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CryENGINE 3 Cookbook

You're reading from   CryENGINE 3 Cookbook Over 90 recipes written by Crytek developers for creating third-generation real-time games

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849691062
Length 324 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sean P Tracy Sean P Tracy
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

CryENGINE 3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. CryENGINE 3: Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Sandbox Basics 3. Basic Level Layout 4. Environment Creation 5. Basic Artificial Intelligence 6. Asset Creation 7. Characters and Animation 8. Creating Vehicles 9. Game Logic 10. Track View and Cut-Scenes 11. Fun Physics 12. Profiling and Improving Performance Index

Using console variables (CVars) in the Track View


Now that we have learned to create a variety of different sequences, we will explore some of the bridges that the Track View has designed within to communicate to different systems within the CryENGINE.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will add some console commands to the Track View sequence created in the first and the second recipes of this chapter. These two recipes must be already created to go forward.

You should have the cut-scene my_first_cutscene open in the Track View and your view set to that of the camera.

How to do it...

Let's learn how to use a console variable key frame in the Track View:

  1. Right-click the parent node of your first cut-scene and add a console variable:

  2. You will then be asked to name this console variable.

    It is very important that you name the console variable with the exact name of the variable you would type into console to achieve the same effect.

  3. For this example, set the name to e_TimeofDaySpeed.

    You will see that...

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