- CryENGINE 3 Cookbook
- CryENGINE 3 Cookbook
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- Preface
- 1. CryENGINE 3: Getting Started
- 2. Sandbox Basics
- Introduction
- Creating a new level
- Generating a procedural terrain
- Terrain sculpting
- Setting up the terrain texture
- Placing the objects in the world
- Refining the object placement
- Utilizing the layers for multiple developer collaboration
- Switching to game mode
- Saving your level
- Exporting to an engine
- Essential game objects
- Running a map from the Launcher
- 3. Basic Level Layout
- 4. Environment Creation
- Introduction
- Creating your first time of day using the basic parameters
- Adjusting the terrain lighting
- Using the real-time Global Illumination
- Editing HDR lighting and the effects for flares
- Creating a global volumetric fog
- Creating a night scene with time of day parameters
- Color grading your level
- Creating a photo realistic ocean
- Improving your sky with clouds
- Making it rain in your level
- 5. Basic Artificial Intelligence
- 6. Asset Creation
- Introduction
- Installing the CryENGINE 3 plugin for 3D Studio Max
- Creating textures using CryTIF
- Setting up units to match CryENGINE in 3ds
- Basic material setup in 3ds
- Creating and exporting static objects
- Creating and exporting destroyable objects
- Using advanced material editor parameters to create animation
- Creating new material effects
- Creating image-based lighting
- 7. Characters and Animation
- 8. Creating Vehicles
- 9. Game Logic
- Introduction
- How to beam the player to a tag point from a trigger
- Making the AI go to a location when the player enters a proximity trigger
- Debugging the Flow Graph
- Creating a kill counter
- Rewarding the player for reaching a kill goal
- Displaying the player's health through a Flow Graph
- Changing the player camera through key input
- Creating a countdown timer
- 10. Track View and Cut-Scenes
- 11. Fun Physics
- 12. Profiling and Improving Performance
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Another fun physics entity is the Tornado. In this recipe, we will look at placing one down and allowing this tornado to roam around the level. We will also demonstrate it picking up and throwing around multiple AI Grunts.
Place down the Tornado entity by doing the following:
- In the RollupBar, click on the Entities button.
- Under the Environment section, select Tornado.
- The default values for the tornado will not be sufficient to lift up the AI Grunt, so we will have to adjust the following values:
SpinImpulse = 40
UpImpulse = 40
AttractionImpulse = 100
With these properties set, the next time we enter into game mode, the tornado will start to wander around and pick up and toss the AI Grunts. Even the player himself can get caught in this and be pulled around by the tornado.
The Tornado entity is a special entity that applies multiple forces into a defined radius around the entity. These forces are the same forces as described previously with SpinImpulse, UpImpulse, and AttractionImpulse. You can also add in a WanderSpeed, which will allow the tornado to wander around in a random direction that will still follow the terrain.
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