Creating animation for your character

Characters wouldn't be very interesting without animations! In this recipe, we will cover the basic task of animating a character and exporting that animation to be played later in Sandbox.

Getting ready

There are four important steps involved in preparing and animating your character from CryENGINE 3:

• Creating a character and export a .chr file

• Entering the character's information into the .cba file

• Animating the character and export a .caf file

• Adding the exported .caf file to the character's .chrparams file

Use the SDK sample asset character to start this recipe, as the character creation process has already been discussed in previous sections.

How to do it...

First, let's open the character in the character editor:

1. Open the character editor and open the Objects/Characters/neutral_male/sdk_character_male_v2.cdf. It is important to verify that your character is working in the engine before we can begin with animation.

2. We will now open the animations.cba file...