Unreal mutator (nonfiction)

In the Unreal engine, a mutator is a script that alters the way the standard game functions in some way.

Scope

The script could do something as simple as replacing all the weapons in a map with rocket launchers, or it could be much more involved such as changing the player’s view from a first- to third-person perspective.

In this tutorial at docs.unrealengine.com, the mutator causes the players' health the regenerate a specified amount every second during play.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Game (nonfiction)
• Unreal Tournament 3 (nonfiction)

External links

• UnrealScript Baptism by Fire @ docs.unrealengine.com
• Learning #1: My First Unreal Tournament 3 Mutator
• Unreal Learning #2: UT3 Configurable Mutators
• Modding Guide - Getting started with Mutators
• Unreal Tournament 3 Script Setup - Part 2: Compiling a mutator
• Unreal Learning #5: Attachments
• Unreal Learning #4: Advanced Weapons (part 1) - Complex Materials - create complex materials, and how to program a weapon which can alter them, and a physics gun.