I have updated my book to the latest Lumberyard as of August2019: Lumberyard 1.20. There was no new content in this update aside from updating everything up to 1.20. Enjoy! Print and EBook Editions P.S. GitHub for the book is here: https://github.com/Aristo7/LYBook_1.20 P.P.S. If you buy a print copy, you get ebook for free but […]

Lumberyard 1.18 brings a new gem: PhysX functionality in preview mode. I’m here to share a code snippet to get something accomplished in it that isn’t available out of the box: dynamically resizing collision shapes. The new component for physical shapes is PhysX Collider. In the editor you can modify its size, for example sphere’s […]

I have updated my book to the latest Lumberyard as of March 2019: Lumberyard 1.18. The book has been expanded with 2 new chapters and all chapters were re-worked to use the new PhysX gem (instead of legacy physics). Enjoy! Print and EBook Editions P.S. GitHub for the book is here: https://github.com/Aristo7/LYBook_1.18 P.P.S. If you […]

If you attempted to install Wwise in Lumberyard 1.18 you likely ran into an issue installing Wwise 2018. Here is a snippet from my upcoming update to Game Programming with Amazon Lumberyard that shows how to correct the issue.

If you tried to use PhysX gem in Lumberyard 1.18 you likely ran into a compilation issue. This post is here to solve your problem. You are simply missing NVidia PhysX SDK with your installation that you can install from Setup Assistant. Here is a page out of my book on the topic.  

With the release of Lumberyard 1.18 ( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/latest/releasenotes/lumberyard-v1.18.html ) I have began updating my book “Game Programming with Amazon Lumberyard” to 1.18. It will take a little bit since I’m going to show how to use PhysX instead of CryPhysics that my book releases have used so far. Stay tuned for updates. If you have […]

Second Edition has been updated to Lumberyard 1.17. Print Edition EBook   Enjoy! P.S. The accompanying source code is available at https://github.com/Aristo7/LYBook_1.17  

Second Edition is out. (Updated to Lumberyard 1.16.) Print Edition EBook   Enjoy! P.S. The accompanying source code is available at https://github.com/Aristo7/LYBook_1.16  

After almost a year of writing, I am publishing my new general book on Lumberyard (1.16). It’s out now on Amazon. See the links below. Print Edition EBook   Enjoy! P.S. The accompanying source code is available at https://github.com/Aristo7/LYBook_1.16  

I had a thought today: “I sure wish I could see how EBuses and Components interact with each other in my code in a visual manner.” So I made a tool that does just that. https://github.com/Aristo7/EBusScanner   EBusScanner Scans your source code for Lumberyard EBuses and their use. Build a digraph out of that information. Usage […]