Beginning Your UDK Game: Tools Setup

Hello reader! Whether or not you are brand new to programming in general, programming with UDK, this will set you up with the tools you need to have to make awesome!

At the end of this tutorial, you will have:

  1. A copy of the Unreal Development Kit installed (at the time of writing, version Dec. 2011)
  2. Visual Studio 2010 with Version 1862.1 or higher of Visual Assist X installed with UnrealScript auto-complete
  • Or Wotgreal if you do not have access to Visual Studio 20103. UnCodeX for browsing UnrealScript code
  1. Everything set up for you to begin a new game project!
    Things you will need to download:

  2. The Unreal Development Kit

  3. Visual Studio 2010 (or Wotgreal)

  4. Version 1862.1 of Visual Assist X (if using Visual Studio 2010) You must use Version 1862.1 or higher of Visual Assist X

  5. UnCodeX

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    This video comes in two flavors. The first video is for people who are brand new or have no idea whats going on:

This second video is a much shorter rapid fire approach to the above, and is either for those without patience or who already know what they are doing but would just like to get Visual Assist X working properly: