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Mastering Unreal Technology: Introduction to Level Design with Unreal Engine 3 1st Edition

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Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume I: Introduction to Level Design with Unreal Engine 3 is your start-to-finish guide to modding and level design with the world’s hottest new gaming engine: Unreal Engine 3. Here’s everything you need to know to jumpstart your skills and create stunning new content and games for consoles and PCs alike! Your authors aren’t just the world’s #1 Unreal game development trainers: They’ve even built the training modules that shipped with Unreal Tournament 3: Limited Collector’s Edition. Now, working with the full cooperation of Unreal Engine 3’s creators, Epic Games, they introduce every facet of game development—from simple level creation to materials, lighting, and terrain...even advanced level optimization and streaming!

Packed with tips, hands-on tutorials, and expert techniques, Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume I is all you need to create levels that look spectacular and work brilliantly...levels that gamers just can’t stop playing!

You’ll find expert tips on

Understanding the game development process from start to finish
Planning projects for greater efficiency, faster delivery, and better quality
Crafting worlds with stunning beauty and clarity
Bringing amazing realism to characters, objects, and props
Making the most of Unreal Engine 3’s massively upgraded lighting system
Scripting complex gameplay quickly and easily with Unreal Kismet
Building animated game assets with Unreal Matinee
Testing game performance during live gameplay
Optimizing levels by improving the interaction between lights and surfaces
Using advanced level streaming to create vast, rich, highly playable levels

Winner of the Front Line Award for best game development book of 2009!

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Jason “Buzz” Busby is president and chief executive officer of 3D Buzz, Inc. For more than five years, he has taught 3D animation, programming, and game design through his website 3dbuzz.com, which has over 275,000 members. He coauthored Mastering Unreal: The Art of Level Design and Mastering the Art of Production with 3ds Max 4 and has created and overseen the production of more than 1,000 hours of video training.

Zak Parrish, chief of operations at 3D Buzz, Inc., has developed hundreds of video tutorials over 3D animation and game design. He helped produce training videos that shipped with Unreal Tournament 2004: Special Edition as well as those that shipped with Unreal Tournament 3: Limited Collector’s Edition. Zak also coauthored Mastering Unreal.

Jeff Wilson, 3D Buzz’s technical consultant for the Unreal Engine, helps develop the company’s Unreal Technology training videos. He has been studying the Unreal Engine for five years while creating modifications for Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004. Wilson moderates the 3D Buzz forums.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sams; 1st edition (July 15, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 889 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0672329913
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0672329913
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.38 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 1.75 x 9 inches

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Rob

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I've evaluated several 3D game engines, including XNA Game Studio 3 (ok for home enthusiasts), Torque 3D (not ready for prime time as of this writing), Unity (nice), Blender3D (ok for home enthusiasts), and Unreal Engine 3. The Unreal Engine UDK blows them away, although the Unity 3D Platformer is really quite good. You can't beat what you get with the Unreal Engine UDK, especially considering that its free. Some licensing rules apply if you actually create and sell a game.

I purchased this book in order to get a "head start" on developing applications with the Unreal Game Engine. I was very pleased with its contents. The examples in each chapter really drive home the benefits of using the Unreal Game Engine. I especially enjoyed the introductory chapter, the static meshes chapter, the material creation chapter, the terrain chapter, the Kismet chapter and the Matinee considerations chapter.

I downloaded the November and December Betas of the Unreal Development Kit (UDK). So if you do the same, be aware of the following differences.

1. When you copy a chapter's map to your Content directory, change its extension from ut3 to udk.
2. You will have some problems in Chapter 4: A Universe of Brushes. Some of the UT3 features (geometry modifiers for BSP extrusion, etc) are not in the UDK. You will not be able to extrude the capital and entablature on the columns in the temple. Don't waste time trying to figure out where they are, like I did. Unreal recommends using static meshes rather than BSP brushes to build your levels. So they've removed some of the modifiers from the UDK.
3. The property names in the book use Hungarian notation, but the UDK does not. Just remove the first character and you will find your property.
4. Every map needs a Killz setting. When you build your map you will get an error that the Killz setting is not initialized (something like that). So go to View/World Properties and expand Zone Info. You will see Kill Z as the first property. Set its value to something like -10000.
5. I had some issues with the Swarm, and ended up turning it off. I don't need to build my levels on multiple machines, and I didn't want to spend the time setting it up. So I disabled it.

