https://davevoyles.com/tags/postmortem/Recent content in Postmortem on Dave VoylesHugoen-usFri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://davevoyles.com/posts/the-final-chapter-of-my-book-on-unrealscript-programming-was-completed-today/Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://davevoyles.com/posts/the-final-chapter-of-my-book-on-unrealscript-programming-was-completed-today/<p><a href="http://davidvoyles.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/556ot_07_08.png"><img alt="UnrealScript HUD" loading="lazy" src="http://davidvoyles.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/556ot_07_08.png"></a></p> <p>Earlier today I completed the final chapter of my book <em>The Advancaed UnealScript Programming Cookbook</em>. The book covers a number of topics ranging from creating custom weapons, advanced AI for navigating tight paths and following pawns, drawing a HUD without the use of <a href="http://gameware.autodesk.com/scaleform">ScaleForm</a>, and adjusting crosshairs based on the actor your pawn’s eyes are tracing.</p> <p>It was an interesting experience, to say the least. Initially I wasn’t completely confident that I could complete the book within the restrictions of such a tight deadline (less than 3 months), especially when I hadn’t used the language or Unreal Development kit in almost a year. I had previously been focusing my efforts on C#, XNA, and Unity.</p>