From Blue Mars Developer Guidebook

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The Tutorial page will provide helpful guides to create, share and manage assets and properties in Blue Mars. We will be adding more as new features are released, so check back often!

Contents 1 Asset Creation 1.1 Animation 1.2 Cloth 1.3 Geometry Setup 1.4 FlowGraph 1.5 Lua Scripting 1.6 Materials & Textures 1.7 Sound 1.8 User Interface 1.9 Vegetation 1.10 Vehicles 1.11 Uploading 1.12 Other Tutorials 2 Property 2.1 Building Property 2.1.1 Cities 2.1.2 Blocks 2.1.3 Shops 2.1.4 Residences 2.2 Managing Property 3 Blue Mars Client Interface 4 Video Tutorials 5 Under Construction

Asset Creation

The following tutorials contain detailed instructions beyond the information covered in Blue Mars Asset Creation Basics and Overviews.

Animation

• Simple animations in the Flow Graph
• CGA Example Clock
• Characters
  • How to convert an animation from Collada (.dae) to .dba
  • Character Rig FAQ's
  • 3D Studio Max Tutorials:
    • Character Creation Tutorial (Crymod Official External Link)
    • DBA Animation Files (Crymod Official External Link)
    • Motion capture data pipeline
    • Locator_Locomotion
    • Importing an .fbx animation to the skeleton
    • Tweaking and editing the animation once it's been imported
    • Exporting Animations *UPDATED!*
  • MotionBuilder Tutorials:
    • Preparing the skeleton and twist bones in Motion Builder
    • How to characterize the skeleton into an IK rig
    • Tips for tweaking animations using the IK rig
    • Converting animation from the IK rig back to FK
    • How to use poses to create a looping animation (ie walk cycle)

Cloth

• Easy T-shirt Creation Guide NEW!
  
• Cloth Creation Guide
  

Geometry Setup

• Creating Objects in 3dsMax and exporting them (Crymod Official External Link)
• Blue Mars COLLADA compatibility guide
• 3DSMAX Asset Setup NEW!
• Importing Collada(.DAE files) into 3dsMax
• 3ds Max Example Files
• Material Setup (Crymod Official External Link)
• Exporting and Importing Animations (Crymod Official External Link)
• Physics Proxy Setup
• Mass & Density Setup for assets used as Entities (Crymod Official External Link)
• Instancing Objects (Crymod Official External Link)
• Occlusion proxy (Crymod Official External Link)
• How to make a .dae with collision proxy
• How to make a .cgf with collision proxy from two COLLADA .dae files *UPDATED!*
• City Dev - Creating a chair with a click-able cushion

FlowGraph

• FlowGraph - available in the City Editor and Block Editor
  • Simple animations in the Flow Graph
  • Sharing a FlowGraph
  • Additional FlowGraph video tutorials
  • Adding FlowGraph ports to a Lua entity script

Lua Scripting

• Guide to scripting entities and games in Blue Mars
  • Note that Lua scripts are installed by the city developer

• See the Script Center for example scripts and code snippets, including
  • Basic Script Example - Basic structure of a script, state transitions, and triggering
  • Basic Flash HUD - Loading and displaying a UI element and listening for fscommands
  • Basic Action Map usage - Loading and enabling an action map and using the OnAction callback
  • Set Level CVars Example - Automatically set Console variables upon loading a level
  • more examples can be found in the Script Center

Materials & Textures

• Materials
  • Material Editor Overview NEW!
  • How to setup a multi/sub-object material
  • How to create material from 3ds Max with CryENGINE2 Exporter
• Textures
  • How to export a texture from Photoshop with the CryTIF plugin (Crymod Official External Link)
  • The basics: How to Paint a Terrain (Crymod Official External Link)
  • Balancing Terrain Textures
  • Blending Terrain Materials
  • Terrain Color Maps
  • Creating Cubemaps

Sound

• Sound files & FMOD Designer
• Sample FMOD Designer projects (.fdp) are provided:
  • In the sample data (under Game/Levels/AR/Common/Sounds/Golf and /Taki), available in the Download section of the Developer MyPage
  • In the Dev kit, under Levels/SAMPLE/Common/Sounds/Sample

User Interface

• Flash in-game HUD
  • Creating a Flash File
• Flash Overlay
  • Flash Overlay Quick Start
  • Flash Overlay with Flex, a more elaborate example using Flex

Vegetation

• Tree Setup
• Bush Setup
• Grass Setup (to be added)
• Vegetation Shader
• Touch Bending
• Detail bending for Vegetation
• (reference source files to be added)

Vehicles

• How to create an animated vehicle

Uploading

• Uploading A Blue Mars Asset
• How to test your city prior to uploading

Other Tutorials

• How to set up a Showcase NEW!
• Other Tutorials collected from the developer community

Property

Here are some tutorials on how to build and manage property in Blue Mars.

Building Property

Cities

• City Developer quick start guide
• City Editor Tutorial
• Copying City Assets to Company Code
• Uploading Your City

Blocks

• Block Editor Manual

Shops

• Shop Editor Manual
• Setting Up a Shop as a Content Creator
• Setting Up a Shop as a Block Developer
• Setting Up a Shop as a City Developer

Residences

• Furniture Overview
• Creating an Interior in Max
• Setting up an Apartment in the Block Editor UPDATED!
• Setting up a single family home in the Block Editor

Managing Property

• How to Lease Shops and Blocks
• How to Lease Residences
• How to Lease Apartments NEW!
• Leasing Out Blocks and Shops
• Leasing Out Residences *UPDATED!*
• Updating a Block as a Block Developer
• Updating a Block as a City Developer
• Updating a Shop as a Block Owner
• Updating a Shop as a Shop Owner
• Evicting a Tenant
• Terminating a Lease *UPDATED!*
• Making Rent Payments (for Shops and Blocks)
• How to Manage Residences and Apartments NEW!

Blue Mars Client Interface

• General Guide to Blue Mars Client Interface

Video Tutorials

• Video Tutorials
  

Under Construction

• Boids (to be updated)