how easy is it these days to put your own character in to UDK with your own custom animation set. I want to also have it in 3rd person. haven't done any mod stuff with unreal since 2002 or so:)
pretty simple, just got to write your own pawn and gametype classes. and have them use your charcters and new animations sets, and make a animation tree.
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http://udn.epicgames.com
Scanning through it, I think this page even pretty much explains what you are looking for:
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/BasicGameQuickStart.html