UnrealScript Game Programming Cookbook

Archetypes and Prefabs

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2. From there scroll to PointLight and left-click on the + to open up all of the lights under
   that category. Right-click on PointLight to bring up the Create Archetype... menu.


3. Left-click on Create Archetype... and bring up the Enter Package Name
   pop-up window.


4. I've entered the following information into the fields:
   Package: TutorialPackage

Grouping: Archetypes

Name: Arc_Pointlight

5. Now head to your content browser, and under your TutorialPackages
   folder you should see a group called Archetypes, and it is filled with your new
   Arc_PointLight object. With that selected, press F4 to bring up its properties.
   You now have a new instance of a PointLight archetype, which you can use
   as a template for future lights in your game.
   We have quite a few properties exposed here though, and things look a bit cluttered.
   Our level designer probably won't need access to all of these things, such as the
   static mesh actor, collision, and debug. It is only a light, after all.
   Let's head back to our IDE and make a brief change to the class.


6. Save your package by right-clicking on your folder marked Tutorial in your content
   browser. If you see a * next to the package then you know that you haven't saved
   since you last made a change.


7. Close the editor and use your IDE to create a new class. We're going to extend from
   the PointLight class, as we've just used it in the editor, and it seemed to fit our
   needs. Create a new class called Tut_PointLight. Your code should look like
   the following:
   classTut_PointLight extends PointLight;