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Unreal Development Kit Beginner's Guide

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849690522
Pages 244 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Richard Moore Richard Moore
Profile icon Richard Moore

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Unreal Development Kit 3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
1. Level Design HQ 2. Hello UDK 3. Applying Lighting Effects 4. Battling the Elements 5. Movement with Movers 6. Terrain 7. Adding Gameplay Elements into your Map 8. Complex Event Sequences 9. Materials Index

What is a material?


A material, in essence, is a small computer program that describes how a surface looks. There's a lot we can do with our surfaces. Look around you; the world isn't just covered with flat paint.

Effects are easy to achieve with the Unreal material system, for instance, here's the material for a metal barrel. You can see in the preview on the left that it has a base color, shiny highlights, and ridges and bumps that bring out details in the surface. The node network in the middle is what describes how the surface looks, and that's what you're going to learn to build.

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