How to customize the CRYENGINE User Interface | Getting Started Video Lecture | Cry Engine Tutorial:Getting Started - Game Development

for this lesson we're going to talk
about how to customize your UI inside of
CryEngine by default this is the UI that
most people see we actually should step
back and these icons are the first thing
that you would see in the create objects
tab we have properties trained editor
the typical perspective and layer or
level Explorer we have the console and
then up here we have the toolbar in the
menu so maybe you just happen to remove
everything so let's go ahead and close
out the properties console the level
Explorer and now the one thing that
seems to be catching up a lot of people
is I can close the perspective viewport
so now we have the most clean
unadulterated version of CryEngine
interface you can have in order to get
things back you're going to need to go
to the tools pane which inside of here
we can start with the viewport
perspective this brings back the
viewport that we had before and if we
move it around we can see that we kind
of get a hotbox in the middle and we
know that we want this to be right in
the center so if we go and hover right
over this tab we can just bring it right
back the same could be said for the
actual level editor and let's do the
properties next so if I drag these over
to the right I'm able to add it to this
pane without disturbing the menu I'm
going to do the same for the create
objects tab and like before add it this
way
and then finally to get it all back
we're going to go to the level Explorer
and this time we're actually going to
add it on the bottom so now we've pretty
much got back our default setting we
don't have the terrain editor but
overall this is the same layout that
typically you would start with so let's
go ahead and go up to layout and we can
see that we can save this layout so just
to go a little crazy and just understand
me
be what we're doing let's move this out
and we will save this layout inside of
Crytek and we'll call this one layout
tutorial and we'll export that now
appear let's go ahead and reset the
layout which has come back to this
default thing let's go ahead and close
everything once again so then we're left
with our default we're gonna go ahead
and load our layout tutorial JSON file
and we'll import that and you'll notice
that it's come back and it allows you to
do all the customization like before the
next thing that we can do is actually
come up to the toolbar so in this blank
area if we right-click we can see that
we have a lot of buttons that aren't
exactly exposed by default we click the
audio now we have a bunch of audio
buttons and we also have constraints and
you'll see that we have this little dot
next to each one of them and you can
actually move it around and it's very
very portable to wherever you want so
this is a basic understanding of how you
can manipulate just the toolbars and
then also the entire viewport and maybe
how you can reset it and load or just
even save your viewport that you like
with the layout you want and in future
ones we'll go over the console variables
and look at how we can customize
commands or even macros to be able to
give us a more customized and
streamlined workflow