Video tutorials

[Samapico]

We'd need some tutorial videos to put on youtube, with narration and stuff

 

Like, 2 or 3 videos, the first 'beginner' tutorial would cover that, and the basic usage of most tools

 

Then, another would show walltiles, switch/replace, and other stuff like that

 

And another one for LVZ

 

That would be great

[Hate The Fake]

We'd need some tutorial videos to put on youtube, with narration and stuff

 

Like, 2 or 3 videos, the first 'beginner' tutorial would cover that, and the basic usage of most tools

 

Then, another would show walltiles, switch/replace, and other stuff like that

 

And another one for LVZ

 

That would be great

 

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[Sketter]

Doable, just give me what exactly you want in it.

[Samapico]

Well I don't know... I'm not much of a good teacher.

 

Put yourself in the head of a total newbie, and go from there

 

Perhaps start with an overview of the interface

 

Main toolbar, Tool toolbar, tileset, radar, drawing area

 

Explain how to navigate in the drawing area with the mouse (middle mouse button to drag map; mousewheel for zoom)

 

Explain how the tileset works, that each tile has a different property (tooltip text shows that) (maybe no need to explain in details, but make sure to make obvious that you can select block of tiles)

 

Maybe show that you can hide the right panel and still access the tileset and radar

 

Then maybe a simple example, importing a tileset and drawing a simple base without any fancy walltiles or switch/replace stuff

 

I think this could make a good first introduction video, what ya'll think? Too much or not enough stuff?

 

Make sure to use the latest beta for this though... since some toolbar buttons have been moved around and stuff. For the same reason, anything concerning LVZ's will have to wait until I'm done with the changes I'm doing now.

 

And just a suggestion, maybe it will be better for a video if you set the grid lines darker.. I'll probably change the default grid color setting anyway. Right now it's (50,50,50), I was thinking making it (30,30,30) or something like that; it's smoother for the eyes imo

 

 

Thanks for offering yourself

 

 

 

On a side note, it would be nice to make a complete do!@#$%^&*entation, perhaps html style to go with it. But with all the ongoing modifications, it would be mostly a waste of time to do it right now.

Hmm.. It would be nice to have that do!@#$%^&*entation on dcme.sscentral.com ... mmmhmmm. Like a nice interactive help

That would be a nice project

[Acer]

I'll make some tomorrow when I get home, But I will take a while for me to upload them to youtube. My upload speed sucks.

 

Voice or no Voice?

Edited November 3, 2008 by Acer101

[Samapico]

I think with voice could make things easier to understand

 

And emm, maybe upload them somewhere else with the full quality, I'll put them on youtube and/or make them downloadable on the site with full quality. By full quality I mean whatever quality the recording is. Shouldn't take any longer than upload to youtube, except that youtube will re-compress it.

 

If you don't want to talk, on youtube we can put these captions thingies, maybe that could do the trick as well.

 

Either way, just upload somewhere like sendspace.com, so I can put the video elsewhere as well. I'll give proper credits, of course

 

 

Also, that way, all the videos would be uploaded by the same user on youtube, which makes it easier to find them all if there are a couple. I might create a DCME user on there or something

[Samapico]

Might be good to introduce the selection tool soon too... Ctrl-drag and Shift-drag to remove/add stuff in the selection, and perhaps a quick glance at the transparent selection / draw under modes

[Acer]

I think with voice could make things easier to understand

 

And emm, maybe upload them somewhere else with the full quality, I'll put them on youtube and/or make them downloadable on the site with full quality. By full quality I mean whatever quality the recording is. Shouldn't take any longer than upload to youtube, except that youtube will re-compress it.

 

If you don't want to talk, on youtube we can put these captions thingies, maybe that could do the trick as well.

 

Either way, just upload somewhere like sendspace.com, so I can put the video elsewhere as well. I'll give proper credits, of course

 

 

Also, that way, all the videos would be uploaded by the same user on youtube, which makes it easier to find them all if there are a couple. I might create a DCME user on there or something

Ya I know I'm some what pro at this !@#$%^&* if I'm in a good mode. But I mean my upload speed really sucks, lol. It's like 60. My download speed is like 700 Lol. But ya I'll post it and I'll upload it. Do you mind if I upload it to mediafire.com or megaupload.com ?

[Samapico]

whatever, as long I can download it

[Samapico]

*bump*

[Corey]

I guess i could do a walltile/tile editing video with voice, but im really busy, so it might take a while :/