Crysis 2 - Editor und CryENGINE 3 Free SDK
Seit einigen Tagen ist die Crymod.com Seite von Crytek offline. Die Jungs arbeiten an der Seite um einige Softwareupdates usw. durchzuführen. Eigentlich sollte die Seite morgen wieder online gehen, jedoch schien nicht alles fertig zu werden, somit geht sie am 29. April wieder online.
Heute kam jedoch ein kleines Update auf der Seite was viele Modder freuen wird. Ein offener Brief für die Community von Crytek, um es genau zu nehmen von Cevat Yerli dem CEO & Präsident von Crytek. In diesem Brief geht es um den Crysis 2 Sandbox Editor sowie um die kostenlose Lizenz der CryENGINE 3. In diesem Sommer wird der schon seit Release erwartete Crysis 2 Sandbox Editor endlich nachgeliefert. Damit haben die Modder die Möglichkeit neue Levels für Crysis 2 zu erstellen. In welchen Umfang werden wir vorher noch erfahren.
Die kostenlose Lizenz der CryENGINE 3 wurde bereits dieses Jahr auf der GDC 2011 in San Francisco angekündigt. Wann die kostenlose Version kommt, war bisher jedoch unklar. Cevat Yerli lüftet das Geheimnis nun in diesem Brief. Im August 2011 - also pünktlich zur GDC und GamesCom 2011 in Köln - soll die kostenlose Version verfügbar sein für alle. Im kostenlosen SDK werden auch die Dokumentationen für die Engine enthalten sein. Sogar die Funktion "Live Create" ist enthalten, womit man auf PC sowie Konsolen gleichzeitig entwickeln kann. Das SDK dient dazu kostenlose Projekte auf der CryENGINE 3 Basis zu veröffentlichen. Wer jedoch auf den Spielemarkt damit will kann dies auch ausüben, dass passiert dann mit den Entwicklern von Crytek zusammen und sie stehen für Fragen usw. offen (dazu muss die Engine jedoch zu einem kleinen Preis gekauft werden).
Alles weitere werden wir dann in den nächsten Monaten erfahren. Wenn ihr auf "Mehr" klickt, könnt ihr euch den offenene Brief durchlesen.
Wir freuen uns auf den Editor demnächst und auf das kostenlose CryENGINE 3 SDK! Zum Schluss noch ein Zitat und das Motto von Crytek: Be Free... Be Creative... Be the Developer
Bis dahin, euer Crysis-HQ.com Team
Related Links:
- CryMod.com
- Crysis 2 - INFO Thread @ Crysis-HQ.com
- Crysis 2 - Diskussionsthread @ Crysis-HQ.com
- CryENGINE 3 - Sammelthread @ Crysis-HQ.com Offener Brief von Cevat Yerli an die Crytek Modding Community:
Be Free... Be Creative... Be the Developer
An open letter to the Crytek Modding Community.
Hello to all of you.
Here at Crytek we value our community, and we love what you do with our engine. In recent times our focus has been heavily on the development of Crysis 2, however our modding community has been, and remains, very important to us.
So, I wanted to tell you about our plans for supporting you in the future with some really exciting news, which I want to share with you now. Modding with the most powerful game engine is coming back!
We want to see what you guys can do with CryENGINE 3 and we hope we'll be as amazed with the things you create as we have been over the past few years. This time around, we're going to do things in a different way - offering you the right tools to achieve your vision.
First of all, we will be launching an Editor for Crysis 2 early in summer. This will allow you to build new maps, items, gameplay modes and more custom content for Crysis 2. For teams looking for even more creative freedom, we have another option: The free CRYENGINE SDK.
Be Free
In August 2011 we will be launching a free CryENGINE SDK. If you want to use it for fun, like all our previous MOD SDKs it will be completely free of charge, to anyone who wants to play with it! You just register, download the SDK with a personalized license key and you're good to go!
Be Creative
We'll be giving you access to the latest, greatest version of CryENGINE 3 - the same engine we use internally, the same engine we give to our licensees, the same engine that powers Crysis 2.
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.
Be The Developer
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.
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.
If you're looking to use CryENGINE for non-gaming purposes, we'll have a per-seat business model for the engine - please enquire at mycryengine.com for further details.
So to go over the details again:
Our next release will be the Crysis 2 Editor, this is for those of you who want to create content for Crysis 2. In August 2011, we will launch our Free CryENGINE SDK for all of you who want to create totally new content on CryENGINE 3. If you just want to make fun, free projects, you can do that free of charge. If you want to try and commercialise your game, we'll be here to help you with that.
I truly value the contribution you have all made to our company and I hope we can continue giving back to you in future.
All the best, Cevat Yerli - CEO & President of Crytek
