Introduction to CryENGINE
In this CryENGINE tutorial, we will learn the fundamentals to creating beautiful levels in the widely popular game engine CryENGINE. Software required: CryENGINE Free SDK (version 3.4, Build 3696).
What you'll learn
In this CryENGINE tutorial, we will learn the fundamentals to creating beautiful levels in the widely popular game engine CryENGINE.
We'll start off by learning how to download and install the CryENGINE SDK. Once all of that's out of the way, we'll jump into generating and modifying the terrain. From there, we'll ramp up the action by painting materials on our terrain, adding vegetation, props, water, clouds, boids and so much more.
This tutorial covers all of the major features you'll need to get up and running in CryENGINE and by the end of the course, you'll not only have created an immersible level but you'll have all the knowledge you need to begin creating your own levels.
Software required: CryENGINE Free SDK (version 3.4, Build 3696)
Table of contents
- Installing the CryENGINE Free Sdk 6m
- Navigation and Interface Overview 14m
- Generating Terrain 11m
- Modify Terrain Tool Basics 11m
- Adding a Basic Material Using the Layer Painter 8m
- Blocking in the Level Using the Layer Painter 11m
- Blocking in the Main Play Area 14m
- Blocking in the Rest of the Play Area 12m
- Refining the Main Play Area 13m
- Creating the Path Textures 11m
- Adding Roads 10m
- Vegetation Basics 11m
- Adding Our First Layer of Vegetation 11m
- Adding Another Layer of Vegetation 13m
- Set Dressing Basics Using Brushes 11m
- Advanced Set Dressing Using Brushes 13m
- Editing the Environment Settings 13m
- Adding Fog 8m
- Adding Doors 9m
- Creating Water Volumes 9m
- Working with Boids 7m
- Organizing the Level Using Layers 9m
- Particle Basics 8m
- Creating Clouds 11m
- Adding Sound 13m
- Voxel Basics 12m
- Building the Cave Interior 11m
- Adding Decals 8m
About the author
Joshua is a devoted games author at Pluralsight. For years Joshua has been a key author behind Digital-Tutors' (now a Pluralsight company) popular game engine training. As a kid, he had a passion for playing video games, which eventually developed into a fascination with the process of game creation. The question of "How'd they do that?" led Joshua on a quest to learn to make these games himself. Ever since then, Joshua has devoted his life to creating games, as well as teaching others to build ... more