Unreal Kismet (nonfiction)

Kismet is a scripting engine for the Unreal game engine.

Examples

Toggle materials

Convert a lamp mesh so it has a Material with an Emissive feature and an alternative Material with no Emissive feature, creating the illusion of a lamp being turned on and off.

Use the Set Material actions in Kismet to set the material of a surface.

This only changes the Material on a mesh: it does not the light cast in the scene. Use PointLightToggleable to provide light that toggles.

• How to animate a material with Kismet/Matinee in UDK by Ralph Fortin @ YouTube

Commentary

"You can't change the material applied to a static mesh actor during play. If you use an InterpActor, then the Set Material action in Kismet should do what you want. Or you could use a material with a TextureSampleParameter and the Set Material Param action should allow you to change that in Kismet. There are other ways as well, but I think one of those should work in most cases."

https://www.3dbuzz.com/forum/threads/170279-How-can-I-change-Material-Instance-with-Matinee

Teleportation

• How To - Build a Kismet Teleporter by ChapmanGameDev @ YouTube

Materials

See Unreal Materials (nonfiction).

• Material @ docs.unrealengine.com

General tutorials

• Kismet @ 3dbuzz.com - free to registered users

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Game (nonfiction)
• Unreal Development Kit (nonfiction) - Map development tools
• Unreal Matinee (nonfiction) - Cinematics editor
• Unreal Tournament 3 (nonfiction)

External links

• Unreal Tournament 3 @ Wikipedia