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Features

• Dark Theme
• High Contrast
• Improved Readability
• Highlighter adjustments for UScript and CSS
• Different coloured borders per GameNameSpace
• Curved Borders in supporting browsers

Known Issues

• Edit/Input boxes are still black text on white.
• interwiki links are wrong blue colour and dont have hoverover colours.
• Navigation and toolbox background still blue on discussion pages.
• 'Page', 'file', 'legacy', 'ue2' top tab border doesnt work correctly. 'Userpage' works!
• ambox's need background colour adjustments for readability.

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Status: Alpha 1

[Stylish User theme]

Proposal - Setting Up jEdit for UScripting

Step by step process of installing, setting up jEdit for use with Uscript. From start to finish, using/commiting to repository's and building using Apache Ant. A major portion of this tutorial is dedicated to giving you the knowledge to editing/customizing your programming environment to your liking (I do feel this can help to improve workflow).

Tools required for this tutorial:

• jEdit - Programmers text editor
• GIT - Source/Build Repository
• Uncodex - UScript Class Browser
• NSIS - Installer/Packaging

Introduction to jEdit

jEdit is a powerful, cross platform, java based programmers text editor.

Edit Modes

jEdit uses what is called edit modes, these specify:

• Syntax highlighting rules
• Auto indent behavior
• Various other customizations for editing a certain filetype

These edit modes are easily installed an updated, they use the XML language and jEdits own document type definition for modes (xmode.dtd). More information on edit modes can be found within jEdits Help section along with a section on writing edit modes so you can customize jEdits UScript mode to your liking.

Setting jEdits Mode

By default jEdit comes with a UScript mode which can be located in the {jEdit Home Directory}\Modes this edit mode is very light weight and doesnt cover all engine versions.

Im going to recommend not using this directory if you plan to modify your edit mode or use one of the custom ones provided below, the reason for this is simpler backups when using the document directory.

On jEdits main toolbar you will find the utilities button, under that is the global options which contains the options for all edit modes. Syntax highlighting colours can be found in here also.

Wormbo's UScript jEdit Mode

My modified UScript jEdit Mode

Recommended Plugins

• Project Viewer: Usability.
• Buffer Tabs: Usability.
• Dirty Gutter: Diff.
• TaskList: TODO, NOTE, FIXME's
• Text Autocomplete: Usability - Code Completion.
• Ant Plugin: Build script for UDK with ant.
• WhiteSpace: Usability/Readability.

• Others: Code folding

Plugin Installation and Settings

jEdits Plugin Manager and Settings can be accessed through the Plugins button on the main toolbar (show picture).

To install new plugins, click on the plugin manager and you will notice a tab up the top of the new window which says install (show picture).

Navigate to this and select the checkboxes for all plugins you wish to install then hit install in the lower left of the panel.

The plugin settings can be found under the Plugins/Plugin Option button on jEdits main toolbar at the top.

Creating your first Project

In this part of the tutorial we will be creating a project using jEdit and Project Viewer.

First off I prefer to have the project viewer docked on the left hand side of jEdit, you can however put it anywhere you wish to place it.

Right click on All Projects which you should see in your project viewer, add a new group (this is a recommendation), this will help to keep all your UScript UT3/UDK etc seperate from any other projects you may wish to create. I have a group named UE3 for example, then under that group I have UT3 and UDK to house each of the projects I have for each.

Once you have your groups setup to your liking you are ready to create a project, this will require that you have a directory to scan for source files within.

Lets create a directory, as examples I'll use UT3 and UDK but you can find information on various UE games directory structures here on the wiki.

Directory Structure

Engine Directory Structure - First we'll start with a rundown of the unreal engines directory structure.

Setting Up Package Folders

Set Up Package Folders - Then we examine how to setup package's so you can compile.

For Unreal Script Classes you will need to first make the package's folder and then the Classes folder. The following eg shows the package folders being

UT2004 - All UT2004 source can be located under the Drive:\{UT2004 Dir}\System Directory so you would create a new directory containing the directory classes in there.
UT3 - For UT3 you create a folder in the Drive:\{User Folder}\{Documents}\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Src directory also containing the directory classes.
UDK - For UDK you create a folder in the Drive:\UDK\{UDK-Version}\Development\Src directory.

