Gah me hearties and gash be there me fortune, I has missed my chances at the pieces of eight fer sure, garrrr and garrr again! Pass me the rum I be drownin mah sorrurrhs, gah!

Overbearin wife: Harold?!
Thumb screwed within old fool: What me lovely?
Overbearin wife: Check the garden Harold, I want everything to be nice for our Cheryls wedding in the morning.

Harold: Plants and shrubs - CHECK
Harold: Trees - CHECK
Harold: WEAPONS PACK - OH YES! Say your prayers wifey!

Better off going for all three of them plus Lumberyard. CryEngine (and Lumberyard too) are in the same sort of state that Unreal was in 15 years or so ago in terms of documentation and support. NOBODY at the time wanted to work with it but were forced to due to pressure from publishers. Amazon, after spending a rumoured $50-80m on a deal where they can license and alter the CryEngine engine code, are now concentrating on improving the documentation and support. If they spend as much time and money on working with Lumberyard as I think they will do I can see Lumberyard being in the same state in terms of support and documentation that the Unreal engine is in now in as little as a couple of years time.

I haven't checked the licensing or checked out whether CryEngine assets can be imported into Lumberyard but I'm sure it can be done easily enough.

The CryEngine and Lumberyard engines certainly aren't for beginners but are probably the two best looking engines in the industry at the moment. I'm planning on working on a CryEngine/Lumberyard VR game next year as a hobby. :smile:

Gah, Must've missed this one! :disappointed: This is a cracker! Spot on there, yo.

Gah me hearties and gash be there me fortune, I has missed my chances at the pieces of eight fer sure, garrrr and garrr again! Pass me the rum I be drownin mah sorrurrhs, gah!

Overbearin wife: Harold?!
Thumb screwed within old fool: What me lovely?
Overbearin wife: Check the garden Harold, I want everything to be nice for our Cheryls wedding in the morning.

Harold: Plants and shrubs - CHECK
Harold: Trees - CHECK
Harold: WEAPONS PACK - OH YES! Say your prayers wifey!

Meh. Go with Unreal or Unity if you're deciding on an games engine. Better training materials and a much bigger community for both.

I'm probably not talented enough to do anything with this but it's a good offer!

Nexuiz on BTA? Glad to see they've finally managed to bring the servers back! Nice looking bundle if you're looking to play about with the cryengine.

Should be posted in freebies?

I see

Have you? What are the benefits of learning this over u4 engine? Would love to be convinced as was planning to sit down with unreal tutorials soon!

Bit of a botched launch. It's 1127CET and the CryEngine website still looks like this:


Edit: 1200CET. Guess they're appying the day 1 patch before release.

No idea what this is, but Hot i'm sure it will help someone

My response was not in direct relation to this engine but to anything in life which is complex, you must spend time on it, talent is often another way of saying/expressing I spent a heck of a lot of time on this! Whatever talent you have which is largely interminable especially in the initial stages of learning something, you must spend time and a lot of time to be good at something, and you must allow for gaps, meaning you must stop to let your brain absorb the information, so it means shorter periods of learning 1-2 hours but everyday give or take 1 day break or so in the week, rather than a full on session of 8 hours on one day.

However I would suggest that keeping your interest with anything is seeing something created from your own learning, so I'd recommend Unity (game engine) as there's so many video tutorials out there, and just like Blender (3d Modelling) you can see something which is very complex and professional and actually create it yourself as you follow the tutorial.

YouTube is your friend.

For example here's a very complex object which is a bear represented as a 3D model in this tutorial, and this video tutorial teaches you how to create that object, which if some one told you they made it you would think they were a high end 3D animator, so the fact you can follow a tutorial and create it is the power of education these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCghBIUZyuM

Now what I hope I represented by the above video is that the same principle applies to Unity, you can follow tutorials that will allow you to create a complex and professional looking game and by using what you've learnt, you can adapt that to creating your own games.

I would say for the beginner, that you want to start with something that has a lot of community support, so learn Unity rather than CryEngine, you can learn CryEngine later but you need to learn the basics and then learn the structure of creating games and then once you have more advanced skills your brain will easier adapt, if you take on something which has much less support, you will get stuck, everyone gets stuck, every programmer gets stuck, then for a beginner you need the support and strength to commit your time to solving problems.

So as a beginner programmer you probably wouldn't learn Haskell you'd learn Python or Java as they have the support and they have a wide ranging functionality, once you're a reasonable programmer you can try out stuff such as Haskell.

Anyway this is how I see learning and how I've started to learn new things. I've started programming in my mid 40's, I was never that interested when I was late teens or mid 20's which ideally I should have been, but regret gets you nowhere fast, so I've started now and I'm learning Python and not Haskell and for good reason :smiley: I'm also learning HTML/CSS/Javascript/React/SQL/MongoDB but in a linear order.

Anyone know how many human characters are included if you pay the full amount?

...they've made a right **** out of this launch, haven't they? First, the site wasn't up until well after schedule. Now it's up, but it's not possible to correctly register an account, or sign into an account that's been part-registered. Concerningly, this is what I got when I tried running a password reset -

http://i.imgur.com/9sTWSL9.png

Who the fk is Manuel Galle, and why has my password reset email been CC'd to him?

