It’s really just a simple sphere you can control with the standard WSAD controls and a camera looking down on the object as it moves around the level. Good thing is, it’s all self coded and I’ve got to grips with the language. Hopefully I’ll be able to make the levels a bit more interesting now.

Anyway, check the video here.

Raven has kindly put a tutorial on YouTube here, which details creating a fluid surface, setting it up so you can swim in it and also touches on post processing effects.

It’s very well put together and the effects you can achieve are pretty effective!

The general concept of the game is the player controls a ball and guides it around levels from start to finish, avoiding obstacles and overcoming puzzles. With this being my first project using UnrealScript and the newly released UDK, it will mainly be a learning excerise just to mess around with it and find what it can do. So far i’m pretty pleased with the UDK, its map editor is very intuitive and allows for fast map creation using BSP techniques and also includes a wide range of static meshes, useful for someone like me who can’t work a 3D artwork package into doing what I want, it also picks up on the scripts you’ve created to let the map editor literally drag and drop your custom elements into the map.

Just to keep track of my progress and hopefully help me better understand how the UDK works, i’ll be posting up a tutorial in the next few days detailing on how the scripts and map was created. In the meantime check out the tutorial section for some of the guides i’ve stumbled across while looking for information regarding the UDK.
Have a good holiday!

Check it out here,  just think that the UDK does it all for us pretty much..

Also, some need to have references are here, The book “GPU Gems” is pretty much just that.

Just take a look at the list of contributors and you’ll see why.

GPU Gems includes contributors from:

You can download it from here (Direct Link)

Personally I’ll be looking over this code to hopefully develop something out of my own ideas. I’ll keep the site updated with my progress.

Dan.

You can find it on the epic forums here.

In the tutorial it uses an add-on for Visual Studio 2005/8 called nFringe (Link to download), a guide for setting that up is found here.

My name is Danny Goodayle, I’m currently studying for a Computing with Game Development degree at Greenwich University. I’ve been a software developer for 2 years professionally aswell as many years tinkering around with code when I was growing up.

Anyway enough about me, Epic Games, the creator of the Unreal Engine has recently made the Unreal Development kit available to the public, for non-commercial use that is, the licence information is here. If you dont know what the Unreal Engine is you can check out its features here.

The software developed using the UDK ranges from Gears of War to Whizzle. So basically, It’s a very powerful kit with many features. Over the next few days I’ll be messing around with the UDK and posting up anything that I find.

Dan.