hellsing80h]

hehe sorry i was a little to fast, and jes it is going to be in english, with words 2007 spell check but aint that far with it yet

[Hellsing80h]

okay here is the first opdate, i have just finished of the setting op blender and UDK part of the book, it only took like 16 pages to do that, i allso addid in some stuf to think about then making your first game, some of the things i though about, if any one want to try it you i upload it and cep working, if not im going to cep working and let you know then the next advance is near.



Sebastian, The lone Wolf.

[Lexluthor1]

okay here is the first opdate, i have just finished of the setting op blender and UDK part of the book, it only took like 16 pages to do that, i allso addid in some stuf to think about then making your first game, some of the things i though about, if any one want to try it you i upload it and cep working, if not im going to cep working and let you know then the next advance is near.



Sebastian, The lone Wolf.

OK Sebastian, I'll give you the benefit of doubt considering you're Danish.
Good luck with the book

[Hellsing80h]

benefit of doubt ? say what ? not sure what you mean, and jes my english is terable on the forum, mostly because that Internet explore dont have spell check like firefox XD

and jes im danish
and sorry im doing my best

[geodav]

keep at it, my english is rubbish as well and its my mother tongue

[Hellsing80h]

hehe thanks Geodav ^^ im doing my best, whud you mind checking it for errors them i got some more pages written, it seams to me you got some experience ^^

[geodav]

sure why not, but trust me my grammer is crap, got a 5 in english

[Hellsing80h]

hehe dont worry i got 6 witch is barely passed, at the last exam ^^ uhm do you know eny thing about cloth ?

[geodav]

nope sorry, i find its not worth the hassle atm

[Hellsing80h]

okay ^^ i had a problem with some scaling in unreal scipt, but fixed it my self, since no one ells whud help me, just wondering how do you get help here ?
i have a succes rate of 40% so far, lot of qiustions that newer get answered.

[geodav]

depends on what sort of help you need, somethings a lot of people know and others very few who then don#t pass the info on

[Hellsing80h]

hehe well i think that is the problem with this forum, a lot know the basic a few know the advanced part, and even fewer whants to share that info or they simply forget it ^^
im hoping my book will change a bit on that ^^

[Dragon666]

You can add this aswell:
http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/...ghlight=puzzle

I'm new to UDK myself, but I made it fairly simple and easily extendable.

[Hellsing80h]

Sure i will add it ass well ^^ thx but what is it ? ^^

[KY2K]

Looking forward to seeing this done Hellsing80h, hows it coming along?

[Hellsing80h]

to be hornest a lttile slow, im still learning and writing down what i find out. so far you can find it all on UDN, basic engine setop an stuff like that. if you like i can post a vary early version off it ^^

[tomacmuni]

OneNote is really nice for doing write-as-you-learn documents. It has a really handy insert screen grab tool, you can link to videos and add attachments, and it syncs to Skydrive so it is really easy to maintain.
Then you can share the NoteBook via a link.

Tom Mooney
www.tomofnz.com

UDK Book: http://link.packtpub.com/onGAdU

[Javier]

Hi Tom. Congratulations for your book. Great work. It's on my bedside table! It has helped me several times, in some trouble ...

I'm translating some of the most relevant files of the UDK documentation to Spanish for my own use, so I'll try OneNote to add a few things.

Thank you.

[Zelzahim]

So how is this coming along? Would be awesome Hellsing80h

[Hellsing80h]

hey you guys im back after a long break do to things happening in my personal life.

but now im ready for a new start and was wonderring what subject you guys whould like to know more about

[elvince]

Few topics that I'm interested:
1 - How Inventory works (Single Player and Multiplayer)
2 - How to set OnlineStats and Achievements
3 - How to set ammo number directly on a weapon mesh (overlay?)
4 - Step by Step level design creation with the current editor. ie Take a small map that you will do step by step with some basic BSP, static mesh, lights, sounds, player start position etc...
5 - Map Setup for the basic game like TeamDeathMatch, CTF, ...
6 - Make a Cloak Material ^^
7 - How to call webservices from UDK to get information from a website/database (HTTP & HTTPS)
8 - How to create a Key Setting interface to bind Key with Commands in game.
9 - Step by Step Character creation + animation + export + setup in UDK <= This one will be owesome
10 - How to create a Character with customisation + UI for customisation. Like changing Hair, Armor part, Face, Tatoo etc..

Maybe some tutorial already exists in the forum on this. But if I can get one document with all those topics that will be easier for my learning curve.
I bet it's a lot of work to create such book! Good luck with your task!