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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 - exporting your level to engine


This process will have to be used on any level, but for the sake of this example, you should have the example_6.cry file open inside sandbox:

  1. Go to File | Export to Engine, or press Ctrl + E.

    This crucial step is required to convert all the raw data contained in the .cry file and its layers into a level.pak archive.

  2. Close the Editor.exe application and run the launcher.exe application.

  3. Open the map example_6.cry, and you will have spawned at the correct SpawnPoint and be forced into a fierce AI battle.

What just happened?

As the launcher.exe application is our target, this is important to do once in a while. Though sandbox supports the Switch to Game Mode function, it is not an accurate representation of the performance as the additional overhead of the editor and debugging tools can slow frame rates.

Have a go hero

It is possible to open .pak files and access the information stored inside of them by using third-party compression software such as...