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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

Credits

Authors

Sean Tracy

Paul Reindell

Reviewers

Marcieb Balisacan

Michelle M. Fernandez

Christos Gatzidis

Sascha Hoba

Robertson Holt

Lee Chiu Yi Joanna

Adam Johnson

Morgan Kita

Acquisition Editor

Robin de Jongh

Lead Technical Editor

Dayan Hyames

Technical Editors

Sharvari Baet

Manmeet Singh Vasir

Jalasha D'costa

Copy Editors

Insiya Morbiwala

Laxmi Subramanian

Project Coordinator

Leena Purkait

Proofreader

Clyde Jenkins

Indexer

Monica Ajmera Mehta

Graphics

Valentina D'silva

Aditi Gajjar

Production Coordinators

Nitesh Thakur

Manu Joseph

Cover Work

Nitesh Thakur