October 2004
Beginner
464 pages
13h 42m
English
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Add a Vehicle to Unreal Tournament 2004
Add a new object type to an existing game, for standalone play or as part of new content.
Earlier, we created and imported a car model into UnrealEd to use in
Unreal
Tournament 2004 (
[Hack #82]
). Now
it’s time to take that model (the 1969 Plymouth
Barracuda from Clone Bandits, http://www.demiurgestudios.com/CloneBandits/)
and turn it into an Actor that can be placed in a
map, driven around, and used in game types such as Onslaught. The
obvious next step is to enhance the ‘Cuda by adding
nitrous-style speed boosts (
[Hack #84]
).
Tip
You can download the source code mentioned in this hack as well as the art packages necessary to use this example from http://www.demiurgestudios.com/CudaExample/.
Creating a Class for the ‘Cuda
To make the ‘Cuda its own object or
Actor in the world of Unreal, you need to create a
class for it in UnrealScript. UnrealScript is a full-featured
programming language “created to provide the
development team and the third-party Unreal developers with a
powerful, built-in programming language that maps naturally onto the
needs and nuances of game programming.”[18] You can find many UnrealScript references on the Web. Two
good ones are http://udn.epicgames.com/Two/UnrealScriptReference
and http://udn.epicgames.com/Two/MyFirstCode.
To create a new class, you first need to create a new UnrealScript
package. From your Unreal Tournament 2004 directory (generally
C:\UT2004), create a new directory. The name of this directory ...
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