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    CryENGINE 3 Cookbook: Over 90 recipes written by Crytek developers for creating third-generation real-time games
    CryENGINE 3 Cookbook: Over 90 recipes written by Crytek developers for creating third-generation real-time games
    CryENGINE 3 Cookbook: Over 90 recipes written by Crytek developers for creating third-generation real-time games
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    CryENGINE 3 Cookbook: Over 90 recipes written by Crytek developers for creating third-generation real-time games

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    With every successive console generation, the cost, time, and complexity of developing games has grown. Meet CryENGINE3, a middleware engine that is the perfect fit for most developers allowing users to exceed current generation quality standards while using less people and time than ever thought possible.The CryENGINE3 CookBook is packed full of recipes for junior and senior developers alike. It covers everything from creating photo realistic architectural visualizations to implementing advanced physics such as ragdoll and tornado effects. Topics covered include the sandbox, level layout, environment creation, AI, character creation, creating vehicles, and game logic. Every recipe is designed to add AAA quality to your games. The CryENGINE3 SDK has many tools immediately available to developers of all disciplines. For designers the book has recipes for building up your own levels and populating your levels with intelligent AI and photo realistic assets. For artists we have recipes for practical workflow tools and techniques used when working with the advanced CryENGINE shaders and materials. For animators we have recipes that will bring your creations to life using skinned characters and advanced animation systems like locomotion groups. Finally for programmers we have recipes that show how to employ the core mechanics behind entities such as vehicles and weapons while also utilizing the strengths of the physics engine to create a unique and exciting game.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateJun 23, 2011
    ISBN9781849691079
    CryENGINE 3 Cookbook: Over 90 recipes written by Crytek developers for creating third-generation real-time games

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      Table of Contents

      CryENGINE 3 Cookbook

      Credits

      About the Authors

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

      Why subscribe?

      Free access for Packt account holders

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code and colored graphics for this book

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. CryENGINE 3: Getting Started

      Introduction

      Opening a level in the CryENGINE 3 Sandbox

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      What is a .cry file?

      Using a level.cfg

      See also

      Navigating a level with the Sandbox Camera

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Viewport movement speed control

      Under Views you can adjust the viewport to view different aspects of your level

      Splitting the main viewport to several subviewports

      See also

      Setting up a personalized toolset layout

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      The Status Bar

      The Console

      The Toolbox

      See also

      How to customize toolbars and menus

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      The Options tab

      Personalized menus and toolbars

      Using the Rollup Bar

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      The AI section

      The Area section

      The Entities section

      The Misc Objects section

      The Solids section

      The Archetype entity section

      The Geom entity section

      The Prefabs section

      The Sound section

      See also

      Selecting and browsing level objects

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Browsing frozen and hidden objects

      List types

      Display as a Tree

      See also

      Restoring the CryENGINE 3 default settings

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Deleting your user folder

      See also

      2. Sandbox Basics

      Introduction

      Creating a new level

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Using the Terrain option

      Heightmap resolution

      Meters per unit

      Terrain size

      There's more...

      See also

      Generating a procedural terrain

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Terrain generation settings

      See also

      Terrain sculpting

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Noise settings

      Reposition objects and vegetation

      See also

      Setting up the terrain texture

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Placing the objects in the world

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Refining the object placement

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Local position and rotation

      Grid and angle snaps

      Ctrl + Shift + Click

      See also

      Utilizing the layers for multiple developer collaboration

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      External layer limitations

      See also

      Switching to game mode

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Saving your level

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Exporting to an engine

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Opening .pak files

      Corrupted .pak files should be deleted and re-exported

      Essential game objects

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Running a map from the Launcher

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      3. Basic Level Layout

      Introduction

      Making basic shapes with the Solids tool

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Other shapes—cone, sphere, cylinder

      Number of sides—only for cone, sphere, cylinder

      See also

      Editing and merging solids

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Exporting the selected geometry to .OBJ

      Resetting the XForm

      See also

      Grouping the objects

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Utilizing the Geom entities instead of brushes

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Road construction

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Road parameters

      Shape editing

      Align Height Map

      See also

      Painting vegetation

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Vegetation parameters

      See also

      Breaking up tiling with Decals

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Decal parameters

      Decals can have their unique position, rotation, and scale

      See also

      Making caves with Voxels

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Soft Create

      Material

      Copy Terrain

      Creating Prefabs to store in external libraries

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Extract Object and Extract All

      Open/Close

      Pick and Attach/Remove Object and Update Prefab

      See also

      4. Environment Creation

      Introduction

      Creating your first time of day using the basic parameters

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Forcing sky update to true

      Record icon

      Play icon

      See also

      Adjusting the terrain lighting

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Terrain ambient occlusion

      Transition shading from the sun to the moon

      SSAO (screen-space-ambient occlusion)

