CRYENGINE posts on Ivan Hawkes

Chrysalis Update for 2020-08-02

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In this article I will cover recent progress on my project, Chrysalis.

Adding EnTT ECS to Chrysalis

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

In this article I will discuss the process I followed and the results of integrating the EnTT Entity Component System (ECS) into Chrysalis.

Switching to CRYENGINE 5.3 New Entity System

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

In this article I will cover the changes I made to Chrysalis for the release of CRYENGINE 5.3. Some were required due to old code being deprecated, others were simply improvements over the previous way of doing things.

First Person and Action RPG Cameras

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — 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).

Controlling an Animated Character in CRYENGINE using C++

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Making an animated character move around the screen in CRYENGINE requires many thousands of lines of code and a lot of time and dedication. This series of articles will show you how to control a character animated in CRYENGINE Mannequin using C++ code.

CRYENGINE 3.7 Source Control and Perforce

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Fri, 01 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

In this article I will try to cover the issue of source control, particularly for a CRYENGINE 3.7 project. I will touch on what it is, why you need it, and briefly on how to implement a decent source control system.

CRYENGINE Flowgraphs - Blacklists and Substitutions

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — 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.

Matrices, Vectors, Quaternions and CryEngine 3

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This article will introduce you to matrices, vectors and quaternions and how you can use them for programming games using the CryEngine SDK. You will only need a basic understanding of mathematics, beginner level c++ and a general knowledge of the CryEngine SDK; in particular, the gamesdk.dll code which is written in c++.

CryEngine 3 System Event Dispatcher

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — 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

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — 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.

Adding New Actions to CryEngine 3 FreeSDK

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This tutorial will help you add new actions into CryEngine 3 FreeSDK projects without needing to make any changes to the base code provided by CryTek.

Joining StoneRage

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — 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

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — 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

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — 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.

On Building a World

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

To date I’ve been focusing on making my little zone with little regard for the world around it. Till now it’s been acceptable to know just the prime locale of the zone, but it’s been niggling at me that I don’t know it’s location on a world map, it’s climate, or even the location of the sun.

Creating Interesting Terrain

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

At first blush terrain might seem like a fairly easy thing to be able to create, and at it’s simplest it might well be. Toss a few mountains about, some rolling hills, a valley or two, a little water, and you’re done - or are you?

Sunset Oasis

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — 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

ivan.hawkes@gmail.com (Ivan Hawkes) — 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.