So you should have a directory structure like:
UT2004 - Drive:\{UT2004}\System\{Your Package}\Classes
UT3 - Drive:\{User Folder}\{Documents}\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Src\{Your Package}\Classes
UDK - Drive:\UDK\{UDK-Version}\Development\Src\{Your Package}\Classes

Right click on the group you wish to create the project within, click Add Project. This will display the create project dialogs (show Picture) Select a name and the root directory for you project, for now select {Your Package} directory.

Project Viewer would now have selected the project for you, you can navigate back to all projects using the drop down box at the top of Project Viewer.

Creating your first Class

Go to file in jEdits main toolbar and select new. Copy/Paste this template unreal script class to the file, then save the file as {Your Package}\Classes\YourClass.uc

class YourClass extends Mutator;
 
function InitMutator(string Options, out string ErrorMessage)
{
	`log("I am your mutator",,'mutator');
}

You'll notice that Project Viewer doesnt automatically scan for new classes unless it has been selected to do so. Right click on your project in the Project Viewer panel and select 'Re-import files'. Make sure the Project and Classes directories are expanded and you should now see {Your Class} in there.

More on jEdit Modes

Creating a customized template an macro for creating a new class based on this template.

Customizing Project Viewer

Specialized section on setting up Project Viewer's context (Right Click) menu to contain a create class button which will create a class based on a UScript template.

Compiling your Project

Introduction to UnCodex

This is basically a must have application for anyone doing UScript unless ofcoarse you opt to use other IDE's which contain their own class browsers. Personally I think uncodex is still the best out there and its quick with minimal overhead.

There are two versions of UnCodex that I use, I prefer using the older 227 for anything pre-UE3 or TribesV for those I use the newer 237-beta version.

Setting Up UnCodex

Working with multiple copys of unreal engine source (for eg, numerous UDK copies) can be tedious to continuously analyze all the time in uncodex so I'll guide you through setting it up so you can have numerous shortcuts all which cache different versions of [Unreal Engine]. You have to be careful however, this can get confusing as to which copy is in which UnCodex window but you can double check the title bar, which I highly recommend you do. I have been caught out a few times with this myself between UT3 and UDK sources.

As a general rule of thumb I just use the naming convention:
"Drive:\{UnCodeX}\UnCodeX.exe" -config UnCodeX-{GameName/Version}.ini

UT2004 - "Drive:\{UnCodeX227}\UnCodeX.exe" -config UnCodeX-UT2004.ini
DeusEx - "Drive:\{UnCodeX227}\UnCodeX.exe" -config UnCodeX-DeusEx.ini

UT3 - "Drive:\{UnCodeX237-beta}\UnCodeX.exe" -config UnCodeX-UT3.ini
UDK - "Drive:\{UnCodeX237-beta}\UnCodeX.exe" -config UnCodeX-UDK-2009-11-2.ini
UDK - "Drive:\{UnCodeX237-beta}\UnCodeX.exe" -config UnCodeX-UDK-2010-02.ini

Now these INI's will have to exist for this to work, so copy the default UnCodeX.ini and rename it to UnCodeX-{GameName/Version}.ini. Open this file in jEdit or notepad for editing,

[Sources]
''Add your source directories here''

UT2004 - Drive:\{UT2004}\System\
UT3 - Drive:\{User Folder}\{Documents}\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Src\

This is an absolute requirement for UnCodeX to function in multiple mode's correctly. In the past I have forgotten to do this and as the cache isnt saved for that source directory you must rescan each time UnCodeX is loaded.

[GUI.General]
StateFile=UnCodeX-{GameName-Version}.ucx

UT2004 - StateFile=UnCodeX-UT2004.ucx
DeusEx - StateFile=UnCodeX-DeusEx.ucx

UT3 - StateFile=UnCodeX-UT3.ucx
UDK - StateFile=UnCodeX-UDK-2009-11-2.ucx
UDK - StateFile=UnCodeX-UDK-2010-02.ucx

Once you have done that for your required modes you can boot the shortcut and analyze the source, now every time you boot you would be using the cache for that ini/source.

