CryENGINE®3 is the first PC, Playstation®3, and Xbox 360™ all-in-one game development solution that is Next-Gen ready with scalable computation and graphics technologies. Using the CryENGINE®3, you can start the development of your next generation games today. CryENGINE®3 is the only game engine that provides multi-award winning graphics, state-of-the art lighting, physics and AI, out of the box. The famous CryENGINE®3 Sandbox™ editor is a production proven, third-generation real-time tool suite designed and built by AAA developers. CryENGINE®’s powerful real-time renderer is now even better!
DirectX 11 (DX11) support significantly enhances the capabilities of the renderer within CryENGINE®3, allowing for some of the best visuals ever seen. Crytek Places More Power at Developers' Fingertips with the Arrival of the next free CryENGINE 3 SDK Update. Further increasing the creative power at developers' fingertips, Crytek today announced the arrival of a feature-filled update to its award-winning game development solution, CryENGINE 3. The CryENGINE 3 SDK now presents users with brand new tools to tap into, including revamped DirectX 11 tessellation, advanced character rendering options, improved AI system and much more. Among the key enhancements free CryENGINE 3 SDK users can look forward to in version 3.4 are:.
An massive update has been released with the latest version of the Free CryENGINE 3 SDK 3.4.0. Most importantly introducing DirectX 11 Tesselation support. CryENGINE® 3 is a highly advanced development solution that surpasses all expectations for the creation of blockbuster games, movies, high-quality simulations, and.
Revamped DirectX 11 Tessellation DX11 support and tessellation has come a long way since Crysis 2. Phong, PN triangles and displacement maps, along with no need for pre-tessellated assets, makes CryENGINE's DX11 support among the best in the industry. Multi-layer Navigation Mesh The multi-layer navigation is a powerful new and easy-to-use navigation system that AI agents utilize to path-find through game maps.
Improved Skin Rendering and Eye Shader New scattering approach gives more realistic rendering with fewer artifacts. New settings, checkboxes and sliders for things like oiliness, iris control, colors, pupil dilatation, tessellation and parallax support make CryENGINE character rendering more advanced and customizable than ever before. Advanced/Improved/Extended Glass Shader The glass shader is a specialized tool for rendering glass-based surfaces.
It can represent a wide range of glass types, including regular windows, stained glass, leaded glass, beveled glass, some crystal types and some types of transparent plastics as well. The improved glass shader now also boasts features such as a dirt layer designed to produce extremely realistic-looking glass surfaces complete with dust and dirt, differential fog and refraction blur. On top of these key updates, version 3.4 of the free CryENGINE 3 SDK addresses a number of bugs from previous releases and gives developers access to further improvements that include:. Improved glass rendering. Geometric light beams.
Point light shafts. Time of day based filmic HDR tone mapping. Curves and key tangents for time of day.
User controlled per cascade shadow bias through time of day. Improved transitions between levels of detail. Volumetric fog features extended and improved. Improved distance cloud shading. CryENGINE 3 3.4.0 SDK Changelog. Refactored UI game events.
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Added new UIGameEvent class (moved functions from UIActionEvents to this class). New interface for auto registering to UIManager. Continuous update is not automatically paused/restored when filtering/restoring the visible objects inside sandbox. Pausing the continuous update also when jumping into game in Sandbox. Include node indices in navigation graph debug draw.
DX11 CBuffer Downscale Improvements + fixes. Make sure vehicles can use the Multi-layer Navigation. Added Overwrite All button to checkout dialog. Added FG node to catch and trigger upon animation events set up in character editor. Changed UIEventSystems of old game dll to use new event dispatchers. HUD3D use correct offsets for different resolutions. Now correctly set the alpha for glass phys fragments.
Added variable stable fragment size to glass, meaning smaller pieces can stick nearer edges. Coloured glass particle effects to match glass material (Off by default). Enabled glass cvars in release builds. Fixing EngineAssets location. Add icon and version number to remote shader compiler. Remove some obsolete shaders from the shader list. Gamma changes now respect window focus in Dx10/11 (As per Dx9 in DeviceLost state).
Support for non-uniform phys scaling (clone-based). Set the web server port for the Remote Shader Compiler.
Re-added EFQuery( EFQD3DDevic ). FrameProfileSystem now displays frame time, lost time, and overhead with same averaging method as profile entries. Time of Day: added serialization of key flags for splines. Sandbox, Time of Day: added toolbar for Spline editor, dockable frames.
