- 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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Instead of using the dead body that we used in the Hangman on a rope recipe, we will look at attaching a heavy RigidBodyEx in the shape of a ball to make a wrecking ball. Through this the player will be able to activate the rope physics to swing the wrecking ball into a breakable house and destroy a section of wall on it.
- You should have completed the Hangman on a rope recipe
- Open
My_Level.crywithin the Sandbox
Using what we've already learned from the Hangman on a rope recipe, we will now swap out the DeadBody for a RigidbodyEx:
- In the RollupBar, click on the Entities button.
- Under the Physics section, select RigidBodyEx.
- After placing the RigidBodyEx into your level, you first want to change the model over to a sphere.
- Select the newly placed RigidBodyEx.
- In the RollupBar, you will find Model under Entity Properties.
- Change the model to the following
.cgfmodelobjects/default/primitive_sphere.cgf. - Then change the following properties still found under Entity Properties:
CanBreakOthers = true
Mass = 1000
Resting = False
- Next, we will need to adjust our vertical rope to line up more horizontally with a bit of a bend in it.
- Lastly, line up the RigidBodyEx to the end of the rope. The final assembly of this should look like the following screenshot:
Now the wrecking ball is ready. However, it needs something to destroy. Place down a destructive object in the path of the wrecking ball such as the following brush Objects/library/architecture/village/village_house1_c.cgf. After setting up the wrecking ball over the head of the house, the player will see destruction occur the next time they enter the level.
The setup of the wrecking ball is very similar to the hangman, but just used in a different context of how designers can utilize the rope physics.
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