CryEngine Game Development Blueprints

Richard Gerard Marcoux Iii

• 28 augustus 2015
• 9781784390105

Samenvatting:

Perfect the art of creating CRYENGINE games through exciting, hands-on game development projects

Key Features

Book DescriptionCRYENGINE is a game engine developed by Crytek for PC, Playstation, Xbox, Android, and iOS. It can be used to create AAA games, movies, high-quality simulations, and interactive applications. It is most popularly used for game development. In this book, you will start off by exploring the CRYENGINE “Blank” Game Starter-kit, creating a completely playable character from scratch and controlling its movement. You will learn how to implement a weapon and ammo class, and will create complete “start” and “end” game menus using Scaleform and C++. Additionally, you will learn some key texturing techniques for PBR and how to create and bake maps to the lowpoly model. You will also explore how to get a static model from Maya and shaders setbup in the SDK to check the textures during creation, and create all the necessary engine files to export and see the game character's animations in your engine. In the final third of the book, you will learn how to create objectives, set up saved games, layer on audio polish to help immerse the player in the experience, and debug game issues. What you will learn

• Create a CRYENGINE game from scratch with the Game Starter-kit Add custom methods to allow the player/AI to use a weapon Create complete -start and -end game menus using Scaleform and C++ Discover how to use highpoly modeling workflow and techniques within the pipeline for the SDK to use Use the Crytiff exporter from Photoshop Export the CHR-the format the engine needs to read the skeleton Integrate the character in the engine using the character tool Better understand the rules to create and author skeletons to rig characters designed for CRYENGINE Debug common setup issues that might appear during production with useful tools

Who this book is for

This book is intended for CRYENGINE game developers, wanting to develop their skills with the help of industry experts. A good knowledge level and understanding of CRYENGINE is assumed, to allow efficient programming of core elements and applications.