Unreal Development Kit Beginner’s Guide

Chapter 7. Adding Gameplay Elements into your Map

This section explains how to get all of the basic gameplay elements into your map. In this example, we'll set up a Deathmatch map, which is the easiest type to create. Capture the Flag, Warfare maps, and vehicle variants, which have a couple of additional node types that you need to add, are discussed at the end of this tutorial.

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Naming your map
• Adding a player start
• Play in editor
• Placing pickups
• Placing weapons
• Placing jump pads
• Adding other game objective types
• Adding path nodes

So let's get on with it…

Let's start by looking into gameplay elements.

Adding gameplay elements

When starting a level, no matter what the game-type is, it is always best to shell out the gameplay ...