- 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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In this chapter, we will cover:
- Creating skinned characters for the CryENGINE
- Ragdoll and physics for characters
- Creating animation for your character
- Previewing animations and characters in Sandbox
- Creating only upper body animations
- Creating locomotion animations
- Animating rigid body geometry data
In this chapter, we will explore the creation of animated characters for the CryENGINE. We will also extensively cover the creation of different animations for a variety of asset types.
Animated characters are integral to any game as any time you want to have realistic-looking humans, aliens, or anything of that sort you need to be able to skin the asset's mesh to a skeleton. Once the mesh has been skinned then it can be exported to the engine as a .CHR. There is a second format, used mostly when dealing with vehicles and rigid body assets, which is called .CGA.
A character is a combination of geometry data that is attached to a skeletal hierarchy. Examples include a human body, a shark, an alien, a horse, or a rope. In this chapter, we will mainly be dealing with humans; however, keep in mind that most of these recipes can be applied to other types of assets.
Throughout this chapter, we will be dealing with the SDK sample files shipped with the CryENGINE3 SDK. With that said, however, there is still extensive information throughout this chapter on creating a completely new character from start to finish and thus it can be used as a reference when creating a custom character.
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