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Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development

You're reading from   Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development Create stunning 3D multiplayer games with integrated cloud-based features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460868
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr. Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.
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Preface 1. Welcome to the Lumberyard FREE CHAPTER 2. Planning Your Game in the Lumberyard 3. Constructing an Immersive 3D Game World 4. Creating 3D Characters 5. Animating Your Characters 6. Creating Gameplay 7. Creating Multiplayer Gameplay 8. Bringing Your Game to Life with Audio and Sound Effects 9. Employing Cloud Computing and Storage 10. Engaging With Users Using Twitch 11. Providing Your Game to the World 12. Stretching Your Lumberyard Wings

Creating terrain


Terrain is the surface area of our game world. It will consist of the ground, mountains, water, and other earthly features. Careful planning is recommended when determining how the terrain will look. Your game's players will be fully exposed to what you create and will want to be impressed. If you are making a combat game set in the modern world, having purple grass and trees with feathers might not make sense. Our goal with our terrain is to have it support immersion and not be a distraction.

We'll start by creating terrain texture layers and then assigning materials to those layers.

Creating terrain texture layers

Follow these steps to first create, and then create textures for, the terrain:

  1. Using the pull-down menus, select View | Open View Pane | Material Editor.

  2. Leave the Material Editor window open and select View | Open View Pane | Terrain Texture Layers.

  3. In the Terrain Texture Layers window, click the Add Layer option three times. We will create three different textures...

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