Chapter 7, Creating Assets for the CryENGINE 3
by Paul Reindell, Sean Tracy
CryENGINE 3 Game Development Beginner's Guide
- CryENGINE 3 Game Development Beginner's Guide
- Table of Contents
- CryENGINE 3 Game Development Beginner's Guide
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Introducing the CryENGINE 3 Free SDK
- What is the CryENGINE?
- Applying your vision
- CryENGINE 3 Free SDK
- Learning by example
- Time for action – installing the CryENGINE 3 Free SDK
- Time for action – load the sample map in the launcher
- Visual Studio Express and C++ game code
- Acquiring the sample source assets
- Time for action – installation of the 3ds Max exporter Plugin
- Time for action – downloading and opening the sample assets
- Time for action – installing the Adobe Photoshop plugin-CryTif
- CryENGINE 3 Sandbox
- Time for action – starting Sandbox and WYSIWYP
- Getting around in the Sandbox Editor
- Time for action – manipulating the perspective camera
- Handling level objects
- Time for action – selecting and browsing objects
- Time for action – saving our work
- Summary
- 2. Breaking Ground with Sandbox
- What makes a game?
- Developing out of the box
- Time for action - creating a new level
- Time for action - creating your own heightmap
- Using alternative ways for creating terrain
- Time for action - creating some basic terrain texture layers
- Time for action - creating some flora for your level
- Time for action - setting up time of day and its basic parameters
- Summary
- 3. Playable Levels in No Time
- Building levels with entities and objects
- Starting a level
- Time for action - creating a spawn point
- Landmarks to guide the player
- Time for action - creating a road object
- Time for action - creating and managing layers
- Time for action - adding brushes to the level
- White boxing
- Time for action - creating constructive solid geometry
- Time for action - place a basic AI entity
- Time for action - creating your own archetype
- Time for action - exporting your level to engine
- Summary
- 4. I'm a Scripter, Not a Coder
- Scripting and the CryENGINE 3
- Lua usage in the CryENGINE 3
- Visual scripting with Flow Graph
- Scripted events
- Time for action - making a Flow Graph to spawn the player at a specific location
- Using trigger entities with Flow Graph
- Time for action - adding a trigger to Flow Graph and outputting its status
- AI scripting with Flow Graph
- Time for action - creating a patrolling AI
- Debugging Flow Graphs using the visual debugger
- Time for action - debugging the patrol Flow Graph
- Time for action - adding and removing breakpoints
- Summary
- 5. C++ and Compiling Your Own Game Code
- Installing Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition
- Time for action - downloading and installing Visual C++ 2010 Express
- Starting CryENGINE 3 with Visual Studio
- Time for action - starting CryENGINE with the debugger attached
- Breakpoints, watches, and code
- Time for action - setting up your first breakpoint
- Create a new Lua entity and call C++ code to interact with it
- Time for action - creating a new entity
- Time for action - placing your entity into your level
- Time for action - making the teleporter usable
- Time for action - writing a new scriptbind function in C++
- Time for action - changing the teleporter entity to execute the C++ code
- CryENGINE specific data types
- Summary
- 6. User Interface and HUD Creation with Flash
- Adobe Flash as a very powerful UI design tool
- Time for action – creating a new Flash asset with Adobe Flash
- Bringing your Flash asset into CryENGINE 3
- Time for action – bringing your Flash asset into CryENGINE 3
- Time for action – making functions, variables, and movieclips accessible in CryENGINE 3
- Different alignment modes for UI elements
- Using the UI Emulator to display and test your asset
- Time for action – starting Sandbox and testing your UIElement
- Creating a new UI Action for the new HUD
- Time for action – making the HUD work
- Basic event handling from Flash to CryENGINE 3
- Time for action – creating a simple interactive menu
- UI Emulator, UI Actions, and FreeSDK example menus
- Time for action – using the UI Emulator to test the FreeSDK demo menus
- Summary
- 7. Creating Assets for the CryENGINE 3
- What are assets?
- Understanding the CryENGINE 3 asset pipeline
- Exploring the CryENGINE 3 asset file types
- Following a workflow for artists
- Time for action - setting up 3ds Max units to match CryENGINE scale
- Time for action - creating your own texture
- Time for action - creating and exporting your first model
- Time for action - making your object destructible
- Using character assets
- Time for action - creating your own skinned character
- Time for action - creating animation for a skinned character
- Creating animation for rigid body assets
- Time for action - creating animation using rigid body data
- Summary
- 8. Creating Real-time Cutscenes and Cinematic Events
- Discovering the Track View editor
- Time for action – creating a new sequence
- Animating a camera in Track View
- Time for action – animating a camera
- Triggering a sequence using Flow Graph
- Time for action – triggering a sequence
- Animating entities in Track View
- Time for action – animating an entity in Track View
- Playing animations on entities in Track View
- Time for action – playing an animation on an entity in Track View
- Using Console Variables in Track View
- Time for action – adding a Console Variable to a sequence
- Using Track Events
- Time for action – creating some Track Events for a sequence
- Capturing video from CryENGINE 3
- Time for action – capturing frames from CryENGINE
- Summary
- 9. Immersion through Audio Design
- Introducing sound design
- Understanding the CryENGINE sound event system
- Setting up a project structure
- Reviewing sound event system file formats
- Getting your first sound into the CryENGINE
- Time for action - creating an ambient sound event
- Leveraging advanced parameters of ambient sounds
- Time for action - nesting ambient sounds and using other parameters for sound events
- Randomizing sounds
- Time for action - creating random sounds
- Reverb volumes
- Time for action - create your own reverb preset
- Adding sounds to particle effects
- Time for action - add a sound to a particle effect
- Sound events and weapons
- Time for action - add sound to a weapon
- Summary
- 10. Preparing to Share Your Content
- Profiling performance in Sandbox
- Time for action – enabling and reading display info
- Saving a level's statistics
- Time for action – Save Level Statistics
- Enabling Debug Draw modes
- Time for action – enabling Debug Draw modes
- Profiles
- Time for action – using profiles to break down frame-time performance
- Optimizing levels with VisAreas and Portals
- Time for action – set up a VisArea
- Light clipping boxes and areas
- Time for action – create a light clipping box
- Activating and deactivating layers
- Time for action – use layer switching logic
- Packaging your content to share
- Time for action – create a team, project, and share an upload
- Summary
- A. Pop Quiz Answers
- Chapter 2, Breaking Ground with Sandbox
- Chapter 3, Playable Levels in No Time
- Chapter 4, I’m a Scripter Not a Coder
- Chapter 5, C++ and Compiling Your Own Game Code
- Chapter 6, User Interface and HUD Creation with Flash
- Chapter 7, Creating Assets for the CryENGINE 3
- Chapter 8, Creating Real-time Cutscenes and Cinematic Events
- Chapter 9, Immersion through Audio Design
- Chapter 10, Preparing to Share Your Content
- Index
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