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Allar’s Dev Diary #8: Scaleform and UDK   7 comments

Posted June 2, 2010 by Allar in Dev Diary, Unreal

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Allar’s Dev Diary #7: Animated Static Mesh   Leave a comment

Hey… animated static meshes, what? I’ll just leave this here….

http://www.forecourse.com/unreal/UDKBreathingStaticMesh/UDKBreathingStaticMesh.mp4

Posted May 28, 2010 by Allar in Dev Diary, Unreal

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Allar’s Dev Diary #5: Public LAN Port Scanner   3 comments

Yup. Its a quick and dirty LAN port scanner. If you need one binded into UnrealScript, here you go, if not, move along.

With the binded DLL, you can scan your network for any open ports, given the port to hunt for.

If your game server is on port 7777 (which is what I use, you can set this by the ?port=7777 option on your servers command line or in your config files by Port=7777) and you do a lan scan on port 7777, it will find your server and store its IP address in an array of IPs that will also contain any other game servers on port 7777 on your same subnet mask.

Because it essentially is just a port scanner, it doesn’t do anything fancy, and can create false positives if you have another service on the same port responding to udp communication.

Hopefully the included documentation within the code and the video below will be enough for you to use it.

I will be releasing more and more features for it when it becomes more and more refined and awesome.

Download here. If you would like to link to these files, please link to this page and not the files directly.

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Posted May 4, 2010 by Allar in Dev Diary, Unreal

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Allar’s Dev Diary #4: Custom Character + Weapon Assets   Leave a comment

Just some custom assets I’ve assembled/created and implemented into my code. They should be replaced with proper artist assets later on but its more of a demonstration of a custom weapon that reloads, animates, plays sound, etc without any ut classes.

Posted May 4, 2010 by Allar in Dev Diary, Unreal

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HTWeapon: Part 3 – Creating A Muzzle Flash   5 comments

Video Version

Subject: HTWeapon: HTWeapon: Part 3 – Creating A Muzzle Flash
Skill Level: Beginner
Run-Time: 1 Hour
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: How to implement a ParticleSystem to use as a muzzle flash for your weapon.

Streaming:     720×480 1920×1080

Download:     Low-Res (156MB) Hi-Res (226MB)

Written Version

Subject: HTWeapon: Part 3 – Creating A Muzzle Flash
Skill Level: Beginner
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: How to implement a ParticleSystem to use as a muzzle flash for your weapon.

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Posted March 25, 2010 by Allar in Unreal

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HTWeapon: Part 2 – DrawWeaponCrosshair()   12 comments

Important: I didn’t notice this until after I posted this but my stuttering is pretty bad in this video. Just a heads up. I will re-do this in the future.

Video Version

Subject: HTWeapon: Part 2 – DrawWeaponCrosshair()
Skill Level: Beginner
Run-Time: 30 minutes
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: Going over how to have our weapons handle the drawing of our crosshair.

Streaming:     720×480 1920×1080

Download:     Low-Res (111MB) Hi-Res (160MB)

Written Version

Subject: HTWeapon: Part 2 – DrawWeaponCrosshair()
Skill Level: Beginner
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: Going over how to have our weapons handle the drawing of our crosshair.

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Posted March 19, 2010 by Allar in Unreal

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Introduction   2 comments

Extended Audio Version

A .mp3 of me rambling about what I’m doing.

Brief Written Version

I am Michael Allar, and I am Lead Programmer for The Hunt, a game being developed under a student group at The Art Institute of Orange County by the name of queSPECK.

My goal here with my site is to create a tutorial series that will show one how to start from scratch and to end up with a playable result, teaching them what they need to know along the way to implement their own designs.

I highly recommend using the February build when following these tutorials, as long the way you will migrate to March and any other future builds that may come out during this process. However you can start with what ever version you want, there just might be a few things you need to rework in some parts.

Posted March 16, 2010 by Allar in Unreal

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Migrating From February to March   4 comments

Video Version

Subject: Migrating From February to March
Skill Level: Beginner
Run-Time: 30 Minutes
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: Migrating our code base from Feb. to March.

Streaming:     720×480 1920×1080

Download:     Low-Res (117MB) Hi-Res (167MB)

Written Version

Subject: Migrating From February to March
Skill Level: Beginner
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: Migrating our code base from Feb. to March.

See video for an in-depth explanation. Sorry about the indentation, it seems like my indentation will not survive copy paste… D: I will create a written tutorial soon.

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Posted March 16, 2010 by Allar in Unreal

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HTHUD: Part 1 – Building The Base Class + Displaying Ammo   10 comments

Video Version

Subject: HTHUD: Part 1 – Building The Base Class + Displaying Ammo
Skill Level: Beginner
Run-Time: 1 Hour and 30 Minutes
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: Creating a new HUD class and having it display our current weapons ammo.

Streaming:     720×480 1920×1080

Download:     Low-Res (236MB) Hi-Res (337MB)

Video Update 3/25/2010

Run-Time: 2 Minutes
Notes: Fixes chat messages not displaying.

Streaming:     720×480

Download:     Low-Res (7MB)

Written Version

Subject: HTHUD: Part 1 – Building The Base Class + Displaying Ammo
Skill Level: Beginner
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: Creating a new HUD class and having it display our current weapons ammo.

See video for an in-depth explanation. Sorry about the indentation, it seems like my indentation will not survive copy paste… D: I will create a written tutorial soon.

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Posted March 10, 2010 by Allar in Unreal

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HTWeapon: Part 1 – Adding Ammo   46 comments

Video Version

Subject: HTWeapon: Part 1 – Adding Ammo
Skill Level: Beginner
Run-Time: 30 minutes
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: How to implement a very basic ammo system in our custom weapon class, taking code from UTWeapon.

Streaming:     720×480 1920×1080

Download:     Low-Res (66MB) Hi-Res (200MB)

Written Version

Subject: HTWeapon: Part 1 – Adding Ammo
Skill Level: Beginner
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: How to implement a very basic ammo system in our custom weapon class, taking code from UTWeapon.

See video for an in-depth explanation. Sorry about the indentation, it seems like my indentation will not survive copy paste… D:

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Posted March 9, 2010 by Allar in Unreal

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