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
Materials
See Unreal Materials (nonfiction).
- Material @ docs.unrealengine.com
General tutorials
- Kismet @ 3dbuzz.com - free to registered users
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
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