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CryENGINE 3 Game Development: Beginner's Guide

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CryENGINE 3 Game Development: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

CryENGINE is a complete game development environment used by AAA game development studio Crytek to produce blockbuster games such as Crysis 1, 2 and 3. This complete Beginner's Guide takes the would be game developer through the steps required to create a game world complete with event scripting, user interface and 3D environment in the free CryENGINE SDK. Learn to create game worlds with the CryENGINE 3 Sandbox, the tool used to create AAA games like the soon to be released Crysis 3. Follow straightforward examples to sculpt the terrain, place vegetation, set up lighting, create game sounds, script with Lua and code with C++. Learn to navigate the interface within the CryENGINE 3 Sandbox, the tool used to create AAA games like Crysis 1 and 2, as well as the soon to be released Crysis 3. Learn to create your own worlds by following straight forward examples to sculpt the terrain, place vegetation, set up lighting, create game sounds, and script with the Lua language. The book covers all beginner aspects of game development including an introduction to C++ for non- coders.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
CryENGINE 3 Game Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

CryENGINE 3 Sandbox


The CryENGINE 3 Sandbox is the level compositing tool built for CryENGINE, which is used to create and edit the majority of the content for games, visualizations, and simulations. It is likely, if you are developing a game based on CryENGINE—whether you are an artist, programmer, animator, or designer—you will have to use it at some point of time. As such, you should have a basic understanding of the CryENGINE 3 sandbox and some of the subsystems contained within. Fortunately, you'll find it to be an extremely powerful tool with a deep assortment of subsystems available to just about anyone involved in a game's development process.