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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Begin developing your own games of any scale by learning to harness the power of the Award Winning CryENGINE 3 game engine
Build your game worlds in real-time with CryENGINE 3 Sandbox as we share insights into some of the tools and features useable right out of the box.
Harness your imagination by learning how to create customized content for use within your own custom games through the detailed asset creation examples within the book.
Contains C++ programming examples designed to expose powerful game customization opportunities available to game programmers.
Translate your game design into a functioning game by following the easy step by step examples exploring level building, visual scripting, and many of the other tools within CryENGINE 3.

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CryENGINE is a complete game development environment used by AAA game development studio Crytek to produce blockbuster games such as Crysis 1, 2 and 3. This complete Beginner's Guide takes the would be game developer through the steps required to create a game world complete with event scripting, user interface and 3D environment in the free CryENGINE SDK. Learn to create game worlds with the CryENGINE 3 Sandbox, the tool used to create AAA games like the soon to be released Crysis 3. Follow straightforward examples to sculpt the terrain, place vegetation, set up lighting, create game sounds, script with Lua and code with C++. Learn to navigate the interface within the CryENGINE 3 Sandbox, the tool used to create AAA games like Crysis 1 and 2, as well as the soon to be released Crysis 3. Learn to create your own worlds by following straight forward examples to sculpt the terrain, place vegetation, set up lighting, create game sounds, and script with the Lua language. The book covers all beginner aspects of game development including an introduction to C++ for non- coders.

Who is this book for?

This book is written with the beginner and casual developer in mind. The freely available version of the CryENGINE¬Æ 3 is used for all examples in this book.

What you will learn

Learn to navigate within the CryENGINE 3 Sandbox.
Learn to create your own worlds by following straightforward examples to sculpt and mould the terrain and place vegetation.
Learn to model with the integrated tools available to designers and artist in the CryENGINE3 Sandbox.
Learn methods of visual scripting used to create amazingly complex scripted events
Learn how to start creating and compile C++ game code to create your own custom game.
Learn to use Autodesk Scaleform to create high fidelity 3d heads up displays and menus for the player.
Learn how to create your own custom characters and objects for use within the examples.
Learn to create your own cut scenes, animations and videos using the power of the CryENGINE3 engine to maximize the output.
Learn to use FMOD designer along with the CryENGINE 3 to add sound and music to your game.
Explore some of the key performance and optimization strategies for levels and learn to share your content with others.

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railerswim Mar 28, 2014

I love it! This book has helped me get a great start. I'm halfway through but I have hit some snags because of my limited education (we haven't and won't get into programming xml files or anything at my University, so much for a college education). I already recommended it to my fellow dev team for my indie game company. I ABSOLUTELY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!

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sefirosu777 Oct 23, 2012

I Love the way this book is written. The format is great and the wording is perfect, its easy to understand. A Must have for anyone interested in game development. The only problem I have with it is the terrain_materials folder in missing from the chapter 2 assets. I think that's what is causing the Example_Base_Terrain_Layers.lay to not work, I get an error when I try to open it. Hopefully that will be fixed soon cuz besides that this is the greatest game development book of all time.

Mohamed Dec 23, 2012

No book explains everything regarding game development or a game engine nor it will can.However, CryENGINE 3 Game Development: Beginner's Guide explains all the fundamentals that the CryENGINE 3 Free SDK has. From the introduction, creating levels or sculpting terrain, scripting through Flow Graph, coding in C++, User Interface and HUD creation using Flash, assets, etc... This book will help you begin your first steps through CryENGINE 3 and when you're done, you're ready to create levels and content in this engine.If you're interested to learn creating content through CryENGINE 3 SDK, don't hesitate to buy this book.

S. M. Prinke Dec 25, 2012

For those interested in game developement this book gives information you need on the cryengine. It fills in where other books do not.

W Boudville Nov 06, 2012

It is encouraging that the Cryengine 3 was used to make actual successful games, like the Crysis series. This helps validate the book's appeal to a newcomer. But be aware that the book is not a quick read. Yes, much effort has been expended by the package's developers to streamline the steps you need to do within it to make various and many effects. The reality is that game development has so much in the way of details and coding that is indispensible.Specifically, you need a pre-existing background in programming. This book is not akin to one on, say, webpage design (like this one I recently reviewed, Learning Adobe Muse ). Game development is far more complex. Many details cannot be swept under the rug of an SDK GUI. Consequently, the book has snippets of C++ code that demonstrate certain points of functionality. Oh, and that means you need to know C++. By the way, the choice of C++ is accurate. Serious game programming tends to fall back on C++ as the underlying language of choice, or necessity, to be more pragmatic. C++ and its core originating subset, C, gets close to the silicon, for maximum performance.The book has many recommendations germane to the practicalities of game development. One keen aspect is the use of white boxing. Where you model some object with a simpler geometrical object, in the interests of rapid prototyping. The idea is to get quickly to a baseline functionality so that your testers and you can get feedback on how the game plays. Later, you can go back and build the final object.While I mentioned the need to know C++, it turns out that Cryengine has alternatives. You can do scripting. Here the design flow is more rapid than having to wait for your machine to compile and link in C++ changes. The scripting language is Lua, (see Programming in Lua, Second Edition for a text devoted to it). But Cryengine proffers another and very different scripting approach. The use of visual scripting via what it calls a Flow Graph. This is a graphical drag and drop method of hooking up various entities, from the output of one to the input of another. Very intuitive and akin to chip layout software, if you have that background. Again, to do rapid development, either scripting approach may benefit you.

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