Preface

With the overall complexity involved in creating games becoming exceedingly difficult and expensive with every successive console generation, many game developers have turned to middleware engines, such as the CryENGINE, that offer a complete pipeline for the game development process. CryENGINE is a perfect fit for most developers as it allows users to create their content quickly and easily and thus, allow games to meet and exceed current generation quality standards and still be created by fewer and fewer people.

As CryENGINE 3 is globally recognized as one of the world's most powerful real-time middleware development platforms, with this book we will deliver the best of what the engine has to offer. Through the use of CryENGINE's intuitive and powerful toolset, named Sandbox, designers, artists, animators, and even programmers will be treated to real-time creation and iteration tools for bringing their visions to life.