Cryengine Material Setup

leleuxart

I was wondering how the Cryengine material editor is set up. I know it's basically an uber-shader with checkboxes and stuff, but is there any sort of node editor with extra options? For a sci-fi scene I'm about to start, I'd like to do something with multimaps and colors(like using constants to add color to a mask basically). I'm limited to about 8 weeks before I graduate and I'd like to learn CryEngine before then(aiming for an internship at Crytek), but I'm also hoping to do some complex materials with multimaps and atlases (and to cut down on texturing time). Should I just stick to UDK for this and do a smaller CryEngine scene later?

Harford

Check out the great tutorials on Eat3d. Otherwise the crydev site docs have all the info in.

ParoXum

You wont be able to split channels and deal with multimaps no. You'll have to follow the structure offered by the master shader.

leleuxart

Thanks for the suggestions. I searched Google, the documentation, and the CryDev forums and found only one good answer... which is essentially no. Oh well, guess it's back to UDK for now.