1. Getting an angle between ...
I never payed attention in any math class. So when I come across a problem like finding the angle between the shoulder elbow and hand I need to remember some basic math which I never really learned. As a kinect game developer, this is...
2. mysterious ? and : in Unr...
I saw a comment on the forums not long ago asking what a ? and : do in unreal script. I thought I’d write up a short tutorial with a few examples and how useful these little characters can be. ...
3. StaticMesh, the hard way,...
In unreal script there’s the defaultproperties where you can use Begin Object and then Components.Add(someObject). What is that doing exactly? lets do some stuff the hard way just to see how we can make our objects more dynamic. In a...
4. Reading UnrealScript, wha...
So we’ve covered a lot of the basics on functions. I thought I’d go through some of the cooler things that you might find useful in your own projects. To do this I thought that learning how to read code will be the most useful...
5. Updates coming soon.
So next week is a pretty big deadline for me. Been working solidly for the last few weeks on a project (all in unreal) for work. You’d think that I might be a bit burnt out, but in reality I’m learning so much about what I need...going to do some tutorial for network replication.
I’ve been hip deep in replication code getting multi-player working. It’s tricky but after a few tests it’s starting to make a lot more sense. The server and client run two...classy
hahaha almost...tall heatsink
I’m not sure but I might have to cut off the top of this heat sink to make it fit in the case...Making Time to Spare.
Its been my experience that finding time to do side projects is difficult at best but usually impossible when you work at a game studio. However there are a few things that ive learned to help make...motion controlers are not casual.
At all of the centers of attention at both the microsoft and sony keynote conferences at this years e3 are their motion controllers. Both of them are talking about their motion control devices as systems that...Setting up a QNAP!
TS-239 Pro II+ Turbo NAS tonight I’ll be setting up my TS-239 Pro II+ Turbo NAS for my UDK project. I’ll be getting Mercurial HG setup as well for project sharing. Wee! fun. The setup and use will...expecting some major updates for the new...
I’ll be doing a bunch of house keeping around here in the next year. new themes, new sections, and I’d like to do a bunch of stuff for the book and coming...Game Design
- American McGee Game Designer
- Oni2 A Fan site for a afn cretaed sequel to a game I worked on when I was at bungie
- Patrick Curry Senior Game Designer on Stranglehold (Bungie Alumni)
