Short video tutorials

[AggrorJorn]

I am thinking of making a bunch of short video tutorials that cover a small subject or an interesting feature when using Leadwerks. For instance this topic: http://leadwerks.com/werkspace/index.php?/topic/3000-equal-game-speed/page__pid__27733#entry27733

 

I am going to make small video tutorials about this because its just really useful for everyone. Movies like that are easier to record and to edit and are approximately 5 minutes long.

 

Any suggestions?

[cassius]

Yes .Great idea. I always find video tuts hard to follow, but short ones could be watched several times.

[gordonramp]

This is a useful idea... How about 'setting up a simple text input box'. A compass, a health box, a third person camera, how to start on a day/night solution, how to start on a moving clouds solution, how to make an object fade out/fade in, how to make an object glow.

[Pancakes]

Fantastic Idea. I think you should definately be hired as LE3's official docs guy.

[cassius]

A tutorial on guns and how to fire bullets in a game would be wecome.

[Canardia]

A tutorial on guns and how to fire bullets in a game would be wecome.

That is in Power Tutorial, but it seems Josh has cleaned up the Wiki main page a bit, so I need to make a new website for custom tutorials

[AggrorJorn]

day/night system and guns etc are hot topics but they are not really 'short tutorials' as they cover a lot of coding and explanation. I am more looking for small things atm.

[Canardia]

Just one line of code.

[Rick]

Honestly all those systems can be done many different ways. Tutorials can be made on one way to do them but that doesn't mean it's the only way. Maybe a tutorial could be made to just describe how one could go about it, but not a detailed tutorial.

[Canardia]

Sure, that would be a different kind of tutorial then. More like a general learning of possible ways to work.

I think there should be both kinds of tutorials, hardcoded copypaste tutorials which compile and run, and then the theoretical tutorials which explain the philosophy of life and 3D game development

[cassius]

Tutorials don't have to be a complete runnable program, they could just be a function we can slot into our existing game code.

[AggrorJorn]

Okay so here is a short list of what I am planning:

 

1. Equal game speed
   
2. Font Studio
   
3. Terrain editor
   
4. Objects in your scene
   

 

After these I will have a look at how to do something like guns in general. I have to figure that out anyway so it will come in handy.

[AggrorJorn]

5 minutes can be so easily exceeded, but here's the first one:

 

Font studio.

http://leadwerks.com/werkspace/index.php?/topic/3008-leadwerks-tutorial-font-studio/page__pid__27783#entry27783

[AggrorJorn]

And the next:

 

Equal game speeds.

http://leadwerks.com/werkspace/index.php?/topic/3016-leadwerks-tutorial-equal-game-speeds/