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Return to Book Page. Zak Parrish ,. Jeff Wilson. This is the eBook version of the printed book. Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume I: Introduction to Level Design with Unreal Engine 3 is your start-to-finish guide to modding and level design with the world's hottest new gaming engine: Unreal Engine 3. Here's everything you need t This is the eBook version of the printed book. Here's everything you need to know to jumpstart your skills and create stunning new content and games for consoles and PCs alike!

Your authors aren't just the world's 1 Unreal game development trainers: They've even built the training modules that shipped with Unreal Tournament 3: Limited Collector's Edition. Now, working with the full cooperation of Unreal Engine 3's creators, Epic Games, they introduce every facet of game development-from simple level creation to materials, lighting, and terrain Packed with tips, hands-on tutorials, and expert techniques, Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume I is all you need to create levels that look spectacular and work brilliantly You'll find expert tips on Understanding the game development process from start to finish Planning projects for greater efficiency, faster delivery, and better quality Crafting worlds with stunning beauty and clarity Bringing amazing realism to characters, objects, and props Making the most of Unreal Engine 3's massively upgraded lighting system Scripting complex gameplay quickly and easily with Unreal Kismet Building animated game assets with Unreal Matinee Testing game performance during live gameplay Optimizing levels by improving the interaction between lights and surfaces Using advanced level streaming to create vast, rich, highly playable levels Get A Copy.

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If two or more events occur at the same time, the most important event is processed first. Otherwise, input is processed on a First In, First Out basis.

As each event is processed, the game engine components that must react to the event are notified. Page 21 begins a section of the chapter that introduces new terms , as they apply to building a game or a game level in the Unreal 3 engine.

The text goes on to describe two kinds of mesh assets used in games: Static Meshes and Skeletal Meshes. A static mesh is used for objects in a scene, while a skeletal mesh is used for a character. A big difference is that a skeletal mesh must be rigged fitted with an animatable skeleton before it is imported into the game because it is meant to be animated.

The animation of a skeletal mesh is accomplished by animating the associated skeleton. Static meshes are used for non-character objects, and they are meant to be used in the game as instances. The first time an instanced object is used in the game, it takes up the most graphic memory, storing the entire image.

Each subsequent instance just refers to the initially stored image, and only requires that the graphics engine specify where in the scene to put the new copy, and how to deploy it e. The text warns that you can make a new static mesh for each object in a scene, but it is a bad idea because you can run out of memory that way. Meshes will be constructed in 3DS Max in our classroom, and texture files will be made with Photoshop. Once the asset files exist, we can bring them into a game level with the Unreal Editor, described on page Objectives important to this lesson: What is Unreal?

Unreal engine and components Game components Concepts : The chapter begins with by introducing the topic of the book: the Unreal 3 Game Engine. Graphics Engine - the part that sends signals to the computer's graphics card. The text introduces that idea that if an object occludes blocks the view of another object, the graphics engine will choose not to render the blocked portion of the occluded object. Sound Engine - processes the sounds played as part of the game, including music , sound effects , and dialog Physics Engine - the text notes that the Unreal 3 engine uses NVIDIA's PhysX physics engine to calculate how objects react when they collide, and what sounds the collisions should produce.