Allar's AWESOME Blog http://forecourse.com Life as an unresolved external symbol. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:36:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Hunt – TV Interview http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AllarsAwesomeBlog/~3/etRnp7k8TBw/ http://forecourse.com/2010/07/the-hunt-tv-interview/#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:36:31 +0000 Allar http://forecourse.com/?p=625 Project Lead for The Hunt, a student based game project I am currently Technical Director/Lead Programmer of, recently did a bit for Time Warner Cable. I’m the guy with the long and rattly hair lurking in the occasional shot. No true official coverage of me, mainly because programming just makes some boring television.

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]]> http://forecourse.com/2010/07/the-hunt-tv-interview/feed/ 0 http://forecourse.com/2010/07/the-hunt-tv-interview/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Making A Menu: ScaleForm Tutorial Series http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AllarsAwesomeBlog/~3/xOdCWTNV3z4/ http://forecourse.com/2010/06/making-a-menu-scaleform-tutorial-series/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:34:34 +0000 Allar http://forecourse.com/?p=610 Hello thar! ScaleForm tutorials seem to be the latest craze so I’ve decided to make a series in regards to making a menu in ScaleForm.

You can view the final result of this series here.

There are two sets of videos depending on your skill with flash, if you are new to flash check out this series:

Part 1: Making a Menu: Setting Up ScaleForm for Flash
Part 2: Making a Menu: Installing ForecourseUI for ScaleForm and UDK
Part 3: Making a Menu: Scaleform + Forecourse UI Components Part 1
Part 4: Making a Menu: Scaleform + Forecourse UI Components Part 2
Part 5: Making a Menu: Adding Button Functionality
Part 6: Making a Menu: Adding Button Functionality Part 2
Part 7: Making a Menu: Basic Kismet Integration
Part 8: Making a Menu: FSCommands + Animating the Camera
Part 9: Making a Menu: Kismet + ForecourseUI Camera Helper
Part 10: Making a Menu: Adding a Cursor
Part 11: Making a Menu: Finished! Heres Some More Info

If you are already experienced with Flash and have ScaleForm installed, or only want to spend 30 minutes learning how to do this, follow this shorter series:

Part 1: Making A Menu: Installing ForecourseUI for ScaleForm and UDK — 6 Minutes
Part 2: Making A Menu: Fast: Building the Flash Menu Part 1 — 8 Minutes
Part 3: Making A Menu: Fast: Building the Flash Menu Part 2 — 3 Minutes
Part 4: Making A Menu: Fast: Integration with Unreal (Still Uploading) — 9 Minutes

Link to ForecourseUI Download: http://forecourse.com/udk-development/

Note: For some reason my youtube playlist has things a bit out of order but I re-ordered the videos… I suppose it takes time for it to update that I suppose.

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]]> http://forecourse.com/2010/06/thank-you-donators/feed/ 2 http://forecourse.com/2010/06/thank-you-donators/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Allar’s Dev Diary #8: Scaleform and UDK http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AllarsAwesomeBlog/~3/MtMg3B_I3gc/ http://forecourse.com/2010/06/allars-dev-diary-8-scaleform-and-udk/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:19:25 +0000 Allar http://forecourse.com/?p=601

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]]> http://forecourse.com/2010/06/allars-dev-diary-8-scaleform-and-udk/feed/ 7 http://forecourse.com/2010/06/allars-dev-diary-8-scaleform-and-udk/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Allar’s Dev Diary #7: Animated Static Mesh http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AllarsAwesomeBlog/~3/blXY_sR1UxM/ http://forecourse.com/2010/05/allars-dev-diary-7-animated-static-mesh/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 10:59:06 +0000 Allar http://forecourse.com/?p=597 Hey… animated static meshes, what? I’ll just leave this here….

http://www.forecourse.com/unreal/UDKBreathingStaticMesh/UDKBreathingStaticMesh.mp4

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]]> http://forecourse.com/2010/05/allars-dev-diary-7-animated-static-mesh/feed/ 0 http://forecourse.com/2010/05/allars-dev-diary-7-animated-static-mesh/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Allar’s Dev Diary #6: Basic Level http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AllarsAwesomeBlog/~3/8dmM3yyL_Fg/ http://forecourse.com/2010/05/allars-dev-diary-6-basic-level/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 08:31:22 +0000 Allar http://forecourse.com/?p=595 Building a level for my Advanced Level Design class. I’m a programmer so the assets are…. well, yeah.

