Hi. Im brand new to UDK. I have absolutely no idea what i'm doing. Im in the Army and working full time and just looking for a little side hobby to keep me occupied. I am hopefully gonna try for a job with Epic after my tour with the military and want to start now so I got a head start. If anyone knows of ANY way to start learning how to use this program and other such stuff it would be greatly appreciated.
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There's plenty of learning materials online, but you have to plan what you want to do, figure out a project and whenever you run into something that you don't know how to do then do the research to find out how to do it. Break things down into small items, like how to import a mesh and things like that.
Realize though, if you're just starting out and have no experience in game development/programming/3D animation and you want to make it into a career then it's going to take a lot of time and dedication to get to that point. -
Here's a UDK beginner level tutorial series on YouTube. These tutorials are amazing and really helped me when I was starting out:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...967D7CA020E636Comment
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Why not play America's Army, its done in Unreal (almost identical to UDK, though with heavily customized UScript)? No, in fact, start with The New Boston's vids (as Thomasmul10 proposed) or with the vids of 3dBuzz (better, but older; some stuff doesn't work anymore in UDK, especially the top down game example), also on Youtube. Plough through the official Documentation. Read one or two good books on UDK (packtpub has several ones), and some more general game design / level design books. A good starting point is David Perry on Game Design: A Brainstorming ToolBox. Level design is somewhat more difficult since you won't find too much on that. A gentle introduction with some general tips is Novak/Castillo: Level Design for Games. Though written for Unreal 2, most tips are engine-agnostic and will work with UDK and UE4 as well. A great resource for Unreal and Source based games with tips and tutorials on technical as well as design issues is world of level design.Comment
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