Digital,
'Seek not to know the answers... but to understand the questions.'
I don't know why everyone is saying don't do it.. You can use it none commercially, and you can learn a lot about the structure of Unreal and Unreal 2 engine.
Go to this web address and look around, there are plenty of tutorials and such here.
www.3dbuzz.com
You need to go to the downloads section and you will find all sorts of treasure there, including many tutorials for Unreal and Max and C++. You have to become a member to get the good stuff I think. But there is approximately 30 HOURS of video tutorials to get you deeply into Unreal. Quake Tutorials are there too, but I haven't looked at those yet.
The guys over at 3D Buzz were paid by Epic to do the tutorials, they are video tutorials and are very very very good, considering they are FREE - they are probably the BEST tutorials I have come across on the Net.
These guys even run a radio station featuring their work and have guests come along to discuss how to do stuff. They also have all the latest news of stuff happening in the world of 3D.
Brilliant!
Buy the game UT2004 and you have the basic engine. Download the stuff from epic games web site and use the tutorials on 3Dbuzz. The developer network is here - there's all you need to know and more, as long as you are tenacious enough to stick with it.
http://udn.epicgames.com/Main/WebHome
With the tools and the game you can write you own stuff, change things in the game, develop your own and see them all right on screen inside the engine, running beautifully.
All I paid for was the game UT2004, the rest was just, well, free downloads.
Good luck and let us know how you get on!
IPete2.
'Seek not to know the answers... but to understand the questions.'
I don't know why everyone is saying don't do it.. You can use it none commercially, and you can learn a lot about the structure of Unreal and Unreal 2 engine.
Go to this web address and look around, there are plenty of tutorials and such here.
www.3dbuzz.com
You need to go to the downloads section and you will find all sorts of treasure there, including many tutorials for Unreal and Max and C++. You have to become a member to get the good stuff I think. But there is approximately 30 HOURS of video tutorials to get you deeply into Unreal. Quake Tutorials are there too, but I haven't looked at those yet.
The guys over at 3D Buzz were paid by Epic to do the tutorials, they are video tutorials and are very very very good, considering they are FREE - they are probably the BEST tutorials I have come across on the Net.
These guys even run a radio station featuring their work and have guests come along to discuss how to do stuff. They also have all the latest news of stuff happening in the world of 3D.
Brilliant!
Buy the game UT2004 and you have the basic engine. Download the stuff from epic games web site and use the tutorials on 3Dbuzz. The developer network is here - there's all you need to know and more, as long as you are tenacious enough to stick with it.
http://udn.epicgames.com/Main/WebHome
With the tools and the game you can write you own stuff, change things in the game, develop your own and see them all right on screen inside the engine, running beautifully.
All I paid for was the game UT2004, the rest was just, well, free downloads.
Good luck and let us know how you get on!
IPete2.