Added 'Reverse' to MaterialEffect particle hit direction options. Add GeometryBeam inside the Sandbox shader list. Remote Shader Compiler to VS2010. Set aiMNMEditorBackgroundUpdate to 1 by default. Shadowpool caching support, blockpacker usage fixed. Being able to choose an entity class category from within Lua scripts and external entity class handlers used inside the Editor, instead of always putting them into 'Default'. Added callback to handle glass system cvar changes.
Tidies up the temp crash fix. Enabled the new glass system by default when in multiplayer. Implements the light animation by (ab)using the light node in the movie system.
Adds position/rotation animation support to the light animation system. Makes it possible to scrub a light animation through the regular TrackView interface. Move more textures to Engine EngineAssets. Lua debugger GUI improvements. Added GameScript projects to GameCodeOnly solutions.
Implements the film curve preview in the Time Of Day dialog. New UIEvent receiver and sender helpers for variable args and arg count. Some helper functions for easier UIEventDesc creation. Allow to use Vec3 as type for UIEvent FlowNode ports.
Rework TemplBeamProc 1. Air Turbulence 3. Volumetric Shadows.
Re-add start and end colors. Simple tool to check flags. New glass shader featuring: Improved lighting consistency.
Support for opaque layer, tint color map, alphatest shadows using opaque map, blurred refraction (High end only). Removed support for alphablended non-refractive glass.
Tidied up legacy code. Glass Shader: Added diffuse multiplier to vertex alpha. Glass Shader: Added global opacity multiplier.
Enable geometry instancing by default. Changed UIEventSystems to use new easier style (new game dll first). Improve default values for film curve tod settings. Add MotionBuilder 2012 exporter to be built in the tools solution file. Updated UpdateCryGameScriptsProject. HUD3d position C2 calculation. Database Save button now enabled/disabled depending on count of modified libraries.
Added cvar to define if mp should be auto added to sound files on mp. Enhanced particle MaterialEffects, allowing direction type to be specified per-effect, same as other effect modifiers. Compatible with ealier XML that specifies it per group. Allow lazy updates for flash elements. Allow to override dyn tex with from uielement.
Only render uielelemnt to dyn tex if needed (with lazy render flag) Optimizations:. Removed useless GUID info from ParticleEffects. Resizing and 'Look & Feel' of the solid panel. Perf improvements to glass triangle hashing loop. Saving of 300 bytes per glass RN by removal of temp vars and class restructuring.
Swapped a large continuous glass array for a smaller cyclic one. Up to 40kb PC and 10kb consoles saved. Glass impact decal params are now only calculated once instead of every frame. Using CTRL + Middle Mouse to add/remove a flowgraph breakpoint. ITimer and FrameProfile systems now consistently use CryGetTicks, replacing runtime tests and function pointers. Removed unused members in ProfilerInfo. Added state to SParticleUpdateContext to reduce repeated computations.
Integration of multi-particle ParticleEmitter.EmitParticles change. Sped up emit rate/count computation in SubEmitter.EmitParticles.
Cache EmitCountScale, avoid calling GetExtent during particle emission. Removed SAnimationDesc struct from code and new AnimGraph files, following C2 behavior. Replaced with runtime functions to compute SAnimationMovement and get SAnimationSelectionProperties. Removed unused GetAnimationLength functions. Adjusting view distance ratio on a few object for consistency. Sandbox Rollupbar resizing and 'look & feel'.
Cleaned up gamma ramp calculations, now round results correctly. Prevent execution of sound creation code with an empty sound name string and display of an unnecessary error message to the log Refactoring:. Little simplification to tod sun shadow cascades control/removed hdr contrast control. Tweakable per-cascade shadow bias. Significantly improve shader compilation speed by replacing fxc with cryfxc. Move cryfxc into PCD3D11/v005. Adding d3d compiler dll to be complete.
Rename ÞTAILMAPPING back to ÞTAILBUMPMAPPING to maintain backward compatibility. Added inline tick functions to ITimer: GetTicks, GetTicksPerSecond, TicksToSeconds. Removed silly virtual TicksToMillis/Nanos. Also added GetNonFiberTicks, which subtracts FiberYieldTime, simplifying a lot of code.
Removed redundant tick functions and members from FrameProfileSystem. Movd OPTSTRUCT facilities from TypeInfo.h to platform.h. Made member and acccessor names more consistent: Member, Accessor, Setter(val). Remove not needed ifdef GAMEISCRYSIS2.
