In this DVD James Tan begins his series on re-creating Assault in UDK. James uses his 13 years of experience with Unreal Technology and Global UDK Educator with Epic, to demystify custom UDK game creation using UnrealScript. He starts off with setting up the Development Environment and then goes into the Base UDK Structure. James then goes over Pawns, Weapons, Weapon Attachments, Cameras, Player Replication Info, HUD, Inventory, Key Relationships, Archetypes, Unreal FrontEnd, and playing over a LAN.

Instructor Luiz Kruel guides you through writing your own shaders, primarily with the CGFX shader language in Maya.
Luiz starts off with getting everything set up in Maya and then writes a simple Lambert shader from scratch.
From there Luiz builds upon the Lambert to create a Fresnel and Phong shader.
Once the Phong shader is defined, Luiz begins to add textures like diffuse, specular, normal, and cubemap.
He then demonstrates how to manipulate UVs and even how to do vertex animation.
Luiz then goes into such techniques as blending textures and colors, creating a car shader,
and pulling everything together to create a full character shader with SSS.
Finally, Luiz demonstrates how to take what you have learned into UDK to create a custom shader using the standard material nodes.