Animated (chr)

In This Topic

• Basics (animated)
  • Modeling (animated) — Learn how to model characters for use in the CryENGINE.
  • Character Budgets — This page will give you a breakdown of a recommended budget for characters which were used for Crytek's previous games.
  • Physics (animated) — This topic details advance joint setups.
    • Ragdoll — This section covers how to create a the proper physics setup for various DCC tools, this includes the Main, Ragdoll and phys mesh skeletons for each.
      • RagDoll Setup: Maya
    • Rope Setup — This topic describes how to set up a rope in 3ds Max and Maya.
    • Cloth Setup — This topic describes how to set up cloth in 3ds Max and Maya.
    • Jiggle Bones — This topic shows you how to work with bone chains.
    • Hair
    • Wrinkle Map Setup
  • Rigging (animated) — This section covers the various rigging tools, guidelines and specific rigging situations.
    • Character Rigging Guidelines — This topic outlines the rules and guidelines for rigging characters to be exported to CryENGINE.
    • Zero Out — Before you create a rig, all the control objects should have their transform values zeroed out. This topic describes how to zero out the values.
    • Biped Rigging — This topic details how to fit the biped to a character, and also further work with it.
    • Setting up Locomotion Locator in 3ds Max
  • Exporting Characters to Engine
  • Character Debugging — This section shows how to import your characters into Sandbox.
• Character (animated)
  • DCC Setup (animated) — This is a complete character creation tutorial that explains the character creation process whether its through 3DS Max or Maya.
    • Character Authoring in 3ds Max — This section covers how to create characters and export from 3ds Max.
    • Character Authoring in Maya
  • Engine Setup (animated)
    • Character Parameters File (chrparams) — Detailed information on all the definitions (LOD, IK, Animation Lists) specified in the .chrparams file for your character.
      • Inverse Kinematics
        • Bone Requirements — Information on bone name requirements for certain features.
        • Limb IK
        • Animation Driven IK — Information about the Animation Controlled Limb IK.
        • Leg and Foot Ground Alignment — Feature to automatically align the legs and feet to a surface.
        • Look IK (lookposes) — LookIK
        • Aim IK (aimposes) — Skeleton Setup
    • Attachment Setup — Learn how to set up and used hinged attachments.
• Boids (animated)