

J's  Chess Set 2021 by Jeff Martin
jm@islandalien.com
www.islandalien.com/unreal

A set of 6 chess pieces custom made from scratch and converted into Unreal Mesh files using Mychaeel (mychaeel@planetunreal.com)'s excellent MeshMaker.exe utility.

Place the following (*.u) files in your UnrealTournament\System folder.

JMPawn.u
JMRook.u
JMKnight.u
JMBishop.u
JMQueen.u
JMKing.u

Start UnrealEd.exe, click on the Actor Class browser, then Open Package and select all chess files.

Chess pieces appear as a sub class of Decoration.

Change colors by clicking on the chess piece, select Properties, then Display, MultiSkins[ ]
Highlight the texture of your choosing (from the Textures browser) and click "use".

Make chess piece moveable by selecting Properties...
	Advanced/bStatic=false
	Decoration/bPushable=true

Change chess piece size under Properties/Display/DrawScale

Be sure to adjust collision Height and Radius accordingly under Properties/Collision


J's chess set was made in commemoration of "Pawns" for Unreal's 20th anniversary edition, and is included in the pawns2021.zip package.

See web site for details, and happy anniversary Unreal!

--Jeff






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