Further continuing the theme of cumbersome-tools-made-better, let's take a look at animation in CRYENGINE. In the past, animation states were handled by a tool called Animation Graph. This is akin to Flow Graph but handled animations and transitions for all animated entities, and unfortunately reduced any transitions or variation in the animations to a spaghetti graph. Thankfully, we now have Mannequin! This is an animation system where the methods by which animation states are handled is all dealt with behind the scenes—all we need to take care of are the animations themselves. In Mannequin, an animation and its associated data is known as a fragment. Any extra detail that we might want to add (such as animation variation, styles, or effects) can be very simply layered on top of the fragment in the Mannequin editor. While complex and detailed results can be achieved with all manner of first and third person animation in Mannequin, for level design we're only really...
CryEngine Game Development Blueprints
CryEngine Game Development Blueprints
Overview of this book
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
CRYENGINE Game Development Blueprints
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Getting Started
Creating a Playable Character
Implementing Weapons and Ammo
Creating an Enemy AI
Creating User Interfaces
The Modeling Workflow for Game Characters and Tools
Highpoly Modeling
Lowpoly Modeling
Texturing and Materials
Building the Character Rig
Exporting the Character to CRYENGINE
Initial Level Blockout and Setup
The Flow Graph Workflow
Scripting Gameplay Content
Maintaining Our Work
Index
Customer Reviews