Blue Mars Editors vs. CryEngine2 Sandbox

From Blue Mars Developer Guidebook

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Overview:

With this document we want to give developers coming from the Crysis modding scene a short overview of the differences between the Sandbox editor and our Blue Mars editors.

	Blue Mars City Editor	Blue Mars Block Editor	Crysis Sandbox
64Bit Support	TBD	TBD	FULL
AI Debugger	-	-	FULL
Animation Graph	-	-	FULL
Asset Editor	-	-	FULL
Character Editor	-	-	FULL
DataBase View	FULL	Limited	FULL
Dialog Editor	-	-	FULL
Facial Editor	-	-	FULL
Flow Graph	Very Limited	Very Limited	FULL
Front	FULL	FULL	FULL
Left	FULL	FULL	FULL
Map	FULL	FULL	FULL
Material Editor	FULL	Limited	FULL
ModelPreview	-	-	FULL
Perspective	FULL	FULL	FULL
RAM Compiler	-	-	FULL
Select Objects	FULL	FULL	FULL
Smart Objects Editor	-	-	FULL
Terrain Editor	FULL	Limited	FULL
Terrain Texture Layers	FULL	-	FULL
Time Of Day	FULL	-	FULL
Top	FULL	FULL	FULL
Track View	FULL	FULL	FULL
Z View	FULL	FULL	FULL

Scripting in Blue Mars

Currently we only support scripting using the Lua API. As stated in the table above, we also have limited support for Flow Graph.

Legal reminder:

Remember, all the content you upload to Blue Mars must be your own original creations, free content, or the sample content included in the Blue Mars SDK. Copyrighted content from Crytek or others is not allowed in Blue Mars. We respect their copyright and their IP.

Final thoughts

Note that this page may change considerably in the future as we implement more functionality to our tools.