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CryEngine 3 Localization Tutorial

CryENGINE

Goals

We are going to learn how to localize text in CryENGINE 3.
We are going to learn how to create a Localization Package for CryENGINE 3.

Tasks

Part I – Localization

Navigate to CryENGINE Game folder (C:\CryENGINE\Game\)
Open Localized folder
For this example, we’re using the English language. Open “English.PAK” with an archive tool like 7-Zip or WinRAR.
Extract contents of “English.PAK”

Creating our Animation Set

CryENGINE

It CAN be Tested!

At this point – if you open CryEngine… what you should have is an Entity you can drag and drop into levels which will be fully interact able weapon (incapable of damage since the collision is in a totally borked spot.) And once you grab the weapon, a lot of red text saying the animation doesn’t exist.
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Writing Weapon Scripts

CryENGINE

At this point we have three files. A material (baseball_bat.mtl), a third person geometry file (baseball_bat_tp.cgf) and a first person character file (baseball_bat_fp.chr). It’s not enough to get a weapon into the engine. But to test that it’s working (and we should at this point) we could drag the CGF file into a map as level-geometry. To test the CHR file, use the Character Editor.
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First Person Weapon Asset

CryENGINE

You’ll create a separate file from the source model. You’ll want to name this file similar to the third-person file, except use _fp as a suffix. (Mine is baseball_bat_fp.ma) And add onto it – a joint at the origin (name it weapon), and another at the weapons end-point (where you want the collision to happen.) Duplicate this second joint twice. (We need three joints, name them: weapon_01, collision, and weapon_term)

With the joints in place, bind the mesh to the initial weapon root.
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