Lessons on GS_Play Gameplay Framework

Configure Project

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Install Gems

Configure Project Gems

Add Project Dependencies

cmakelists: package build targets

<ProjectGemName>.Private.Object STATIC
BUILD_DEPENDENCIES
 PUBLIC
 Gem:GS_Play_Core.API
 Gem:GS_<your desired module>.API

Setup Project Environment

Environment Setup

Need Help?

Check out the Project Setup Video Tutorial (Links to video_tutorial tag for setup video)

Next: Prepare Managers →

Setting Up the Physics Environment

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Setting up your Physics Environment

These are the necessary details to create your project and have it run reliably with all GS_Play featuresets.

Physics
Default Ground Collision

Physics

Image showing the standard PhysX Configuration necessary to support all GS_Play features.

Collision Layers

Image showing the standard PhysX Collision Layers necessary to support all GS_Play features.

NoCollision Layer

Environment Layer

Doodad Layer

Trigger Layer

Unit Layer

Pulse Layer

Interact Layer

Regions Layer

Collision Groups

Understanding GS_Play

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GS_Play Methodology and Purpose

GS_Play is an intermediate to advanced game development and production framework. Because of this it can rapidly create prototypes and prove out gameplay, but is deeply extensible and customizable — allowing the project to grow, and the game to become exactly what you want to make. This does mean the tools are not as “out of the box” as more beginner-friendly options. You should already know how to make videogames, or be actively studying how to develop features, to get the most out of this framework. Check out the library of lessons and guides to get embedded in any GS_Play feature you’d like to explore.

Prepare Managers

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Start Creating Manager Prefabs

Blank Entity
Create Prefab
Add to Game Manager

Need Help?

Check out the Project Setup Video Tutorial (Links to video_tutorial tag for setup video)

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Simple Project Setup

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A guide to get everything propped up rapidly

Video Tutorial

Embed youtube guide.

Link to video_tutorials.

Prepare Startup

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Start Creating Manager Prefabs

Blank Entity
Create Prefab
Add to Game Manager

Need Help?

Check out the Project Setup Video Tutorial (Links to video_tutorial tag for setup video)

← Prev: Prepare Managers Next: Prepare Camera →

Prepare Camera

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Start Creating Manager Prefabs

Blank Entity
Create Prefab
Add to Game Manager

Need Help?

Check out the Project Setup Video Tutorial (Links to video_tutorial tag for setup video)

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Get Ready to Start!

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Resources to start using specific features.

Good things to know before starting.

You’re ready to start!

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Understanding Agentic Guidelines

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This page is written for humans. You are reading an explanation of how the parent document works and how to maintain it. If you are an AI agent that has landed here, the document you should be reading is Agentic Guidelines.

What the Agentic Guidelines Page Is

The parent page — Agentic Guidelines — is not a documentation page in the normal sense. It contains no prose meant for a human to read comfortably. It is a structured seed document, intended to be pasted or loaded into an AI agent session before any GS_Play framework work begins.