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NIUI Essentials

NIUI Essentials

This set of video tutorials will teach you the fundamentals for creating Kinect-based games in UDK. You'll learn the basics for setting up the NIUI API for use with UDK and then move on to build a simple Kinect game. By the end of the series you'll have finished a small Kinect based dodgeball game.

A brief introduction to what will be covered in the following tutorial.

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  • Runtime 02 min 59 sec
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In this chapter you'll learn the proper steps for setting up your development environment.

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  • Runtime 11 min 56 sec
  • Software Visual Studio, UDK

Review the code files for the NIUI API and what they control.

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  • Runtime 02 min 39 sec
  • Software Visual Studio

Setup you Main.uc script to communicate with your NIUI_Core.

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  • Runtime 04 min 28 sec
  • Software Visual Studio, UDK

In this tutorial you'll be creating the game's basic structure for applying bone rotations to a skeletal mesh.

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  • Runtime 15 min 47 sec
  • Software Visual Studio, UDK

In this chapter you'll setup the animation tree so NIUI can get the rotations from OpenNi and apply them to specified bones on your skeletal mesh.

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  • Runtime 13 min 30 sec
  • Software Visual Studio, UDK

Setup a skeletal controller in your SimplePawn script so you can apply the rotations on our skeletal mesh.

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  • Runtime 12 min 20 sec
  • Software Visual Studio, UDK

In this chapter we'll take some time to break down what we wish to accomplish in the following project.

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  • Runtime 02 min 14 sec

Create a simple HUD that will provide feedback to the person playing your game.

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  • Runtime 13 min 48 sec
  • Software Visual Studio, UDK

In this chapter we'll create the functionality for controlling our dodgeball in UDK.

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  • Runtime 13 min 54 sec
  • Software Visual Studio, UDK

In this chapter we'll create a ball spawner that will generate balls when they are needed.

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  • Runtime 14 min 04 sec
  • Software Visual Studio, UDK

In this chapter we'll create some functionality to control our avatar's left and right movements.

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  • Runtime 08 min 19 sec
  • Software Visual Studio, UDK

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