Introduction to Git

Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system. GIT
msysgit - windows

GIT command prompt

Creating a repository=

# cd hello
# ls
# git init
# git add . 

Pushing a repository to GitHub

Create a repository on GitHub then...

# cd hello
# git remote add origin git@github.com:tabrez/hello.git
# git push origin master 

GIT GUI

Pushing a repository to GitHub

Compiling using a simple Batch - Windows

Commandline option links for each UE version.

UDK - Simple Compile batch

Drive:\UDK\{UDK-Version}\Binaries\UDK.exe make -debug -intermediate -log=CompileLog.log -full
pause

Introduction to Ant for jEdit

Using Ant to package a release, both compressed file and Nsis2.0. Online Manual

Ideas

Using Ant scripts to commit to git repository.

Introduction to NSIS

NSIS

Proposal - Replication

Replication

Status: On Hold

-00zX 20:49, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Replication / Replication_(computer_science)

Concept of servers and clients.(NetMode/Relevancy/Reliability)

• Declaring Replication using the Replication Block
• Function Replication using the replication block?
• Booleans Declared in actor that are useful in replication

http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/Introduction_to_replication#

• NetMode (concept)
• Replication Block
  • Actor Replication (bools bnetinitial eg)
  • Variable Value Replication (using block)
    • Repnotify / ReplicatedEvents
  • Function call replication(UT2004)
• Function call replication(UT3)
• Reliability
• Relevance (actor replication??)
  • Role and RemoteRole
• Info
  • ReplicationInfo
    • GameReplicationInfo (GRI)
    • PlayerReplicationInfo (PRI)
    • LinkedReplicationInfo (LRI)

Replication Block

UE3:Actor_(UT3) - link to replication block
Previously in UT200x Reliable and Unreliable were used as part of the replication block as of Unreal Engine 3 this is no longer the case with the keywords becoming function modifiers.

UT200x

replication
{
  reliable/unreliable if ( replication condition )
    identifiers;
}

UT3

replication
{
   if ( replication condition )
    identifiers;
}

Identifiers can be of many types, certain types however arnt allowed like dynamic arrays.

Explain Why can loose sync! it is possible to crosscheck dynamic arrays but it would come at a cost.

[Array] Unlike any other data type in UnrealScript, dynamic arrays have absolutely no support for replication. Attempting to replicate a dynamic array variable will have no effect on the remote instance of that variable. Attempting to use a dynamic array as parameter of a replicated function will result in the parameter being empty when the function is executed on the remote side.

Actor Replication

Variable Value Replication

var() float NewEquipTime;
var() float NewPutDownTime;
 
replication
{
	if(bNetDirty && (Role == ROLE_Authority) && bNetInitial)
		NewEquipTime, NewPutDownTime;
}

Repnotify and Replicated Events

This is new in Unreal Engine 3 and is not available in previous versions.

simulated event ReplicatedEvent(name VarName);	// Called when a variable with the property flag "RepNotify" is replicated
 
/** adds/removes a property from a list of properties that will always be replicated when this Actor is bNetInitial, even if the code thinks
 * the client has the same value the server already does
 * This is a workaround to the problem where an LD places an Actor in the level, changes a replicated variable away from the defaults,
 * then at runtime the variable is changed back to the default but it doesn't replicate because initial replication is based on class defaults
 * Only has an effect when called on bStatic or bNoDelete Actors
 * Only properties already in the owning class's replication block may be specified
 * @param PropToReplicate the property to add or remove to the list
 * @param bAdd true to add the property, false to remove the property
 */
native final function SetForcedInitialReplicatedProperty(Property PropToReplicate, bool bAdd);

usage:

UE3:DroppedPickup_(UT3)

var	repnotify	class<Inventory>			InventoryClass< SEMI >		// Class of the inventory object to pickup
var	repnotify	bool						bFadeOut;
 
replication
{
	if( Role==ROLE_Authority )
		InventoryClass, bFadeOut;
}
 
simulated event ReplicatedEvent(name VarName)
{
	if( VarName == 'InventoryClass' )
	{
		SetPickupMesh( InventoryClass.default.DroppedPickupMesh );
		SetPickupParticles( InventoryClass.default.DroppedPickupParticles );
	}
	else if ( VarName == 'bFadeOut' )
	{
		GotoState('Fadeout');
	}
	else
	{
		super.ReplicatedEvent(VarName);
	}
}
 
defaultproperties
{
	bOnlyDirtyReplication=true
	NetUpdateFrequency=8
	RemoteRole=ROLE_SimulatedProxy
}