That's it! Most of the examples in the book work as described. I'm very impressed with Kismet and Matinee. I think Autodesk could learn something here.

I can't wait to buy Volume 2: Advanced Level Design Concepts with Unreal Engine 3.

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Steven Cohmer

Another Excellent release from 3DBUZZ

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2010

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Mastering Unreal Technology volume 1: Introduction to Level Design with Unreal Engine 3 is another excellent book written by Busby and his team at 3DBuzz. If you developed modifications of UT2K4 chances are you watched the educational videos included with the ECE (Editor's choice edition) created by 3DBuzz. Mastering Unreal Technology Volume 1 is an in depth guide geared towards teaching novice and professional game developers as well as modification teams the intense architecture of the Unreal editor 3.

This book will transform you from an Unreal player into an Unreal game designer and is highly recommended for those interested in creating something Unreal.

Before purchasing or reviewing this book please keep in mind that it is geared towards the Unreal editor included in Unreal Tournament 3 and is not fully supportive of the Unreal Editor 2 (UT2K4, Unreal tournament 2004) or UDK (Unreal development Kit) technologies, Although, much of the information is completely relevant. This information includes basic technique, design skills as well as game planning and development stages.
We hope to see a UDK series of books from the 3DBuzz team soon.

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Great book!

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This book has been a great read and resource for helping me get my hands dirty with Unreal Editor 3.0. I am new to the engine, and honestly, this book has really helped give me the insight I need without straying off the beaten path. The information is great and the little tips are extremely helpful. I have searched and browsed through numerous tutorials and websites online, and this book has everything in it to get someone started!

My only complaint is that the illustrations are of average quality and not in color, and the problem with that is trying to see which edges or verts they have selected in the pictures. Sometimes, you can't even see what they have selected or what color they are referring to because of the black and white.

Besides that, great book!

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Robert A. Morin

Great companion book to the video tutorials

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2010

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I own both Volumes 1 and 2 of this series, and it is completely up to date, and has very accurate results in how to map for Unreal Tournament 3, and other Unreal Engine 3-based games that include the editor. Notice I said that these are "companion" books, since I mainly use this to follow along with the video tutorials, which are also done by these same authors (you can download the VTMs from FilePlanet). I have Volume 3 on preorder, but who knows what's gonna come of that? Anyway, if you have the video tutorials on top of this, more power to you. I believe that the VTMS can be played in the same order as the book. Always good to read the step-by-step first, then go back and watch it in action. Jeff Busby thought of everything with this. I liked him back when he was doing UT2003/4 tutorials and books, and I especially like that he did UT3 material now, so I can update my learning experience with mapping/modding in the new version of Unreal Tech.

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Do not buy used if you need the editor

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I just want to warn others: if you need the free copy of the Unreal editor that is supposed to come with the book, then do not buy this used. Even if it has the DVD with some other files with it, chances are it will not have the code you need to download the editor. Unfortunately, because my class didn't start using the editor until later in our course, I did not figure this out within the return period, or I would have returned my used copy and bought a new copy so that I would have the editor (I still might have to just sell it back and buy a new one, unless I can figure something else out).

You can actually download the free Unreal development kit, but it is different than what is shown in the book and has less features. For example, you will not be able to do the first tutorial at all, because it is not possible does not have a subtractive level mode.

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Its for Unreal Engine 2 not 3.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 7, 2010

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Hi. Ive been learning the unreal engine 3 for a few weeks. Ive downloaded video tutorials and read the forums and they have been excellent. I wanted a book for reference purpus and i saw this which looked good as it said its Mastering Unreal Technology Volume 1. Introducing to level design with "unreal engine 3". It turns out after doing the primer tutorial on making your first level it looks a bit different and uses different meanings for the content browser. In the book its called Generic Browser and other slightly different meanings for other things. It also uses Subtractive for a new level creation which in ALL the tutorials they use addivtive brush style. You do get Unreal Engine Tournament 3 with it and it uses that editor but i didnt want that i wanted to use the actual UDK Engine 3 editor whats just been released and this book is missleading.

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