      See also

      Using the real-time Global Illumination

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Advanced GI Cvars

      See also

      Editing HDR lighting and the effects for flares

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Lights with flare effects

      Glow texture effect produces bloom and flares

      See also

      Creating a global volumetric fog

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Density offset

      Enabling or disabling fog in the Render Settings

      See also

      Creating a night scene with time of day parameters

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      SSAO contrast and amount

      HDRSetup parameters at night

      Moon and corona color and scale

      See also

      Color grading your level

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      _CCH naming convention

      Capturing TGA images as reference images

      Debugging visual glitches

      See also

      Creating a photo realistic ocean

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Animating water parameters

      Caustics

      Free form transformation FFT water

      Improving your sky with clouds

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Cloud shadows

      See also

      Making it rain in your level

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Lightning entity

      Wind

      Fog volumes

      5. Basic Artificial Intelligence

      Introduction

      Placing the enemy AI

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Generating the AI navigation

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Generating AI triangulation

      See also

      Forbidden boundaries

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Forbidden areas

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Setting up the interior navigation

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Auto-Dynamic Points versus Designer Controlled Points

      See also

      Debugging the AI triangulation

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Narrowing the AI's FOV to allow attacks from behind

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Respawning AI

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      AI territory FlowGraph node properties

      AI wave FlowGraph node properties

      6. Asset Creation

      Introduction

      Installing the CryENGINE 3 plugin for 3D Studio Max

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      3ds Max CryTools Maxscripts

      Installing the 3ds Max CryTools Maxscripts

      Uninstalling the 3ds Max CryTools Maxscripts

      See also

      Creating textures using CryTIF

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Editing the CryTif plugin root path

      Adjusting the default presets in the CryTIF dialog

      Manually generating the .DDS output

      See also

      Setting up units to match CryENGINE in 3ds

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Grid and Snap settings

      Measurement reference

      See also

      Basic material setup in 3ds

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Assigning textures in 3ds Max to materials

      Physicalize

      See also

      Creating and exporting static objects

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Physics proxy

      Occlusion geometry

      User defined properties

      See also

      Creating and exporting destroyable objects

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Two-dimensional breakable assets

      Jointed breakables

      User defined properties

      See also

      Using advanced material editor parameters to create animation

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Animated textures

      Vertex deformation

      See also

      Creating new material effects

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Creating new surface types

      Physics block parameters

      Ammo surface types

      See also

      Creating image-based lighting

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Generating all Cubemaps

      Creating a CubeMap with Material Editor

      See also

      7. Characters and Animation

      Introduction

      Creating skinned characters for the CryENGINE

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Materials and characters

      LOD (Level of Detail)

      Bone Attachments

      See also

      Ragdoll and physics for characters

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      IK limits

      ParentFrames

      Dead body entity settings

      See also

      Creating animation for your character

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Changing the animations compression

      .chrparams file Wildcard Mapping

      Animobject entity

      See also

      Previewing animations and characters for Sandbox

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Animation driven motion

      Searching and filtering animations

      Types of animation assets

      See also

      Creating upper body only animations

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Additive animations

      Using additives

      See also

      Creating locomotion animations

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Swimming and vehicle transitions

      Locomotion loops

      Idle to move and 180 degree rotational assets

      See also

      Animating rigid body geometry data

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Pre-baked physics with .CGA objects

      Anim object and pre-baked .CGA

      See also

      8. Creating Vehicles

      Introduction

      Creating a new car mesh (CGA)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Dummy helpers for modification of the parts

      Parts for vehicles and their limitless possibilities

      See also

      Creating a new car XML

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Giving more speed to the car

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Increasing the mass to push objects with the car

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Defining a sitting location

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Setting up multiple cameras for the car

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Need for a machine gun

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Giving the car a weak spot

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      9. Game Logic

      Introduction

      How to beam the player to a tag point from a trigger

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Making the AI go to a location when the player enters a proximity trigger

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      AIGotoEx

      See also

      Debugging the Flow Graph

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Creating a kill counter

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Rewarding the player for reaching a kill goal

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Displaying the player's health through a Flow Graph

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Changing the player camera through key input

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Creating a countdown timer

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      10. Track View and Cut-Scenes

      Introduction

      Creating a new Track View sequence

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Available tracks in the director node

      Sequence properties

      See also

      Animating a camera in the Track View

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      FOV

      Playback speed

      Curve editor

      See also

      Triggering a sequence using the Flow Graph

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Useful debugging trigger

      Start time property

      Break on stop property

      See also

      Animating entities in the Track View

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Entity visibility track

      Animating scale

      Entities and their tracks

      See also

      Playing animations on entities in the Track View

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Loop animation

      Start time

      Time scale

      See also

      Using console variables (CVars) in the Track View

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Animating the CVar values

      T_scale cvar in Track View

      See also

      Using track events

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Removing events from the sequence

      Triggering image nodes for track sequences

      See also

      11. Fun Physics

      Introduction

      Low gravity

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Uniform property

      Gravity sphere

      Hangman on a rope

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Tornadoes

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Constraints

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Constraint properties

      Wrecking ball

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Rock slide

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Physics properties

      Simulation properties

      See also

      12. Profiling and Improving Performance

      Introduction

      Profiling performance in the Sandbox

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Draw Calls

      Triangle count

      Budgets

      See also

      Saving level statics

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Textures tab and render targets

