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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

Putting it all together


So far we have explored animation functionality with Mannequin and Geppetto. We understand that a third-party content creation system such as Autodesk Maya or Autodesk 3DS Max is required to create the animation files for import into our game levels. Next, let's take a look at a finished project to see how this all works together.

We will look at two types of animations: one that is initiated by user input and one that runs automatically.

Animation triggered by user input

Follow these steps:

  1. Launch the Lumberyard Editor.

  2. On the Welcome to Lumberyard Editor dialog window, click the Open level button. If you previously checked the Don't show this dialog on startup checkbox in the Welcome to Lumberyard Editor dialog window, the window will not be present. You can toggle the window back on by selecting File | Global Preferences | Editor Settings and checking the Show Welcome to Lumberyard at startup checkbox. You can also select File | Open from the pull-down menu to launch...