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I think we should get some more tutorials to make our games more scary! Mostly scripting tutorials. Video tutorials personally help me the most.

(10-09-2010, 01:58 AM)Kyle Wrote: [ -> ]I think we should get some more tutorials to make our games more scary! Mostly scripting tutorials. Video tutorials oersonally help me the most.

I find scripting to be easy nowadays - However, i can recall about two weeks ago when i knew nothing about XML at all, and would probably still be completely hopeless if i didnt already know a fair bit of C++ and HTML.

So based on that, rather than making a tutorial, someone should make a series of videos detailing how to use scripts - As in, not how to script, how to make scripts work. Callbacks, Door Locking, Light Control, Sounds Playing, and how to set these things up properly. Itd certainly help alot of people - Think of it as being like the tutorial for How to make a key open a locked door, only for every script. It would take some time, but it could work...

On the flipside, just knowing the code on its own merits is much better in the long run

But yes, tutorials for the beginners i say
(Did i just type that much? :p)

Right now the tutorials on the wiki, no offence to the original authors, could use some improvements as far as orginization and readability. There's a lot of really important details that are tucked away into paragraphs that most people won't catch.

I just started playing around with the editor so I don't know yet if anything is difficult enough to warrant more tuts. For now I just want to note that the original game's scripts are very well-documented, so we've got a huge script tutorial library and live examples right there.

The idea of the wiki was to just add some basic info and groundwork, then the best thing to do is that if you notice and think of improvements you actually do those improvements instead of just saying that someone else should do it.

I'll think I'll do a tut on creating a proper extra_english.lang file, as that seems to be largely unmentioned in the Wiki.

If you want more tuts, guys, DO more tuts!

Id make a tutorial, but id end up rambling about Syntaxes and bugfixing for pages/hours depending on if it was text or video - If anything, there should be a usermade tutorial page on the wiki.

(10-09-2010, 02:59 PM)Chilton Wrote: [ -> ]Id make a tutorial, but id end up rambling about Syntaxes and bugfixing for pages/hours depending on if it was text or video - If anything, there should be a usermade tutorial page on the wiki.

A user-made tutorials section.. good idea. Would help cleaning up the tutorial page!
I can publish your tutorials on the wiki if you want, but I need to figure out how to upload images there first

(10-09-2010, 03:41 PM)Frontcannon Wrote: [ -> ]

(10-09-2010, 02:59 PM)Chilton Wrote: [ -> ]Id make a tutorial, but id end up rambling about Syntaxes and bugfixing for pages/hours depending on if it was text or video - If anything, there should be a usermade tutorial page on the wiki.

A user-made tutorials section.. good idea. Would help cleaning up the tutorial page!
I can publish your tutorials on the wiki if you want, but I need to figure out how to upload images there first

We'll see if this works out - If a tutorial page actually goes up and starts getting used, ill gladly pitch in and post a few tutorials - The first id do is bugfixing; Since many people seem to have trouble with it

Well this is the tutorial page as of now, I'd suggest putting up a 'User-made Tutorials' section where MulleDK19's video tutorials etc go in and make that our tutorial page!