Unreal Engine

The Unreal Engine is the core software at the heart of UT, UT2003 and other games.

It has a two-tier structure:

1. the  C++ code, which in Unreal we call the "native" stuff. This handles all the low-level stuff and platform-specific things. It runs a  virtual machine similar to the  Java virtual machine, on which runs...
2. the UnrealScript stuff. This is an object-oriented language that looks similar to Java or Javascript.

Most work with the engine is done in UnrealScript.

Overview

• Key Engine Concepts to get you started
• Terminology - the Unreal engine dictionary
• Taking Damage - how it works
• Controller Overview
• Mutator Topics

Suggested topics that need an "overview" page:

• Game Info
• Player Info
• Weapons
• Interaction
• Bots
• HUD
• GUIs
• Replication
• Game Event Flow

Versions

• Unreal Engine Versions
• UnrealEd Versions

Files

• Engine directory structure
• Package extension catalog
• File Formats

General

• Console Commands
• Game Ini File
• Compiling with UCC / Compiler Errors
• MyLevel pseudo-package – storing resources into maps
• BSP Tree – Really technical, intuitive, but generalized description
• Unreal Engine Core – Preliminary, hypothetical, I think we need Divine Intervention here...
• OOP Overview – How it works in the unreal engine
• OCD – Object Collision Detection in UT.
• Replication – Unreal netcode
• Terminology – Abbreviations, acronyms and technical terms
• Server Query In Perl
• Karma
• Skeletal Mesh: How to control animations and individual bones from UnrealScript

Object Physics

• Collision Detection
• PhysicsType
• Suggested Topics: Kinematics, Classical Dynamics Theory for Rigid Bodies, Interpolation, Modeling, Particle Animation, Algorithms.