Resources for UnrealScript

Question

Now that the Unreal Development Kit is out and free to use by anyone, I am pretty excited to try it out. My understanding is that the programming is done through scripting in UnrealScript, I am wondering if any of you guys know of any good articles, tutorials, books, and references for Unreal Script or the Unreal Development Kit.

Documentation

• UnrealScript Reference for Unreal Engine 3
• UnrealScript at UnrealWiki

Tools

• nFringe - Visual Studio editor and debugger for UnrealScript
  • Setting up an nFringe UDK project
  • Testing: New support for building scripts with nFringe
• WOTgreal - the editing tool for the Unreal® Engine
  • The current development version supports UDK
• UnCodeX - UnrealScript Swiss Army Knife

Tutorials

• Chimeric - Coding tutorials

Video Tutorials

• 3D Buzz Video Tutorials

Answer 1

This was my first introduction to UnrealScript, written by the author and programmer himself, Tim Sweeney:

• UnrealScript Language Reference

It gives a high-level overview of the language and the intentions behind its design.

Answer 2

There really isn't that much out there, the best way to learn is by looking through the source code of UT3 and mods for it. I'd recommend exporting script from the .u files (don't have a link on me at the moment) so that you can see the code from all of the Make Something Unreal Contest mods.

Download the latest UT3 source code here: http://udn.epicgames.com/Files/UT3/Mods/UT3ScriptSource_1.5.rar

There's also a handy program called "UnCodeX" that makes it easy to trace unrealscript code. uncodex.elmuerte.com

There's an option for html output too, which I have a copy of (although it's not the absolute latest version, it's pretty recent) on my site: http://www.aaronash.com/ut3/UT3_UnCodex_v1.3/

The UT3 source code should be plenty for you to learn off of however, good luck!

Answer 3

The mailing lists are also very useful, they can be found in udn.epicgames.com

Answer 4

Here are some really useful tutorials for UDK:

1. http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=711261 - Basic Kismet (Useful for basic game functions you don't want to script out.
2. http://www.toltecstudios.com/theball/tutorialudk.htm - Setting you script, etc, etc. No scripting is shown here.
3. http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=711084 - Integrating you UScripts in Kismet.
4. http://dl.deathtouchstudios.com/videotutorials/UnrealScriptSeries/ - Videos about UnrealScript. These ones are just awesome!!!