Unreal Engine

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  virtual machine similar to the  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

• 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

• Unreal Engine Versions
• UnrealEd Versions

Files

• Engine directory structure
• Package extension catalog
• File Formats

General

• 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

• [Collision Detection]?
• PhysicsType

Suggested Overview Topics

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

Discussion

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.