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main idea - network of nodes,
March 3, 2012 This review is from: Unreal Development Kit Game Design Cookbook (Paperback)
Dig that cool name! The reality of this UDK is that its developers have incorporated much if not all of the essential steps you need to code your own game. A cursory appreciation of the book's topics shows a lot of capabilities that are amply documented by Mooney.
UDK has a variety of content generation tools. Letting you relatively quickly create unique landscapes as backdrops for your scenes. These can be improved further by terrain editing, where different "Materials" can be overlaid onto a Terrain region.
What is interesting about UDK is how the sheer complexity and number of processing steps has been simplified to a nice top level graphic view. Scattered throughout the text are various of these graphs. They show a directed network of connected nodes. Each node has [usually] one input and can have several outputs. The nodes can be clipped together by connected an output arrow to an input port of another node. A very nice intuitive approach that keys off...Read more
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