      Physics tris and physics size

      Detailed dependencies tab

      See also

      Enabling the debug draw modes

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Overdraw pixel cost scale

      R_stats 15

      Profiles

      See also

      Optimizing the levels with VisAreas and portals

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Ambient color of VisAreas and portals

      Blind spots

      Using VisAreas and portals vertically

      See also

      Using light boxes and light areas

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Using a concave light shape

      Linking to multiple light shapes

      See also

      Activating and deactivating the layers

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Limits of layer switching

      Cinematics

      See also

      Index

      CryENGINE 3 Cookbook

      CryENGINE 3 Cookbook

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      Sean Tracy is Crytek's Senior Field Application Engineer for the award-wining CryENGINE. He is responsible for adapting the engine and its features to individual licensees, as well as developing full technical and vertical slice demos for prospective and existing clients. Describing himself as a generalizing specialist, he also gives support directly to CryENGINE licensees, while designing and maintaining their workflows, pipelines, and development techniques.

      Sean was recruited by Crytek in 2008 after working as an electronics technician for the Canadian Military. He was recruited due to his role in founding and leading the development on the award winning total conversion project MechWarrior: Living Legends. Since then, he has been featured in numerous gaming magazines and has been invited to speak at many game related trade shows and seminars. He is an avid gamer with extensive modding experience on titles including Never Winter Nights, the Battlefield engine Frostbite, Doom, and Quake.

      I would like to thank my wife for her understanding and support throughout the process of writing this book and for her ongoing support in allowing me to do what I truly enjoy for a living. I would also like to thank my brother for co-authoring the book with me as it's a pleasure to be able to work with someone with the same love for the technology as I have. Finally, I'd like to thank Crytek and Packt for their support in allowing me to write this book and for making one of the best game engines in the market.

      Dan Tracy is Crytek's Technical Level Designer for the award-winning CryENGINE and Crysis 2. He is responsible for the creation and maintenance of numerous technical features and external applications used for telemetry and optimization. Viewed as more than a level designer, Dan prides himself on pushing the envelope when it comes to improving both technical and game related designs across multiple production disciplines.

      Dan was recruited by Crytek in 2009 after previously working as a Quality Assurance Technician for BioWare. He was recruited due to his pivotal role in co-founding and leading development on the award winning total conversion project MechWarrior: Living Legends. Since then, he has been featured in numerous gaming magazines and has been interviewed by multiple media outlets. Dan is a passionate gamer, but an even more passionate modder and game designer, with vast knowledge and experience with multiple engines and titles including Never Winter Nights' Aurora, Battlefield's engine Frostbite, Unreal 3, and CryENGINE. This is Dan's first book.

      I would like to thank my friends and family for giving me their support during the crunch time of the Crysis 2 production, which also paralleled the creation of this book. If it wasn't for them, this wouldn't have been possible. I would also like to thank my brother for co-authoring the book with me as well as Crytek for providing me with this amazing opportunity to share my knowledge of CryENGINE with the world. Finally, I'd like to thank Packt for their support and setting this whole project in motion and publishing my first ever book.

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      Preface

      With the overall complexity involved in creating games becoming exceedingly difficult and expensive with every successive console generation, many game developers have turned to middleware engines, such as the CryENGINE, that offer a complete pipeline for the game development process. CryENGINE is a perfect fit for most developers as it allows users to create their content quickly and easily and thus, allow games to meet and exceed current generation quality standards and still be created by fewer and fewer people.

      As CryENGINE 3 is globally recognized as one of the world's most powerful real-time middleware development platforms, with this book we will deliver the best of what the engine has to offer. Through the use of CryENGINE's intuitive and powerful toolset, named Sandbox, designers, artists, animators, and even programmers will be treated to real-time creation and iteration tools for bringing their visions to life.

      What this book covers

      Chapter 1, Getting Started, helps you set up the entire CryENGINE 3 Software Development Kit, which can be a difficult task. This chapter will guide you through the stages in setting up the required folder structure and how to set up your layout for the Sandbox Editor.

      Chapter 2, Sandbox Basics, helps you to learn the basic and most commonly used features provided by Sandbox.

      Chapter 3, Basic Level Layout, helps you create your first Level Layout within the Sandbox Editor and learn some of the more advanced techniques used by designers for object placement and manipulation.

      Chapter 4, Environment Creation, utilizes the CryENGINE 3 rendering tools to create photorealistic environments.

      Chapter 5, Basic Artificial Intelligence, helps you learn the basics of how to the use AI to navigate in your levels.

      Chapter 6, Asset Creation, helps you learn the pipeline of asset creation and export your 3D models to the CryENGINE format.

      Chapter 7, Characters and Animation, describes how to create new characters to be used in the engine along with your own custom

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