CryEngine Free :O

Agret · May 6, 2011, 9:37pm

Crytek has big plans for modders. Editing tools for Crysis 2 and the CryEngine 3 platform will be released for free in the coming months.

The mod-happy tools will be unleashed in two parts. The first to arrive will be an editor for Crysis 2, coming “early in summer” that will let modders build new maps, items and other content for the stunning-looking shooter.

Next, in August it will release the full CryEngine 3 SDK for free to anyone who fancies dabbling in the more complex side of the powerful engine. CEO & president of Crytek Cevat Yerli says it will be the complete and full version of the SDK used to create Crysis 2, and encourages users to “be creative” with it.

“This will be a complete version of our engine, including C++ code access, our content exporters (including our LiveCreate real-time pipeline), shader code, game sample code from Crysis 2, script samples, new improved Flowgraph and a whole host of great asset examples, which will allow teams to build complete games from scratch for PC,” Yerli said via its official modding blog.

He goes on: “With all this power in your hands - we know you’re going to do some amazing things with the engine, so we’re working out how best to support you. We’ll also be sharing our documentation with you, which is written by the developers of the engine, and we’ll be giving you a new and improved crymod.com. We’ll update the Free CryENGINE SDK regularly, to make sure you have access to all the advances we make to CryENGINE 3.”

The firm will also support those who wish to sell their creations. “If you want to use it to make a game to launch commercially, we’d like to help you with that. If you want to take your product down a traditional commercial route, we will offer an innovative low cost licensing model if you want to release your game digitally,” said Yerli.

PRETTY COOL AMIRITE GAIZ?

gllt · May 6, 2011, 9:41pm

quick make a zelda clone

Jatz · May 6, 2011, 10:55pm

that sounds so cool.

Developer · May 7, 2011, 3:15am

GraalReborn now powered by CryEngine.

O noes. The fake 3d will be so amazing! <3

tricxta · May 7, 2011, 4:36am

lol yum

Jatz · May 7, 2011, 4:38am

do want

DO WANT

tricxta · May 7, 2011, 5:08am

WANT DO

Nalin

Cadavre · May 7, 2011, 6:05am

yeah, lets take an overkill 3d engine and render 2d with it!

kalzor · May 7, 2011, 9:53am

[QUOTE=Cadavre;72140]yeah, lets take an overkill 3d engine and render 2d with it! ;)[/QUOTE]

.best.idea.ever.

Nalin · May 7, 2011, 10:16am

[QUOTE=Cadavre;72140]yeah, lets take an overkill 3d engine and render 2d with it! ;)[/QUOTE]
we gonna shader up the place bitch

gllt · May 7, 2011, 3:25pm

wow my shader 3.0 skills are rusty
so rusty my new laptop has shader 5.0

shit

i used to make an awesome 2D Gaussian blur based bloom that i totally stole every scripting element out of from somewhere else

Spooon · May 7, 2011, 5:25pm

what the fuck is going on?

Agret · May 9, 2011, 4:59am

I am tempted to make an Avatar game for the hell of it just to mess with the Cryengine, will rip the models from the PC Avatar game cause I heard it has awesome models & gfx but terrible terrible awful game.

pac300 · May 10, 2011, 1:51am

Psssht UDK 4 lyfe

Dontar · May 10, 2011, 10:26pm

Unreal Crysis 2014 >.>

Nalin · May 13, 2011, 2:08am

[QUOTE=pac300;72806]Psssht UDK 4 lyfe[/QUOTE]
Unreal needs to die already.

Alex · May 13, 2011, 7:32pm

Unreal engine? That engine is AMAZING

Nalin · May 13, 2011, 9:08pm

[QUOTE=Alex;73387]Unreal engine? That engine is AMAZING[/QUOTE]
No. It is buggy, stupid, and needs to die. I mean, even anti-aliasing is broken by default. Game studios have to program their own custom anti-aliasing routines because of the fucking Unreal engine.

Alex · May 13, 2011, 9:37pm

Sorry, I guess I don’t know much about the behind-the-scenes parts of it x.x

On the iPhone, they really spin out that it is an amazing engine x.x