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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 - starting CryENGINE with the debugger attached


  1. To be able to start CryENGINE 3 with Visual Studio, we need to do some initial setup.

  2. Right-click on the GameDll file in the Solution Explorer tab found on the left-hand side of the screen, and select the following options as seen in the following screenshot:

    • Select Set as StartUp Project

    • Then, click on Properties

  3. Now in the GameDll Property Pages window, we have to select Debugging present under the Configuration Properties tab.

  4. In the Command property, we have to navigate to the Editor.exe file in the <engine root> | Bin32 folder by clicking on the drop-down arrow in the Command property and selecting <Browse...>, as seen in the following screenshot:

  5. Now, click on OK to close the property page.

  6. You should now be able to click on the green play icon in to toolbar (or press F5) and see if the CryENGINE Sandbox opens up. If a message box pops up that tells you that No debug symbols could be found for Editor.exe, just click...