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Working with Amazon Lumberyard systems APIs

Working with Amazon Lumberyard systems APIs

Amazon Lumberyard provides a number of APIs to access and invoke key parts of the Lumberyard engine from your game, including a new in-game console and a new event management system.

These C++ APIs are called from your code, and provide important infrastructure functionality for your game, including messaging and communications, and an in-game console with variable and functor support.

You can find these APIs defined in the following headers:

  • Event.h (in %INSTALL_ROOT%\dev\Code\Framework\AzCore\AzCore\EBus\) for AZ::Event
  • IConsole.h (in %INSTALL_ROOT%\dev\Code\Framework\AzCore\AzCore\IConsole\) for AZ::Console
  • Interface.h (in %INSTALL_ROOT%\dev\Code\Framework\AzCore\AzCore\Interface\) for AZ::Interface

Some of these systems APIs replace functionality from older versions, or provide alternative methods, such as AZ::Console for the CryConsole and AZ::Event for EBus.

For C++ API reference documentation, see the Amazon Lumberyard C++ API Reference .

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