Life as an unresolved external symbol.
About
I’m Michael Allar, the awesome programmer who will solve all of your needs.
Being raised in the lower social economic class, I have developed a true sense of what is practical; and therefore try to be as impractical as possible. Given any task, I will accomplish it, but most likely in a way you would never expect. Sometimes I breed innovation, other times, simply unseen faster ways to do things. Sure, the means will generally be very messy and covered in the blood of one of every animal, but my end results are always solid and professional works.
Graduate of Fullerton High School, Class of ‘08, I am currently a student at The Art Institute of Orange County, located in Santa Ana, and is possibly the least cost effective Visual Game Programming private school ever built. As of this writing, I am completing my 8th quarter and my programming classes have taught me the sum total of nothing in which my past programming experience has not already taught me. Hopefully this will change, but in the mean time I am working on various side programming projects to keep my head spinning as I continue schooling.
Here you will find my experiments, struggles, rantings, successes and failures in regards to my programming projects. I am mainly focusing on working with the Unreal Engine lately, taking a break from my standard C# and my C++ projects. As I advance my knowledge with scripting for the Unreal Engine (more specifically UDK), you will see video tutorials I will be posting under the page entitled UDK Tutorials linked at the top of every page.
As a student, my code may or may not be the most efficient, suitable, practical, etc… But if you stumble upon methods that I use that are well-written/horribly done, please comment and criticize my work so that I may learn from it.
If you would like to contact me, feel free to do so at allar@michaelallar.com
April 2, 2010 - 5:05 am
Nice story, haha. Reminds me somehow.
May 10, 2010 - 2:06 am
Hi, it is very good that your site has so much information documented about UDK. The information on your site will be very useful to people like me, who are just starting to work with UDK.
May 17, 2010 - 11:37 pm
i came here for ESL golf
what happened?
July 5, 2010 - 9:28 am
Hi Michael
Whay i can not download movie in site?
July 5, 2010 - 9:29 am
If you click a download link and it starts playing the movie in-browser, right click it and click Save Target As or something similar.
July 5, 2010 - 8:05 pm
I Have some Problem to Download Video
Can You Share in one of the sharing host(rapishare-hotfile)
July 9, 2010 - 9:24 am
Hey Allar, nice site and work! I always find it interesting to meet an animator/programmer, as I’ve shared much of these same left brain/right brain passions (I also do music!). It’s challenging to be the guy who makes the engine, the toolset, the website, the artwork, the soundtrack, and the game design, but that’s what inspires us, am I right?
Anyhow, one of your AI schoolmates Mark (mcdub.net) said I should check out your site since it’s pretty awesome and similar to what I have started doing at glassocean.net. I don’t do ScaleForm or UDK, but I’ve done a few custom Episodes for Duke Nukem 3D back in my hey-day, as well as some Quake II and Half-Life maps. I also started writing a game engine and toolset in VB/DirectX, but time constraints have put that project on hold for now. I posted up some screenshots if you want to check those out.
Good luck dude!
August 3, 2010 - 5:10 am
do you have experience with cloth in UDK? maybe make a video tut for me ;-D
August 9, 2010 - 4:28 am
Awesome tutorials! These will help me getting started with UScript programming! Website bookmarked