Function call replication

Like replicated variables, the replication of a function call can be tied to certain conditions. In Unreal Engine 1 and 2 this condition is specified via the replication block and typically involves comparing the actor's Role to the value ROLE_Authority, Unreal Engine 3 provides the special function modifiers client and server instead.

• Using Network modifiers for Functions

Reliable Unreliable

Client

/** Sets the clients weapon to use the replicated variables */
reliable client function SetWeapProps(UTWeapon W)
{
	W.EquipTime = NewEquipTime;
	W.PutDownTime = NewPutDownTime;
}

Server

/** Gets the times from the weapons and sets them to the replicated variables */
reliable server function GetWeapProps(UTWeapon W)
{
	NewEquipTime = W.default.EquipTime * 0.68;
	NewPutDownTime = W.default.PutDownTime * 0.70;
}

Relevance

Role and RemoteRole

Definition

The Actor class defines the NetRole enumeration and two variables, Role and RemoteRole, as follows:

• UE3:Actor_(UT3)#ENetRole

• UE1:Actor_enums_(UT)#ENetMode
• UE2:Actor_enums_(U2)#ENetRole
• UE2:Actor_enums_(UT2003)#ENetRole
• UE2:Actor_enums_(U2XMP)#ENetMode
• UE2:Actor_enums_(UT2004)#ENetRole

{{category game enums|UT3|Unreal Tournament 3}}

enum ENetRole
{
	ROLE_None,							// No role at all.
	ROLE_SimulatedProxy,		// Locally simulated proxy of this actor.
	ROLE_AutonomousProxy,	// Locally autonomous proxy of this actor.
	ROLE_Authority,					// Authoritative control over the actor.
};
var ENetRole RemoteRole, Role;

usage:

Just like any other Enum really.

if (Role == ROLE_Authority)
{
	// This is the authorative copy of this actor, it was spawned on this machine.
	// It is not a guarantee that we are on the server or in single player!
}
 
if (Role < ROLE_Authortity)
{
	// This is a non-authorative copy of this actor that was replicated
	// from the server. In other words, we must be on a client.
}

As in the replication block of Actor.uc UT3

	// Physics
	if( (!bSkipActorPropertyReplication || bNetInitial) && bReplicateMovement
					&& ((RemoteRole == ROLE_SimulatedProxy) && (bNetInitial || bUpdateSimulatedPosition)) )

NetMode

Definition

The WorldInfo (previously Level Class [ut2kx]) class defines the NetMode enumeration and two variables, Role and RemoteRole, as follows:

• UE3:WorldInfo_(UT3)#ENetMode
  • UE3:WorldInfo_internal_variables_(UT3)

• In LevelInfo for most Unreal Engine games pre UT3/GOW
  • UE1:LevelInfo_(UT)#ENetMode
  • UE2:LevelInfo_(U2)#ENetMode
  • UE2:LevelInfo_(UT2003)#ENetMode
  • UE2:LevelInfo_(U2XMP)#ENetMode
  • UE2:LevelInfo_(UT2004)#ENetMode

var enum ENetMode
{
	NM_Standalone,				// Standalone game.
	NM_DedicatedServer,		// Dedicated server, no local client.
	NM_ListenServer,			// Listen server, local client+server.
	NM_Client							// Client only, no local server.
} NetMode;

Standalone game Dedicated server, no local client Listen server, local client+server Client only, no local server

Examples

usage:

Just like any other enum really.

