Unreal Tutorials

Note these tutorials have been written with various versions of the engine. Some things may look slightly different in your version.

UDK

• • UE3 FAQ: Frequently asked questions regarding UE3 (UT3/GOW/UDK).

  • Unreal Wiki: A nice collection of some tutorials, concepts, terminology, and articles regarding Unreal.

  • Unreal Developer's Network: Epic's wiki for all things UDK

Materials

• • Material Editor Basics - Part 1: Basic introduction to the new material editor plus examples on how to set up some of the most common materials.

  • Material Editor - Part 2: More material examples, slightly more complex.

  • Material Editor - Part 3: Complex material examples such as Cel Shading, a material based Distance Fog, and Vertex Color Texture Blending.

  • Material Editor - Expressions: A list of all available material expressions and their use plus a short introduction to the math behind a material.

  • Material Editor - In Depth - Water Outdoor: Advanced material tutorial on how to create a large outdoor water surface.

  • Material Editor - In Depth - Water Indoor: Advanced material tutorial on how to create a small indoor water surface.

  • Material Editor - Triggering Materials: How to change a material in real time plus basic Instanced Material example.

  • Efficient Water Ripples

Terrain

• • Terrain: How to create a Terrain in the engine, control the LOD'ing, paint materials, and bump up lighting quality.

Foliage

• • Foliage and Deco Layers: How to add Foliage and Deco Layers to a terrain in UE3.

  • The Foliage Volume: How to randomly scatter objects around on any type of surface.

Water

• • Adding Water To A Level: How to add a body of swimmable water to a level.

Modeling

• • UE3 Modeling - Basics: How to prepare a mesh for the engine, how to export and import it, how to batch export, and how to set up collision.

  • UE3 Modeling - Advanced: Common questions/answers, and advanced tips on mesh optimization within the engine.

  • Lightmapping Meshes In The Editor: How to set up lightmapping on a mesh.

  • Moving Geometry Basics: How to make an elevator, a simple loopmover, a continuously rotating mover, and how to attach one mover to another.

  • Fracture Meshes: How to make meshes that can be shot into pieces using the Fracture Mesh system

Lighting

• • LightMass:Introduction to using the LightMass system).

  • LightFunctions: What LightFunctions are and how to make one, plus an example of how to create a searchlight effect.

Cameras and reflections

• • Real Time Reflections And Cameras: How to create a real time reflection or camera..

  • Fog: An extensive look on fog in UE3. Distance fog, fog volumes, fog planes, animated fog, and so on.

FX

Particles

• • • Particle Editor Basics: Basics of the Cascade particle editor plus a smoke particle example.

Decals

• • Decals: How to use the Decal Actor in UE3.

Sound

• • Sound in UE3: How to add sound to an environment, plus the use of the Sound Cue editor explained.

Streaming Levels

• • Streaming Basics: Basics of streaming and the various way of setting it up.

User Interface

• • UIScenes: Creating a basic UIScene. Used to display text and images on the screen and anything else to do with the interface.

Cutscenes

• • Cutscenes: A simple cutscene that makes use of two different cameras, triggers an event along the way, and fades in and out.

Post Process Effects

• • Distance Color Blending

Physics

• • Physics: How to apply physics to a model in UE3.

  • Soft Physics: How to use soft physics in UE3 .

  • The Final Touches: How to add a music track and a preview screenshot for the menu to your UT3 level, and how to configure the ini file, plus a sample readme file.

  • The Making of Krodan: A simple tutorial showing the evolution of Krodan, an all custom content UT3 DM level.

  • The Making of The Spire: A simple tutorial showing the evolution of The Spire, a Gears Of War multiplayer level.

  • PHAT Asset Creation: Ssetup for a physics asset of an old medieval street light dangling from a rope.

Kismet

• • Kismet And Level Snippets: Pre-made level and script setups that can be copy-pasted into the editor - good for learning Kismet!

• How to get the Coordinates and Mesh information of anywhere you shoot

  • Car exploding with debris-Real Physics Explosions: a pdf showing how to make a car that can explode with debris through kismet

  • Some home-grown kismet scripts

UnrealScript

• • Creating an UDK Game: Setting up an entire game from scratch to end, for people with no programming experience or prior experience in Unreal - Note this tutorial is hosted on an external website.

• Creating an Kismet inventory node

  • index of problems and questions posted by script users (it's a wall of text practically but there's a lot of good info here if you're willing to sift through everything, the link at the top leads to the ut3 programming and unreal script forum)

  • UDN UDK Programming Hub - Most comprehensive guide to Unreal Script in UDK, brought to you by the Unreal Developer's Network. Links of interest follows:

    • Vehicles Technical Guide - All the UnrealScript information behind vehicles, some tips and tricks for getting certain effects as well.

    • Setting Up Vehicles - Information on rigging, damage states, and preparing a vehicle for use in-engine

  • Another Vehicle Tutorial

    • Weapons Technical Guide - Similar to Vehicles guide, provides an understanding of the underlying architecture behind Weapons in Unreal.

Unorganized/By User

• • Raven67854 a playlist from a user who works for API Studios with a comprehensive introduction to UDK basics.

  • Gizmosan has a few really interesting video tutorials dealing with some of the issues raised right now in scripting: destructible meshes, particle effects, environment effects, etc.

  • Chris Albeluhn has a list of some comprehensive but specific tutorials that deal with some very intricate parts of unreal.

  • Tutorials by AVLD, professional senior level designer at Kaos Studios.

  • Matt Oztalay, GAD '11 with a growing list of tutorials.

  • UDK Tutorials, Trendy Entertainment's UDK tutorial channel on Youtube.