Branch refactoring. Update the ToolkitPro.dll inside the Tools directory.
Removed support for deprecated fog mode. Prerequisite for coming volumetric fog enhancements. Add parser support for shader interpolator arrays. Terrain non linear alpha blending factor support ('blend layer'). Updates for per-light shadow bias / lights specular was mismatching sun specular / tone mapper curve tod control / brute force dof quality mode+ resolution scale fix.
Separates the HDR parameters and packs together with the film curve preview in the TimeOfDay dialog. Absolutely stunning changelog but remember this isn't like the source SDK or something. All those props and animations and models in there, Crytek made themselves.
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So would any indie people that use the SDK. A lot of people don't really understand the point of the SDK currently since you're forced to make your own games from total scratch, and yet, can't release them paid-for. Its all a free license.
So you're forced to pay out of pocket for models, animations, scripts and properties for your own indie game basically, but all you can essentially do is release it as a free mod. In any case thats food for thought. This is still a ridiculously cool changelog, but not many people have the resources to make their own stuff needed to actually enjoy it, unless you like toying around in the 5x5 test map they have.
CryENGINE®3 is the first PC, Playstation®3, and Xbox 360™ all-in-one game development solution that is Next-Gen ready with scalable computation and graphics technologies. Using the CryENGINE®3, you can start the development of your next generation games today. CryENGINE®3 is the only game engine that provides multi-award winning graphics, state-of-the art lighting, physics and AI, out of the box. The famous CryENGINE®3 Sandbox™ editor is a production proven, third-generation real-time tool suite designed and built by AAA developers. CryENGINE®’s powerful real-time renderer is now even better! DirectX 11 (DX11) support significantly enhances the capabilities of the renderer within CryENGINE®3, allowing for some of the best visuals ever seen.
Below, you'll find just a fraction of the features available in CryENGINE®3! Tessellation CryENGINE®3 now supports DX11 hardware accelerated tessellation on all meshes, including animated characters. Artists can now enable tessellation in real-time!
CryENGINE®3 features support for three different types of tessellation, all of which can be mixed so as to significantly increase the quality of asset rendering in-game. With displacement mapping CryENGINE®3 can now represent silhouettes and complex geometric shapes, previously impossible with current generation bump mapping, through displacement mapping. The other two tessellation methods are designed for mesh refinement, taking a coarse, or low-poly model and using tessellation to create an higher-fidelity and much smoother mesh. As these methods are all editable in real-time in CryENGINE®3 SandboxTM, artists can easily decide which assets should use such features, finding an ideal compromise between visual fidelity and performance. Real-time Local Reflections (RLR) Reflections are one of the biggest challenges in real-time rendering, particularly for deferred rendering and lighting engines. Before DX11, only reflections for surfaces such as water; or environment probe reflections have been possible. CryENGINE®3 now introduces a new method: Real-time Local Reflections (RLR).
RLR approximates ray-traced HDR reflections local to objects. This technique allows for any kind of curved surface in the scene to reflect the nearby surroundings efficiently in real time. This includes immensely complex objects with self-reflections, which are not feasible with cube-map or planar reflections. Parallax Occlusion Mapping (POM) Parallax Occlusion Mapping (POM) returns in CryENGINE®3, optimized for all platforms and can now be used to add self-shadowing and the appearance of depth on all surfaces. CryENGINE®3’s POM efficiently approximates surface displacement in tangent space. Due to it’s low cost on all platforms, self-shadowing support and simulation of macro details, POM grants a viable alternative to tessellation on all surfaces. Advanced Tone Mapping with HDR S-Curve The CryENGINE® tone-mapper is improved and updated to give users S-Shaped curve color control, which better mimics the exact behavior of film tone reproduction.
This allows for a wider tonal range, improved definition on the dark tones, giving a richer color space for CryENGINE®3 games. Ocean and Water Rendering CryENGINE®3’s trademark, benchmark setting water rendering just got better! All water volumes can now use DX11 hardware tessellation. Mesh geometry is dynamically tessellated, varying by the distance from the camera. This allows for a very high amount of geometry details close to the camera and eliminates geometry aliasing. Shading has also been updated: now supporting sub-surface scattering and wave crest foam approximation. CryENGINE®3 water also offers a more accurate surface normal computation, even allowing shader based ripples to interact with the CryENGINE® physics system.
