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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

Packaging your content to share


The time has finally come for us to package up our levels and assets and unleash them on the gaming community! Sharing your creations can be a very educational and rewarding experience, as it allows others to critique as well as enjoy your work. It is very common for games to go through many releases and patching, and this can be considered when sharing your content for free.

CryDev project database

At the beginning of this book, we registered on http://crydev.net to get access to the Free SDK using a login and password. Using CryDev, we can give individual users access to our content using the project system. You can also save your level with a global share parameter, which will allow anyone with a CryDev username and password to access your levels.