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Powerful particles. Astonishing animations. Once you have located the. To install them, simply copy the LoadCryTools. The tools that we have just installed are used by 3D artists and some multi-role designers to create models and other content for use within games.
Having installed the required tools, let's now download and open the source sample assets and to do so we will perform the following steps:. The source sample assets are provided as examples by Crytek. They are very useful as a learning tool and can also be used within your project. There are full characters, vehicles, and vegetation samples that can be used directly or simply as reference to verify the setup of your own assets.
The textures we will create throughout the course of this book will be created or edited using Adobe Photoshop. It's important to realize though that the. TIF format images are not used when rendered in the launcher or even the editor, but they are rather converted to a more optimized format, in this case from a. TIF file to a.
The following steps show how to install the plugin and save files in the. TIF format:. If your texture has an alpha channel on it, the CryTIF plugin will detect this and change its conversion process automatically. Next, select File Save As in Photoshop.
Save this file as a CryTIF. TIF file type. This format should now be available as a file format in the Photoshop file dialog. When saving a. TIF file, the CryTif plugin displays a dialog to the user where the compression settings may be selected. The settings that get chosen in the dialog are stored as metadata on the TIF file.
We have finally installed all the tools required for us to make an amazing amount of content from code, to textures, to models, and animation! Having done this, we are now ready to find out how to start putting everything together!
It is likely, if you are developing a game based on CryENGINE—whether you are an artist, programmer, animator, or designer—you will have to use it at some point of time. Fortunately, you'll find it to be an extremely powerful tool with a deep assortment of subsystems available to just about anyone involved in a game's development process.
Let's open the editor so that we can see the sample level from a developer's perspective. Perform the following steps:. Once the editor is open, go to File Open. Browse to the Forest. The editor application will then load the example map forest for us with which to experiment. Upon switching to game, you will be able to instantly play as if you had loaded the level in the launcher.
Using this feature, you are able to play the sample map the same way in the editor as you would in the launcher. This fact proves invaluable for iteration, because you can modify the majority of the game without having to restart the editor.
It should be understood, however, that this is the emulated version of the game and doesn't fairly represent performance in the launcher as there is added overhead to running the Sandbox Editor and various debug modes. We have just learned how to launch and run a level in the editor and also how to simulate playing in the launcher.
We will explore the interface to Sandbox in the next chapter of this book and do not be alarmed if the interface is a bit foreign to you. Now that we have run the two principal applications of the engine, we should take some time to learn the interface to the development application CryENGINE Sandbox. The ability to navigate levels is a basic skill with which all developers should be familiar. Thankfully, this interface is quite intuitive to anyone who is already familiar with the WASD control scheme popular in most first-person shooter games developed on the PC.
If not already done, open the Forest. The window highlighted in the previous screenshot is the perspective viewport; this is where you can see the level.
The perspective viewport is used as the main window to view and navigate and even edit your levels. This is where a large majority of your level will be created and common tasks such as object placement, terrain editing, and in-editor play testing will be performed. Sandbox is designed to be ergonomic for both left-handed and right-handed users. For this example, we will use the WASD control scheme, but it should be noted that the arrows keys are also supported for movement of the camera.
Now that you have learned to move the camera on its main primary axis, it's time to adjust the rotation of the camera. The following steps will indicate the same:. When the viewport is the active window, hold down the right mouse button, and move the mouse pointer to turn the view. Finally, you can hold down Shift to double the speed of the viewport movements. Adjust the Viewport Movement Speed Controls to find the speed with which you are most comfortable.
The Speed input at the bottom of the Perspective window is used to increase or decrease the movement speed of the camera as you move in the main Perspective Viewport. The Viewport allows for a huge diversity of views and layouts which you can use to view your levels. The Perspective view is just one of the many. This view also renders a view of the level using the standard camera perspective, showing all level geometry, lighting, and effects.
These will each be explained later in this book, but for now we need to know how to manipulate and adapt these objects to our desires. You can now simply point and click on objects to select them, or if you'd like to be more accurate, you can hold the Space bar to get a small box selection helper around the object's pivot.
You should now see your gizmo attached to the object's pivot point also known as origin. The gizmo represents the three dimensions of space used within the world otherwise known as axis. Most game engines use Cartesian coordinates which consist of three axes X , Y, and Z. You can switch between the move, scale, and rotate tools by using their toolbar icons or the shortcut keys, which are 1, 2, and 3 respectively.
Change the direction in which you are able to move the object using the constrain to axis tools in the main toolbar. There are six settings; the first three correspond to each axis, and the fourth XY will lock the object so it will not move up or down. The final two are the snap to terrain and snap to terrain and objects. Experiment by changing these values.
To finalize the placement of the object you selected, it will likely be easiest to use snap to terrain highlighted in the following screenshot:. This will snap the object to the first physical surface under the mouse cursor. Notice that when you selected the object, particular properties appeared in the RollupBar. The RollupBar is where entity parameters, settings, and controls are listed and accessed.
These parameters will depend on the type of objects you have selected, but it should be known that this is the primary way to adjust any aspect of entities within the Sandbox. The top of the RollupBar is split into four very different panels, which are accessed from their corresponding tabs.
They are as follows:. The first tab contains the object and entity creation tools for the editor, as well as being the tab that will display all entity-specific information and dialogs. The second tab is the overall environmental, vegetation, and terrain editing tools. It should be noted that these tools are usually used to modify the specific level you have loaded in Sandbox. Finalize the placement of your object and experiment by selecting and moving different entities within the sample level.
You have just learned, arguably, the most important ability within Sandbox and that is the ability to move and shape the levels and worlds. One of the greatest strengths that this gives us now is the ability to iterate quickly and with a full preview of what the placement will look like in the game, including full physics and gameplay using the switch to game function.
Having moved some objects around, we might be happier with the new placement of them, or simply want to save the level for further modification. In order to do that, perform the following steps:. Go to the File menu, and select Save level as. You will now save your. Name the. Click Save , and the. To save to the currently loaded. We have just reviewed how to save our. This container can only be accessed by the editor application.
As some of the greatest ideas have come about from experimentation, challenge yourself by trying a few things, for example:. Use the rotate and scale tools on various entities. Access them using the shortcut keys 2 and 3. Create a prototype platforming game using just dock objects. If you place a series of them at different angles, varying heights, and distances, you can get some rudimentary platforming gameplay.
Alternate between moving objects and then switching to game mode to try to jump from one object to the other. This is where the true power of the Sandbox toolset is shown and that's in speed of iteration.
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