Natural lighting & dynamic soft shadows CryENGINE®3 features near-reality natural lighting at a low cost on multiple platforms, and creates soft shadows that dynamically respond to natural movements in real-time. High-resolution, perspective-correct and volumetric smooth-shadow implementations are also included in CryENGINE®3. Deferred lighting The unique CryENGINE®3 deferred lighting solution allows the efficient rendering of a vast number of light sources with per-pixel shading.
It can also considerably simplify engine performance tuning across multiple platforms. SSDO-Screen Space Directional Occlusion and Contact Shadows Crytek introduced SSAO in real-time gaming and now enhances it with the new technique of Screen Space Directional Occlusion (SSDO). SSDO allows any number of lights to be included in the calculation of Ambient Occlusion (AO); and for the color of all lights to be taken into account. SSDO improves physical lighting accuracy and provides dynamic contact shadows, even from the efficient CryENGINE®3 deferred ambient lights.
The new CryENGINE®3 DX11 renderer allows contact shadows to be cast from every single light source in the game environment! CryENGINE® 3 SANDBOX™ - THE ULTIMATE MULTI-PLATFORM TOOLSET CryENGINE®3 Sandbox™ gives developers full control over their multi-platform creations in realtime. It features many improved efficiency tools that enable the fastest development of game worlds and game-play available on PlayStation®3, Xbox 360™ and PC.
All features of CryENGINE®3 games can be produced, edited and played immediately with the “What You See Is What You Play” (WYSIWYP) system. Below, you'll find just a fraction of the features available in CryENGINE®3 Sandbox™! Flow graph CryENGINE®3’s simple yet powerful visual editing system in gives designers intuitive interfaces to create and control events, triggers and game logic.
This lets them build game play systems and complex levels without needing to write a single script. TRACK VIEW EDITOR The Track View is the embedded Sandbox cut scene editing tool for making interactive movie sequences with time-dependent control over objects and events in CryENGINE®3. Creating cinematic cut scenes and scripted events are both possible, allowing you to sequence objects, animations, and sounds in a scene that can be triggered in the game, and played either as a detached cutscene from the third person view, or from the first person perspective of the player in-game.
Fully flexible time of day system The time of day can dynamically change during a game mission to reflect the position of the sun and moon, as well as lighting and atmospheric conditions over any predefined day/night cycle, from a foggy morning sunrise to a fiery sunset or a clear moonlit night. Create visually rich time-of-day simulation for your game world or its locations and achieve the most realistic or surreal settings. Advanced terrain system with integrated voxel objects technology CryENGINE®3 features the only real-time terrain tool-set that enables the creation of stunning concave environmental features.
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This lets designers place over-hanging cliffs, caves or tunnels seamlessly in each level. Multi-Layer Navigation Mesh The Multi-Layer Navigation Mesh (MNM), is an enhanced dynamic navigation data structure used by AI Agents to path-find through levels. This system is integrated in CryENGINE®3 SandboxTM; designers can simply use the tools to define areas where the navigation mesh should be generated and let the CryENGINE®3 MNM do the rest of the work! MNM also supports real-time dynamic updates in game, so that when an area changes, the navigation mesh updates without delay.
Multi-core support To get the most out of modern multi-core processor architectures, CPU-intensive sub-systems of CryENGINE®3 such as graphics, physics, AI, networking and sound, have been optimized to support multiple processors, including innovative support for PlayStation®3 SPU. Uber-shader technology CryENGINE®3 shaders are written once in a high-level language, then compiled automatically to each platform. The shader output is optimized based on the artists’ settings and the 3D environment in which the shader is used. This creates unique, high-performance effects, such as “cloaking” or wet, muddy and frozen surfaces, which can be layered together and combined with other shaders such as metal, glass and a full range of similar visual effects. CryENGINE®3 supports real-time per-pixel lighting, bumpy reflections, refractions, volumetric glow effects and animated textures to simulate effects including windows, bullet holes and shiny surfaces.
It also takes advantage of the unified shader architecture of current and next-gen hardware. The combination of deferred lighting and this technology lets CryENGINE®3 avoid the traditional shortcomings of solely using uber shaders.
Interactive & destructible environments All environments in CryENGINE®3 can be dynamically physicalized, regardless of their nature (wood, steel, concrete, natural vegetation, cloth and soft body physics). This allows procedural destruction and deformation of as much of the environment as the game requires. All broken objects and parts can be interactive, with realistic properties such as mass or buoyancy applied to all kinds of debris.