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Welcome to the community Wiki for the C4 Engine. This is a collection of articles about C4 written by both its creators and its users. The type of information on this Wiki ranges from introductory overviews to detailed coding examples. To edit pages, you must be registered in the forums and be a member of one of the licensed users groups for the Standard Edition or higher. Use the same login name and password to access the Wiki. (If you are a licensed C4 user, you can request membership in a licensed users group on the forums by going to the User Control Panel, selecting the Usergroups tab, and joining the group corresponding to your type of license. Your request will then be approved within 24 hours.) Developer Links My Account Support Forums Release Notes Official Roadmap API Documentation

Official Documentation

These pages were either written by Terathon Software engineers or have been carefully reviewed for accuracy. General Reference General Information for Licensed Users Quick Tour Getting Started The Beginner's Guide to the C4 Engine Community Promotion Glossary FAQ Collada Plugins Content Creation Programs Third Party Physics Engines Recommended Third-Party Tools Useful Webpages Useful Books File Locations Engine Concepts The C4 Rendering Pipeline Geometry Internals Lights and Shadows Models and Instanced Worlds Shadow Spaces Fog Spaces Motion Blur Creating a GUI Skin Shaders Programming Topics Programming Introduction to the C4 Engine Using the Command Console List of System Variables Defining a Custom Controller Defining a Custom Property Working with Sound Detecting Memory Leaks String Tables SimpleBall Sample Code SimpleChar Sample Code Controllers Rigid Body Controller Rope Controller Cloth Controller Movement Controller Oscillation Controller Rotation Controller Spin Controller Tutorials Portal Tutorial Oscillation Tutorial Teleport Tutorial Terrain Tutorial World Editor World Editor Overview World Editor Pages Using Impostors Using Skyboxes Using Connectors Shaders Using the Shader Editor List of basic processes List of mathematical processes List of complex processes List of interpolant processes Scripting Graphical Scripting Language List of Script Methods Expression Evaluation in Scripts Defining a Custom Method Terrain Editing Terrain Creating a Terrain Palette Panels Panel Editor List of widgets Models Creating a Model Model Viewer Materials Creating a New Material Importing a Texture Alpha transparency Advanced Material Example Movies Movie Importer Movie Player Recording Movies Fonts Generating a Font Pack Files Pack Files and Virtual Directories

User-contributed References and Tutorials

These pages are maintained by the C4 community. While every attempt is made to keep these pages up to date and accurate, it should be noted that these pages may contain errors or outdated information. Coding Creating a new project from SimpleBall Introduction - 'Hello World' Handling User Input Changing C4Engine.exe Icon and Name Code Snippets Editor Plugin Tutorial Creating A Skinned Mesh Manually Creating A Logfile-Class A Sample Inventory Window Displaying a Splash Screen Games Pong Series Beginner Game Tutorials Game Editing Tips and Tricks Video Tutorials Geometry Geometry Tips and Tricks Creating Levels of Detail Importing a mesh with multiple textures from Blender Importing COLLADA Models Drawing Custom Geometry Scripting Incrementing Number Trigger Casino Machine using a panel and Graphical Scripting Materials Advanced Material Example Creating A Texture In Memory Shaders Building a Fresnel shader Caustics Shader Cel Shader Eye Shader Custom Shaders and tutorials Art Making a Texture Using MapZone Making a Texture Using MapZone-Fun with Specular Making a Texture from Scratch Making a Skybox Using Terragen Making a Skybox Using Bryce Photoshop Template for Crosshair HUD Photoshop Template for Cube Maps Previewing the GUI skins in Photoshop Generic Particle System Advanced Programming Packing and Unpacking Object References Networking Networking Concepts Basic Network Tutorial SimpleChar Multiplayer Physics Using the PhysX Integration Creating a basic PhysX level in the World Editor Integrating the Newton Dynamics Engine Others Useful Forum Posts Tutorial creation tips Tips & Tricks Playing streaming ogg music Symbolink Links On A Network Indie Developer Resources List Changing C4Engine.exe Icon and Name User created tools