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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 - creating some flora for your level


Without further ado, let's bring some life to the map we have been working on.

  1. Open Example_Level_2.cry or your own, already textured level.

  2. From the RollupBar, open the Terrain tab and click on the Vegetation button as shown in the following screenshot:

    Before we can paint the vegetation, we first must add in some objects that we want to use. The first vegetation we will place will be some trees.

  3. Click on the icon called Add Vegetation Category, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Name the new category Trees.

  5. Select the newly created Trees category.

  6. Click on the add vegetation object icon as shown in the following screenshot.

  7. Navigate to .../Objects/Natural/vegetation/rocky_ravines/ and select a_spruce_a.cgf, then click on Open.

    Note

    You can hold Control and click on multiple objects in a category at once.

  8. All of the highlighted trees have now been placed in this category. You can now start painting with a few of the selected trees or select the...