Edit: Crytek have emailed me back to say that Manuel is one of their employees, and he was set to be CC'd in for testing purposes. They've now fixed this,

If you've spent time learning something you have a skill. A talent is a natural ability that doesn't require learning, although it can be developed into a skill. They say you can be an expert in anything with 10,000 hours of practice but if you're talented at something you won't need that much. Essentially it's an innate headstart - and one that I don't have in this area, believe me, I've tried. I'm not being defeatist - I taught myself UnrealEd about 15 years ago and made some levels for the original Unreal Tournament and they weren't half bad, but when it comes to learning how an entire game engine works and making an entire video game from scratch, I would need the whole 10,000 hours!

tried it, hope they get shot of the 'always online' launcher (you have to register before you can even get the launcher), it doesn't install the engine until you start your 1st project (in it's own downloader in the launcher), going to put people that were thinking about trying it off from the get go compared to unity (then again, people that want the extra features of the cryengine probably isn't the same market as unity devs)

edit: even if you pick c# language, you still need the c++ dist for mfc140.dll (the cryengine installer is beta tho, so we'll let them off)

edit2: the sandbox editor crashes just on a window resize (losing all work - even tho it warns you it's unstable 1st - er, thanks), think I will wait a bit before trying this, obviously rushed out.

Then why are you misleading people that it is free then? It's either free and goes in the freebie section, or it isn't .... which is it?

I believe that Cryengine is now free (and could go in the freebie section) - it used to require a subscription. This bundle works in the same way as other humble bundles and is for assets for use with the engine. I don't see whats misleading in this post?

Good for you, hope you are enjoying all that. Is learning all those for work or hobby?

Unity was my first choice until U4 became free, I'm quite confident that all these engines will improve with tutorials and documentation now they are following a 'free' model, I just feel this one and U4 are better suited to my needs and more future proof.

My apologies. I didn't intend to cause any unnecessary confusion. Some will understand it. Some won't :smiley:

The Humble Bundle (this post) isn't free. It's a collection of "20,000 files that took three years and cost millions of dollars to make" that can be used with the recently announced "pay what you want" CryEngine model.

I hope that clears things up :smiley:

Worms are free, Humble Bundles aren't usually free... this is being posted as free, but somehow, not quite free... or something like that (???)... perhaps if it had an Amazon Prime price (those still require subscriptions) it would be less misleading. :smiley:

Yeah, that actually makes no sense.... send me some of this heavy medication you're taking so I can join the ranks of understanding a free deal that isn't free and has no price. :smiley::smiley: (Damn my fully functioning brain)

Again, my apologies. It's kind of hard to put a price on a 'Pay What You Want' deal (that's what the PWYW stands for).

I know what talent is reputed to be, however check anyone that has talent they didn't roll up one morning and play tennis like Federer, Nadal, Jokovic, Murray you can all call them talented, but it meant absolutely nothing without punishing hours of practice, it's the same for every single person on this planet.

What I'm illustrating is that you need to put effort in, and you say you needed the 10,000 hours, you can read where 10,000 hours came from here >

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26384712

In the days before the Internet we would believe myths such as 10,000 hours and even more so the we only use 10% of our brain myth. Now we have the Internet more and more of us are on a level playing field. For example let's say you wanted to be a Quant, some one who uses Intraday algorithms to trade on the stock market, you need a serious amount of mathematical skill, one of which will take you anywhere up to 10 years+ to learn depending on natural ability which can't be measured, the amount of time you put in which can and the other things that distract you such as having to work whilst studying for example.

I say if you have the time and many people do then keep learning, when I was a kid at school I thought it will be great when I stop school in a few years time, I'll have a job and won't need to study anything again, er no brain you got that one wrong. If you want to stagnant and are happy in your current position then don't study anything, the world changes so rapidly now that almost everyone has to be on top of their game.

If you want to do it and its legal, then do it!

Can the assets included with this be used in the other engines? Ie are they standard 3d models?

I'm never going to make a game, why is this tempting me?

So, what can I do with this?

anyone else missing their library on humblebundle?
can log in - just it shows no purchases/keys/library etc

I wouldn't even know where to start......so here goes.....picture this, remake of the Spectrum Trashman game using updated vehicles GTA style with busty bins and wheelie bins of various colours......collect bin, empty into trash cart (dustcart) the end!

Thanks, grabbed some assets, never know what might come in useful for my racing sim.

Is anybody else having problems setting up an account to download the Cryengine? I get an internal server error whenever I try to enter my address details.

Thanks, I did look but it was hard to find anything!

Yeah, you can't see the license until after buying it. IANAL, but... I believe that invalidates the license in many places. Either way, the fact that their rep is contradicting the license isn't a good thing. Hopefully it can get cleared up.

Any more news from them about it? I just bought the $13 tier, hoping I'll be able to use them in Unity.

Nothing in the thread I was part of. In all honesty, the license they distribute with it is going to carry much more legal weight than a random employee saying things on Twitter that almost no purchasers of the bundle will see. Additionally, and again IANAL, I believe that forcing you to purchase the bundle before you can even see the license may invalidate parts of it legally anyway.