simulated event PostBeginPlay()
{
	if(WorldInfo.NetMode != NM_DedicatedServer)
	{
		// Code here will only be executed on Listen servers and game clients.
	}
 
	if(WorldInfo.NetMode == NM_DedicatedServer)
	{
		// Code here will only be executed on a server.
	}
}

or similarly like in the Role and RemoteRole example:

simulated event PostBeginPlay()
{
	if (WorldInfo.NetMode < NM_DedicatedServer)
	{
		// Code here will only be executed on Listen servers and game clients.
	}
 
	if (WorldInfo.NetMode > NM_DedicatedServer)
	{
		// Code here will only be executed on a server or standalone client.
	}
}

Useful Replication Properties

UT3 actor.uc

// Networking flags
var			  const	bool	bNetTemporary;				// Tear-off simulation in network play.
var			  const	bool	bOnlyRelevantToOwner;			// this actor is only relevant to its owner. If this flag is changed during play, all non-owner channels would need to be explicitly closed.
var transient				bool	bNetDirty;				// set when any attribute is assigned a value in unrealscript, reset when the actor is replicated
var					bool	bAlwaysRelevant;			// Always relevant for network.
var					bool	bReplicateInstigator;		// Replicate instigator to client (used by bNetTemporary projectiles).
var					bool	bReplicateMovement;			// if true, replicate movement/location related properties
var					bool	bSkipActorPropertyReplication; // if true, dont replicate actor class variables for this actor
var					bool	bUpdateSimulatedPosition;	// if true, update velocity/location after initialization for simulated proxies
var					bool	bTearOff;					// if true, this actor is no longer replicated to new clients, and
														// is "torn off" (becomes a ROLE_Authority) on clients to which it was being replicated.
var					bool	bOnlyDirtyReplication;		// if true, only replicate actor if bNetDirty is true - useful if no C++ changed attributes (such as physics)
														// bOnlyDirtyReplication only used with bAlwaysRelevant actors
 
 
/** Demo recording variables */
var transient				bool	bDemoRecording;		/** set when we are currently replicating this Actor into a demo */
var transient				bool	bClientDemoRecording;	/** set when we are recording a clientside demo */
var transient				bool	bRepClientDemo;		/** set if remote client is recording a clientside demo */
var					bool	bDemoOwner;					// Demo recording driver owns this actor.
 
/** Should replicate initial rotation.  This property should never be changed during execution, as the client and server rely on the default value of this property always being the same. */
var const           bool    bNetInitialRotation;
 
/** If true, never replicate rotation */
var					bool	bNeverReplicateRotation;
 
var					bool	bReplicateRigidBodyLocation;	// replicate Location property even when in PHYS_RigidBody
var					bool	bKillDuringLevelTransition;	// If set, actor and its components are marked as pending kill during seamless map transitions
/** whether we already exchanged Role/RemoteRole on the client, as removing then readding a streaming level
 * causes all initialization to be performed again even though the actor may not have actually been reloaded
 */
var const				bool	bExchangedRoles;

booleans

• (Level.NetMode == NM_Client && bNetOwner) – owner clients (special case of client where the local player is the Owner of the actor in question)

UT2004

NetUpdateFrequency

NetUpdateFrequency is another variable useful in replication. It effectively causes an otherwise relevant (not useful when the actor is not relevant) actor to be relevant NetUpdateFrequency times per second. This is useful when the data changes frequently but you only want periodic updates. For example, PlayerReplicationInfo contains a lot of data about the client. Stuff like the various player's pings may change quite frequently, and having the client keep track of such information would be quite a network hog. But since PlayerReplicationInfo has a NetUpdateFrequency of 2, it is only updated twice a second, which is much nicer for that player's bandwidth. The list of the current NetUpdateFrequency's for all UT classes are listed below:

Actor - 100 Hz (times per second)
ZoneInfo - 4 Hz
GameReplicationInfo - 4 Hz
PlayerReplicationInfo - 2 Hz
Inventory - 8 Hz

• UE3:ReplicationInfo_(UT3)

• UE3:GameReplicationInfo_(UT3)
• UE3:PlayerReplicationInfo_(UT3)
• UE3:UTLinkedReplicationInfo_(UT3)

Related Topics

• Introduction To Replication
• Replication
• Replication Block
• Role and RemoteRole, and NetMode
• Netcode Idioms
• Replication Examples
• Replication De-Obfuscation

Wiki

Contributions

• Using the UT2004 Mod System

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