HTWeapon: Part 4 - Creating a Dynamic Muzzle Flash Light

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Subject: HTWeapon: Part 4 - Creating a Dynamic Muzzle Flash Light
Skill Level: Beginner
Run-Time: 17 minutes
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: How to implement a UDKExplosionLight for your muzzle flash so that your gun will light up its surroundings when fired.

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Written Version

Subject: HTWeapon: Part 4 - Creating a Dynamic Muzzle Flash Light
Skill Level: Beginner
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: How to implement a UDKExplosionLight for your muzzle flash so that your gun will light up its surroundings when fired.

HTWeapon: Part 3 – Creating A Muzzle Flash

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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.

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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.

HTWeapon: Part 2 – DrawWeaponCrosshair()

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.

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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.

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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.

HTHUD: Part 1 - Building The Base Class + Displaying Ammo

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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.

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Video Update 3/25/2010

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

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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.

HTWeapon: Part 1 - Adding Ammo

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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.

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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:

Adding an M16: Part 2.5 – Dummy Rigging

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Subject: Adding an M16: Part 2.5 – Dummy Rigging
Skill Level: Beginner
Run-Time: 10 minutes
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: Rigging a temporary M16 slug model to use for testing purposes using dummy objects.

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Click here to continue to Part 3:  Preparing Model For Implementaton

Adding an M16: Part 2 – Geometry Rigging

Important Note:

During the video, I mention that all weapons point down the Y axis. I was basing this knowledge off of the Shock Rifle, which turns out is coded to be rotated to be facing down the X axis like the Rocket Launcher. Your model can face down any axis in 3DS Max, but make sure that after you import it that it faces down the X axis using the Rot Origin properties. You can leave it facing in the Y axis if you want, as adjusting the rotation in the weapon's code is also really easy to do too and I will go over how to do so in the code part of this tutorial series.

Video Version

Subject: Adding an M16: Part 2 – Geometry Rigging
Skill Level: Beginner
Run-Time: 21 minutes
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: Rigging a temporary M16 slug model to use for testing purposes.

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Click here to continue to Part 2.5:  Dummy Rigging (Optional)

Click here to continue to Part 3:  Preparing Model For Implementation

Written Version

Subject: Adding an M16: Part 2 – Geometry Rigging
Skill Level: Beginner
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: Rigging a temporary M16 slug model to use for testing purposes.
Prerequisites: UDK, 3DS Max, ActorX

Adding an M16: Part 1 - Modeling

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Subject: Adding an M16: Part 1 - Modeling
Skill Level: Beginner
Run-Time: 21 minutes
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: A temporary M16 slug model to use for testing purposes.

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Click here to continue to Part 2: Rigging