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CryENGINE 3 Game Development: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   CryENGINE 3 Game Development: Beginner's Guide Discover how to use the CryENGINE 3 free SDK, the next-generation, real-time game development tool with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849692007
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

CryENGINE 3 Game Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introducing the CryENGINE 3 Free SDK FREE CHAPTER 2. Breaking Ground with Sandbox 3. Playable Levels in No Time 4. I'm a Scripter, Not a Coder 5. C++ and Compiling Your Own Game Code 6. User Interface and HUD Creation with Flash 7. Creating Assets for the CryENGINE 3 8. Creating Real-time Cutscenes and Cinematic Events 9. Immersion through Audio Design 10. Preparing to Share Your Content Pop Quiz Answers Index

Developing out of the box


As mentioned earlier, the CryENGINE 3 SDK has a huge amount of out-of-the-box features for creating games.

Let's begin by following a few simple steps to make our first game world.

Before proceeding with this example, it's important to understand the features it is displaying; the level we will have created by the end of this chapter will not be a full, playable game, but rather a unique creation of yours, which will be constructed using the first major features we will need in our game. It will provide an environment in to which we can design gameplay.

With the ultimate goal of this chapter being to create our own level with the core features immediately available to us, we must keep in mind that these examples are orientated to compliment a first-person shooter and not other genres. The first-person shooter genre is quite well defined as new games come out every year within this genre. So, it should be fairly easy for any developer to follow these examples.

In my...

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