CRYENGINE on Ivan Hawkes

First Person and Action RPG Cameras

Wed, 14 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

In this article I will introduce you to view management within CRYENGINE and then use the existing view management to build a camera manager, a first person camera and a third person orbit camera (action RPG style).

CRYENGINE Flowgraphs - Blacklists and Substitutions

Fri, 20 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

On a large project, such as a game built using CRYENGINE, structure, clarity and consistency can provide decent gains in productivity by reducing the time it takes to comprehend and perform simple tasks. Blacklists and substitutions for Flowgraph Nodes are one way to improve these parts of your project.

CryEngine 3 System Event Dispatcher

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Earlier this week I wrote about CryEngine listener classes in a brief overview. I intimated that they are an excellent way to write code against the CryEngine SDK and today I want to go into more depth.

Introducing CryEngine 3 Event Listeners

Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

In this article I will introduce you to event handling within CryEngine 3 and give a brief overview of the many listeners you can utilise within your project.

Joining StoneRage

Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A few weeks ago I decided to place my own projects on hold and join a team working on a game - specifically the StoneRage game. The developers seemed organised and were well advanced in terms of graphic and environmental production.

How to Make .PAK Files With Your Assets

Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Something that doesn’t seem to receive much coverage is what to do with all your awesome assets once you’ve made your game. You’re going to need to ship them to end users, and the best way is within a .PAK file.

CryEngine 3 - Flowgraph Events

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

As you begin to learn how to program for CryEngine 3 you will run into a lot of barriers. The code is dense, filled with magic numbers, brimming with pre-processor code, macros, and templates and all sorts of traps.

Sunset Oasis

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

My first effort towards building a CTF style game went a little awry. I tried tinkering with the gameplay parameters and added in extra elements and came up with a hybrid that might be interesting when I get back to it. My big mistake though was to create a landmass about 8 times bigger than was really needed. Even using much of it for ocean, I was still left with these way too large spaces for the tight gameplay I wanted.

CryEngine3 and UDK3

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been playing games for over 30 years now and I’ve seen them progress from simple text based games through all the iterations to give us the amazing looking games we have today. I have at times written my own games; most were very simple - due to the nature of the machines at the time.