Mutator Topics

This page is the topic page for Mutator related information. For a general look at mods and mutators, see Making Mods. (There's also an introduction into how mutators work at Mod Authoring/Making A Mutator, but bear in mind that it's is a UT guide and is not fully applicable for UT2003.)

Mutator Overview

Mutators are a way to implement a modification. Mutators have to follow some important guidelines, which do not apply to new gametypes or total conversions (TCs).

Mutators should work with any gametype. (However, there are mutators which were written only for certain game types, e.g. the Jail Fight mutator for UT Jailbreak.)
Mutators should work with each other, that means any other mutator that someone might make. (Of course, two arena mutators won't work together, but nobody would expect that.)

Many non-Unreal games only know the concept of the Total Conversion, which has to be applied even if a mod only wants to add a new game type or change small aspects of the game. The Unreal engine offers all three concepts:

Total Conversion for a complete change,
new game types for a different set of game rules
and the mutators to change only small parts of the rules or add things to existing game types.

UT

Useful Mutator Functions – Making HUD mutators, destroying mutators, and functions for replacing items and giving weapons to players
INT File – Syntax of the .INT file

UT2003

Mutator Config GUI – Creating a config screen for your mutator
INT File – Syntax of the .INT file
Maintaining Compatibility
Writing and Using an Embedded Mutator

Comments

HunterKiller:How can this page and Mutator can be merged ? They talk about the same thing. I dont feel safe to do it by myself...

Tarquin: This is a topic page, for overview & links. Mutator is a class spec page

DJPaul: Rename this to [UT2003 Engine Overview/Mutator]??

Tarquin: I folded UT2003 Engine Overview into Unreal Engine. Or I was going to. I forget.