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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

Time for action – Save Level Statistics


The report that we will generate will be created as a .xml file and can be opened by using Microsoft Excel.

Save Level Statistics can be printed out and accessed in two ways:

  1. The first way is to open the Tools menu in Sandbox and navigate to the Save Level Statistics option.

  2. The second way is to output the level statistics by using a console command. Triggering the writing of the data from the console is quite useful when running in the launcher.

  3. Open the console in Sandbox.

  4. Type the command savelevelstats.

    Performing this command through either of the two methods will create two .xml files under the root directory\TestResults folder.

    The name of these files contains the name of the level from which they were saved. For example, the two files in the following screenshot were saved from the forest.cry level:

    Note

    These files are best opened with Microsoft Excel.

  5. Open Forest.xml in Excel.

    The first tab of the save level stats printout gives some important information...