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Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development

By : Dr. Edward Lavieri
Book Image

Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development

By: Dr. Edward Lavieri

Overview of this book

Amazon’s Lumberyard is a 3D cross-platform game development engine for building high-quality AAA games. It makes the process of creating multi-player games and adding realistic characters, stunning terrains, and special effects much faster and more efficient. This book will show you how to use Lumberyard to create a multiplayer 3D game with cloud computing, storage, and Twitch integration for user engagement. We will start with an introduction to Lumberyard and provide an overview of its capabilities and integration options. Once the game engine is installed, we’ll guide you through the creation of an immersive game world with characters. You’ll add animations and audio to bring the game to life. We’ll explore external interactions to support live multiplayer game play, data storage, user engagement, and the back end. By the end of the book, you will be efficient in building cross-platform games using Lumberyard.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 5.  Animating Your Characters

In the previous chapter, we looked at how characters are created in Lumberyard and how they can be imported from other digital content creation tools. We also took an in-depth look at Lumberyard's character tool, Geppetto. In this chapter, we will examine the process of animating our game characters. Our primary tool will be Mannequin, Lumberyard's animation tool. This chapter covers Mannequin's user interface and its functionality.

After reading this chapter, you will:

  • Understand animation concepts as they apply to 3D games

  • Understand the Mannequin filesystem

  • Be able to navigate the Mannequin user interface

  • Understand the Mannequin workflow

  • Understand the basics of Flow Graphs

  • Understand how animations are incorporated into Lumberyard games