- 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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Where forbidden boundaries fail to keep the AI from going into certain locations, forbidden areas are used instead. This recipe will teach you how to utilize the forbidden areas to block off the areas that the AI entity should not go to.
- Before we begin, you must have Sandbox 3 open
- Then open
My_Level.cry - Place down one Grunt AI
- Place
defaultprimitive_cube.cgfas a brush down near the Grunt AI
- In the RollupBar, click on the AI button.
- From the Object Type, select ForbiddenArea.
- With the Follow Terrain enabled, click four points roughly in a square around the primitive_cube.cgf.
- On the Forbidden Area Params, set DisplayerFilled to true.
- Generate the AI navigation.
You may have noticed that without the forbidden area present around the box, the AI Grunt takes a significantly longer time to find a path to the player and may even get stuck running up against it if the player is behind the box. This is because the AI does not know of the box's existence and needs to be told to navigate around this area. Once the forbidden area is marked up around the box, the AI will have very little trouble navigating around the object to find the player.
Similar to forbidden boundaries, forbidden areas act as a stronger barrier against the AI from entering into them. If the AI manages to enter these forbidden areas, then the default AI behaviour, if active, will alert them to seek the nearest edge of the forbidden area to exit the area as quickly as they can.
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