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Platform Compatibility: Windows and Mac

Skill Level:

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Creating an Outdoor Terrain with UDK - Part 1 of 3

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Platform Compatibility: Windows

Skill Level:

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Creating an Outdoor Terrain with UDK - Part 2 of 3

First Person Shooters > UDK

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Platform Compatibility: Windows

Skill Level:

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Create Your Own Ringtone for the iPhone with iTunes

Everything Else > Making Ringtones

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Creating a Vehicle Capture The Flag Level in UDK

First Person Shooters > UDK

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Platform Compatibility: Windows

Skill Level:

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Make Yourself Into a Zombie with Photoshop

Graphic Design > Photoshop®

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Color Correction in After Effects

Special FX > After Effects®

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Platform Game Programming and Side-Scrolling

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Armor, Ammunition, Health and Weapons in UDK Games - Part 1 of 3

First Person Shooters > UDK

When making UDK games, we don't want to overlook the objects necessary to increase the life of each match. This video demonstrates how to add armor, ammunition, and health to your UDK games.

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Game Sprites and the Animation Editor in Fusion

Video Game Design > Multimedia Fusion®

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First Person Shooters > UDK

This video demonstrates how to add weapons in UDK.

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Armor, Ammunition, Health and Weapons in UDK Games - Part 3 of 3

First Person Shooters > UDK

In this video, the theoretical "gravitational pull" of each object is discussed.

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Title Animation in After Effects

Special FX > After Effects®

This tutorial will cover creating a title, changing it's color and stroke, and applying animation presets to the text in After Effects.

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Green Screen Compositing in After Effects

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Basic Green Screen Compositing using Keylight in Adobe After Effects.

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Lightning Effect in After Effects

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How to create a digital lightning effect in Adobe After Effects.

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Static Meshes, Foliage, Buildings, and Creativity in UDK - Part 1 of 3

First Person Shooters > UDK

Some of the most important elements a designer includes on a map are the objects that the player doesn't directly interact with. These objects, known in the UDK as "static meshes," define what type of area the player is fighting in. These objects also define what the player is fighting over. This video demonstrates how to add static meshes.

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Teleporter Effect in After Effects

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Static Meshes, Foliage, Buildings, and Creativity in UDK - Part 2 of 3

First Person Shooters > UDK

This video demonstrates how to add foliage to your UDK level.

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Static Meshes, Foliage, Buildings, and Creativity in UDK - Part 3 of 3

First Person Shooters > UDK

This video demonstrates how to create custom buildings with static meshes in your exterior level.

Tutorial Type: Video

Platform Compatibility: Windows

Skill Level:

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Water Volumes, Blocking Volumes and Trigger Volumes in UDK - Part 1 of 3

First Person Shooters > UDK

Volumes are used to make the game change without the player being able to see the change. By using volumes, we are able to trigger events, add water, force the player to crouch, or even prevent the player from walking into an area. This video demonstrates how to add in water volumes.

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Video Communicator Watch Effect in After Effects

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Water Volumes, Blocking Volumes and Trigger Volumes in UDK - Part 2 of 3

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Volumes are used to make the game change without the player being able to see the change. Using volumes, we can trigger events, add water, force the player to crouch, or even prevent the player from walking into an area. This covers how to create blocking volumes.

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First Person Shooters > UDK

Volumes are used to make the game change without the player being able to see the change. Using volumes, we can trigger events, add water, force the player to crouch, or even prevent the player from walking into an area. This video demonstrates how to add in trigger volumes so the moving doors work.

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Doors, Teleporters and Jump Pads in UDK - Part 1 of 3

First Person Shooters > UDK

We may not always want the player to have to walk across large areas of land. In order to get players to different areas faster, we can add in a variety of objects: teleporters, jump pads, or moving doors. In this lesson, we will demonstrate how to add in teleporters.

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Platform Compatibility: Windows

Skill Level:

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Doors, Teleporters and Jump Pads in UDK - Part 2 of 3

First Person Shooters > UDK

This lesson will demonstrate how to add jump pads in UDK.

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Platform Compatibility: Windows

Skill Level:

  • Everyone
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Doors, Teleporters and Jump Pads in UDK - Part 3 of 3

First Person Shooters > UDK

In this lesson, we will demonstrate how to add in working doors with Kismet in UDK.

Tutorial Type: Video

Platform Compatibility: Windows

Skill Level:

  • Everyone
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Creating SpeedTrees in UDK: Modeling and Compiling - Part 1 of 3

First Person Shooters > UDK

This video demonstrates how to create a basic SpeedTree. We have to model and compile the trees so that they can be loaded into the UDK, and we'll be starting with the first step in the creation of custom trees.

Tutorial Type: Video

Platform Compatibility: Windows

Skill Level:

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Creating SpeedTrees in UDK: Modeling and Compiling - Part 2 of 3

First Person Shooters > UDK

This tutorial is part of a series. Make sure to begin with Part One, where you can download the files needed to complete this series of tutorials. Tree Huggers Need Not Apply As cool as that was, it's difficult to make an environment seem extraterrestrial if the trees look, well, terrestrial. You know what that [...]

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Skill Level:

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Creating SpeedTrees in UDK: Modeling and Compiling - Part 3 of 3

First Person Shooters > UDK

This video demonstrates how to compile the tree.

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Platform Compatibility: Windows

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Creating SpeedTrees in UDK: Importing - Part 1 of 3

First Person Shooters > UDK

Now that we've created our SpeedTrees, we have to import them into the UDK and make them work. This lesson will demonstrate how to properly import the files into the UDK.

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Creating SpeedTrees in UDK: Importing - Part 2 of 3

First Person Shooters > UDK

Now that we've created our SpeedTrees, we have to import them into the UDK and make them work. This lesson will demonstrate how to create the materials necessary for the SpeedTree.

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Platform Compatibility: Windows

Skill Level:

  • Everyone
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Creating SpeedTrees in UDK: Importing - Part 3 of 3

First Person Shooters > UDK

Now that we've created our SpeedTrees, we have to import them into the UDK and make them work. This lesson will demonstrate how to attach the materials to the SpeedTree and place the SpeedTree into the world.

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Platform Compatibility: Windows

Skill Level:

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Finalizing and Producing your Death Match level in UDK - Part 2 of 2

First Person Shooters > UDK

We can export our map into a mode that can be played by our friends, even if they don't have the UDK! Let's walk through the process.

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