Short tutorials

[Samapico]

Would be cool if we could get some short tutorials for different tasks. These could be included in a help file and on DCME's wiki page.

 

Short tutorials with clear steps, and some images. If any of you people feel like making one, go ahead and post it here

When we have enough, we'll probably standardize the format a bit, and put them somewhere.

 

Some things that could be tutorial'ed or have a help page:

• Creating a tileset
  • Moving tiles around in the tileset editor
    
  • Importing tiles or images in your tileset using the 'source' image
    
  • Editing a tile
    
  • Generating a walltile set from a tile
    

  [*]Switch/Replace tiles

  [*]Using walltiles

  • Generating a walltile set from a tile (same as above)
    
  • Creating walltile sets
    
  • Drawing with walltiles
    

  [*]Using the selection tool

  [*]Using the magic wand tool

  [*]Grid

  • Customize the grid
    
  • Showing/Hiding the grid (duh )
    

  [*]Using the ... tool (could be done for all tools)

  [*]Navigating in the map

  • Using the hand tool
    
  • Using the middle mouse button (which switches to hand temporarly)
    
  • Arrows
    
  • Mini-map (Full-map view; Radar view; 'GoTo' dialog when right-clicking the map)
    

  [*]Right panel

  • What's in it? (tileset, coordinates, mini-map)
    
  • Hide/Show it (and use of popup-tileset and popup-radar
    

  [*]LVZ stuff

  • Creating a new LVZ archive
    
  • Adding images
    
  • Placing images on the map
    
  • Selecting images on the map
    
  • Moving images on the map
    
  • Changing images properties
    
  • Removing images from the map
    
  • Removing images from a LVZ archive
    
  • Animations
    

  [*]...

*Note: Items in italic are expected to be modified soon, so it is not useful to create a complete guide for these yet.

 

 

This would also be a good exercise to see what could be improved in the interface. There are already a couple of things I want to have eventually:

• "Edit tileset" and "Edit tile" functions accessible near the tileset
  
• Adding a walltile set with the generator would add it on the defined walltile sets
  
• Walltiles will have their own tab on the tileset (like LVZ)
  

So don't bother making help files related to these things yet. Well, you can always make one with some holes, or some steps that you think that's how it should be done (realistically... for example, no diagonal walltiles for now or things like that). Simple interface changes that make things easier will be welcome.

 

 

I don't know much about help files... but I'm guessing a html format would be the way to go.

[ThunderJam]

Would be really great if someone could screen record some of the more tricky or less known things to do, make a youtube account jsut for dcme, and load them, then post all the vids on here. If you limit it to say ths least known features, or the features that ppl really dont know how to use, it wouldn't be too many vids, or too hard to do.

 

If your looking for a really simple, free screen capture/record software, i know "Camstudio" is opensource/free

[JDS]

il make a tutorial and youtube it, should be fun

[Samapico]

Make sure to keep the higher-quality version, I might post it somewhere