Anyways, heres the video if you are interested.

http://www.forecourse.com/unreal/TwoRivers3Days/TwoRivers3Days.html

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]]> http://forecourse.com/2010/05/allars-dev-diary-6-basic-level/feed/ 1 http://forecourse.com/2010/05/allars-dev-diary-6-basic-level/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Allar’s Dev Diary #5: Public LAN Port Scanner http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AllarsAwesomeBlog/~3/t6CLnuHp2tM/ http://forecourse.com/2010/05/allars-dev-diary-5-public-lan-port-scanner/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 21:29:46 +0000 Allar http://forecourse.com/?p=588 Yup. Its a quick and dirty LAN port scanner. If you need one binded into UnrealScript, here you go, if not, move along.

With the binded DLL, you can scan your network for any open ports, given the port to hunt for.

If your game server is on port 7777 (which is what I use, you can set this by the ?port=7777 option on your servers command line or in your config files by Port=7777) and you do a lan scan on port 7777, it will find your server and store its IP address in an array of IPs that will also contain any other game servers on port 7777 on your same subnet mask.

Because it essentially is just a port scanner, it doesn’t do anything fancy, and can create false positives if you have another service on the same port responding to udp communication.

Hopefully the included documentation within the code and the video below will be enough for you to use it.

I will be releasing more and more features for it when it becomes more and more refined and awesome.

Download here. If you would like to link to these files, please link to this page and not the files directly.

Allar’s Server Browser (55)
Allar’s Server Browser – Bare (45)

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]]> http://forecourse.com/2010/05/allars-dev-diary-5-public-lan-port-scanner/feed/ 1 http://forecourse.com/2010/05/allars-dev-diary-5-public-lan-port-scanner/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Allar’s Dev Diary #4: Custom Character + Weapon Assets http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AllarsAwesomeBlog/~3/Z-arKhKuQFk/ http://forecourse.com/2010/05/allars-dev-diary-4-custom-character-weapon-assets/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 18:51:47 +0000 Allar http://forecourse.com/?p=586 Just some custom assets I’ve assembled/created and implemented into my code. They should be replaced with proper artist assets later on but its more of a demonstration of a custom weapon that reloads, animates, plays sound, etc without any ut classes.

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]]> http://forecourse.com/2010/05/allars-dev-diary-4-custom-character-weapon-assets/feed/ 0 http://forecourse.com/2010/05/allars-dev-diary-4-custom-character-weapon-assets/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Allar’s Dev Diary #3: ListBox Example http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AllarsAwesomeBlog/~3/6cYcSfGf8VY/ http://forecourse.com/2010/04/allars-dev-diary-3-listbox-example/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:35:59 +0000 Allar http://forecourse.com/?p=578 Yeah, I rambled a lot again. This is shows my ListBox element in action, along with a sneak peak at a server browser.

Streaming: 1080p 480p

Download: 1080p 480p

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]]> http://forecourse.com/2010/04/allars-dev-diary-3-listbox-example/feed/ 0 http://forecourse.com/2010/04/allars-dev-diary-3-listbox-example/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Allar’s Dev Diary #2: ABUIScene Overview http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AllarsAwesomeBlog/~3/ObXq9Y0suxY/ http://forecourse.com/2010/04/allars-dev-diary-2-abuiscene-overview/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:06:03 +0000 Allar http://forecourse.com/?p=573 Yeah, I rambled a lot. This is probably a waste of time to watch, but its how I’m working with UIScenes (or lack thereof).

Streaming: 1080p 480p

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