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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 – create a team, project, and share an upload


The CryDev project system is a nice system that we can easily use to share and store our projects! In this example, we will create a team and then we will register a project within that team. Next, we will upload some data to our project, to share with other CryDev users.

  1. Open your favorite web browser and go to http://crydev.net.

  2. Log in using your username and password. This is the same username and password used to log in to the CryENGINE Sandbox.

  3. Click on the Projects link as shown in the following screenshot:

    Upon clicking on Projects, you'll see a list of all the CryDev projects sorted by the latest update. As our final goal here is to create a project and upload our files, we must first create a team. Teams can be made up of one or many people, however, for this example, we will create one just for ourselves.

  4. Click on the Create Team icon and then enter a team name.

    In the following screenshot, I have named the team as My Super...