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CryEngine Game Development Blueprints

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CryEngine Game Development Blueprints

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CryEngine Game Development Blueprints
Aug, 2015 | 322 pages
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Table of Contents (22 chapters)
CRYENGINE Game Development Blueprints
CRYENGINE Game Development Blueprints
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Started
Getting Started
Downloading the starter-kit
Installing the starter-kit
Important classes within the starter-kit
Compiling our game
Summary
2
Creating a Playable Character
Creating a Playable Character
Implementing player lives
Implementing player movement and rotation
Making a camera follow the player
Summary
3
Implementing Weapons and Ammo
Implementing Weapons and Ammo
Creating a weapon class
Creating an ammo class
Creating ammo events
Summary
4
Creating an Enemy AI
Creating an Enemy AI
Registering a new AI class
Detecting the player and preventing mobility
Shooting the player
Extending the AI
Summary
5
Creating User Interfaces
Creating User Interfaces
Creating the Flash UI content for our menus
Creating UI elements
Implementing a game menu system in C++
Summary
6
The Modeling Workflow for Game Characters and Tools
The Modeling Workflow for Game Characters and Tools
Getting started
Installing the CRYENGINE SDK
Installing CryTools
An overview of the modeling workflow
Summary
7
Highpoly Modeling
Highpoly Modeling
Blockout
Highpoly
Using DynaMesh
Highpoly sculpting techniques
Sculpting out the forms
Adding the forms
Adding more details
Adding fine details
The hair system
Exporting the highpoly mesh
Summary
8
Lowpoly Modeling
Lowpoly Modeling
Creating the lowpoly model
Tools
Getting started
Topology and edgeflow
Building the lowpoly
Naming and organizing a Maya scene
LODs
Summary
9
Texturing and Materials
Texturing and Materials
Baking
Baking the fur and alphas
Efficient psd setup
Using masks
Basics of PBR texturing
Exporting maps
Exporting a mesh and materials into CRYENGINE
Importing the mesh by using CRYENGINE Material Editor
File check and handover
Summary
10
Building the Character Rig
Building the Character Rig
Getting started
Scene settings in Maya
Authoring the deformation skeleton in Maya
Building the rig
Summary
11
Exporting the Character to CRYENGINE
Exporting the Character to CRYENGINE
Getting started
Art asset file types
Creating the export groups in Maya
The Character Editor
Exporting the animations to the engine
The physicalized attachments
Summary
12
Initial Level Blockout and Setup
Initial Level Blockout and Setup
Action bubble level design
Adapting the premade SDK content
Summary
13
The Flow Graph Workflow
The Flow Graph Workflow
Using Flow Graph containers
Using Game Tokens to create cleaner Flow Graphs
Laying out Flow Graphs to aid readability
Thinking modularly to future-proof our work
Summary
14
Scripting Gameplay Content
Scripting Gameplay Content
Scripting the main level flow and events
AI navigation and sequences
Using the Mannequin editor
Adapting AI tasks based on player actions
Implementing objectives and checkpoints
Summary
15
Maintaining Our Work
Maintaining Our Work
Skipping through the level flow
Advancing the state of other level elements
Advancing complex AI sequences
Debugging setup issues
Summary
Index
Index

Creating UI elements

So, we created all the UI content needed for our game in Flash, exported it, and converted it to an optimized format for consumption by CRYENGINE. What's next? Well, we need to define UI elements. UI elements are CRYENGINE's representation of a Flash UI scene. CRYENGINE cannot directly consume Flash UI content and therefore needs an XML file that defines the entire UI as UI elements. So, in this section, we will be doing just that.

Let's get started:

  1. Create a UI element definition file in the CRYENGINE_CONTENT/Libs/UI/UIElements folder named GAS_UI.xml and open it.

  2. Define a UI element for each menu (the main menu and the end game menu):

    <!--Define A Group Of UI Elements Named Menus. This Allows Us To Specify Multiple UI Elements In One File And Group Them Together For Organization.-->
<UIElements name="Menus">

  <!--Define A UI Element That Will Represent Our Main Menu Named "Main_Menu". This Will Be The Name That We Use To Retrieve The Main Menu In C++....
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