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CryENGINE 3 Cookbook

By : Dan Tracy, Sean P Tracy (USD)
Book Image

CryENGINE 3 Cookbook

By: Dan Tracy, Sean P Tracy (USD)

Overview of this book

With every successive console generation, the cost, time, and complexity of developing games has grown. Meet CryENGINE3, a middleware engine that is the perfect fit for most developers allowing users to exceed current generation quality standards while using less people and time than ever thought possible.The CryENGINE3 CookBook is packed full of recipes for junior and senior developers alike. It covers everything from creating photo realistic architectural visualizations to implementing advanced physics such as ragdoll and tornado effects. Topics covered include the sandbox, level layout, environment creation, AI, character creation, creating vehicles, and game logic. Every recipe is designed to add AAA quality to your games. The CryENGINE3 SDK has many tools immediately available to developers of all disciplines. For designers the book has recipes for building up your own levels and populating your levels with intelligent AI and photo realistic assets. For artists we have recipes for practical workflow tools and techniques used when working with the advanced CryENGINE shaders and materials. For animators we have recipes that will bring your creations to life using skinned characters and advanced animation systems like locomotion groups. Finally for programmers we have recipes that show how to employ the core mechanics behind entities such as vehicles and weapons while also utilizing the strengths of the physics engine to create a unique and exciting game.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
CryENGINE 3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a new car XML


In this recipe, we will show you how to build a new script for CryENGINE 3 to recognize your car model as a vehicle entity. For this recipe, you must have some basic knowledge in XML formatting.

Getting ready

Open DefaultVehicle.xml in the XML editor of your choice (Notepad, Notepad++, UltraEdit, and so on). This XML will be used as the basic template to construct our new vehicle XML.

Note

DefaultVehicle.xml is found at the following location: MyGameFolder\Scripts\Entities\Vehicles\Implementations\Xml.

Open the MyVehicle.max scene made from the previous recipe to use as a reference for the parts section within this recipe.

How to do it...

Basic Properties:

  1. First, we will need to rename the filename to what the vehicle's name would be.

  2. Delete filename = Objects/Default.cgf.

  3. Rename name = DefaultVehicle to name = MyVehicle.

  4. Add actionMap = landvehicle to the end of the cell.

  5. Save the file as MyVehicle.XML.

  6. Your first line should now look like the following:

    Note

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