Difference between revisions of "Legacy:Unreal Engine"

Latest revision as of 06:45, 29 August 2013

This is a legacy page imported from the old Unreal Wiki. Please avoid editing or moving it and improve Unreal Engine instead.

The Unreal Engine is the core software at the heart of UT, UT2003 and other games.

It has a two-tier structure:

1. the C++ code, which in Unreal we call the "native" stuff. This handles all the low-level stuff and platform-specific things. It runs a Wikipedia:virtual machine similar to the Wikipedia:Java virtual machine, on which runs...
2. the UnrealScript stuff. This is an object-oriented language that looks similar to Java or Javascript.

Most work with the engine is done in UnrealScript.

Overview[edit]

• Key Engine Concepts to get you started
• Terminology - the Unreal engine dictionary
• Game Info : Gameplay and Gametype
• Game Event Flow
• Controller Overview
• Player Info : PlayerController and Pawn
• Bot Support and Artificial Intelligence
• Taking Damage - how it works
• Inventory, Weapon, Pickup
• Interaction
• GUI and GUI Overview
• Replication
• Topics On Modeling
• Topics On Mapping
• Making Mods and Mutator Topics

Versions[edit]

• Unreal Engine Versions
• UnrealEd Versions

Files[edit]

• Engine directory structure
• Package extension catalog
• File Formats

General[edit]

• Console Commands
• Game Ini File
• Compiling with UCC / Compiler Errors
• MyLevel pseudo-package – storing resources into maps
• BSP Tree – Really technical, intuitive, but generalized description
• Unreal Engine Core – Preliminary, hypothetical, I think we need Divine Intervention here...
• Object Oriented Programming Overview – How it works in the unreal engine
• OCD – Object Collision Detection in UT.
• Replication – Unreal netcode
• Terminology – Abbreviations, acronyms and technical terms
• Server Query In Perl
• Karma
• Skeletal Mesh: How to control animations and individual bones from UnrealScript

Object Physics[edit]

• Collision Detection
• PhysicsType

Suggested Overview Topics[edit]

• Kinematics
• Classical Dynamics Theory for Rigid Bodies
• Interpolation
• Particle Animation
• Algorithms

Discussion[edit]

Bob_The_Beheader: Maybe link to an external site (like, from a university) on advanced physics for these topics??? ...except particle animation... but this is definately not what I learned in high school... :)

SuperApe: This page needs updating pretty badly. Many of the Overview pages are available now.