On a serious note, we keep answering the same asked questions over-and-over again.
We should be making tutorials as those questions are asked so that we don't need to repeat any, then we can just provide a link or direct them to the tutorials section.
We need more tuts!
We need more tuts!
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Re: We need more tuts!
Maybe we also need a list of different areas in modding that most of all needs tutorials?
And when making a tut, it would be greate to end it with a checklist, so it is easier to memorize the different steps.
And when making a tut, it would be greate to end it with a checklist, so it is easier to memorize the different steps.
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Re: We need more tuts!
well, we certainly need at least a sticky tut for netcode and networkinfos.
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Oh, so there are people that knows that stuff?;)hipnox wrote:well, we certainly need at least a sticky tut for netcode and networkinfos.
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Re: We need more tuts!
This is clearly a topic of truth but the best solution is for people to make them 
Or request them...
Stating we need them is a given... There is always a lot of talk about 'making tutorials' but that’s usually all it ever is sadly.
I have made a few... and I don't announce it until they are done.
Pick a subject that you know very clearly (however uber basic) and do a concise, noob friendly tutorial. Then we can build a really helpful collection in the tutorials section here.
I would urge people to do this because 1942 will be around until the end of time. I’m convinced of that.
Let’s make it easy for everyone to understand everything up to this point and then more people will be capable of throwing up the new techniques which I feel are more prevalent now than ever before!
Or request them...
Stating we need them is a given... There is always a lot of talk about 'making tutorials' but that’s usually all it ever is sadly.
I have made a few... and I don't announce it until they are done.
Pick a subject that you know very clearly (however uber basic) and do a concise, noob friendly tutorial. Then we can build a really helpful collection in the tutorials section here.
I would urge people to do this because 1942 will be around until the end of time. I’m convinced of that.
Let’s make it easy for everyone to understand everything up to this point and then more people will be capable of throwing up the new techniques which I feel are more prevalent now than ever before!
Re: We need more tuts!
Can only nod and sign fooks statement.
Wanting things is easy, doing things apparently not so much. There are various ways to help alleviate it.
1) Make a tutorial
2) Request a SPECIFIC tutorial and hope & pray someone will make it
Regarding 2) it should be said that "specific" really means it and only should be done if you really have no idea about that particular topic. I'm actually fairly certain that there are lots of beginner things that could be explained by no-longer-beginners that got helped before by our "veterans". I can only speak for me, but I have to admit that I can't always be bothered to answer the very same basic question over and over again, simply because it's a question that's getting boring for me. I know I could help that fella out with answering, but I'm no saint-prodigy-superhero and provide help here in my free time. Considering that I'm mostly out of the "beginner" shoes now I have to admit that I'm just more intrigued by more "advanced" problems with the engine and special hacks and new developments than by explaining again how to properly set up Ed42 or similar. I'm more interested in the weird niche stuff we like to have academical debates about sometimes (rally points, dds handling, 3dsmax Tools, things like that) that won't be relevant for most of the basic moddings anyway, and only be required by a small handful of modders that plan on very specific and unique moddings.
I really hope this doesn't sound as arrogant and selfish as I fear it will, but it's simply the truth. Things you have done dozens of times already tend to start getting boring. Exploring and testing new things (maybe even things that never have been done before, like my healthdependent meshes) is giving more of a "kick" every now and then.
If you are new here and got helped with an issue that you understood afterwards, just take up the flag and try to provide help to the next newcomer that shows up. If you can get yourself to write a comprehensive and condensed tutorial explaining something, you have provided A LOT by that. It's like writing an entry in an encyclopedia. It's a one-time-work and lots of people can use your work to solve their problems single-handedly and others use it to point newcomers towards it as an answer. All that without you having to put any extra work in. That's what makes tutorials so awesome.
EDIT: After rereading this, I realize this really might make me sound like a douchebag, but I hope my actual point does become apparent somewhere...
Wanting things is easy, doing things apparently not so much. There are various ways to help alleviate it.
1) Make a tutorial
2) Request a SPECIFIC tutorial and hope & pray someone will make it
Regarding 2) it should be said that "specific" really means it and only should be done if you really have no idea about that particular topic. I'm actually fairly certain that there are lots of beginner things that could be explained by no-longer-beginners that got helped before by our "veterans". I can only speak for me, but I have to admit that I can't always be bothered to answer the very same basic question over and over again, simply because it's a question that's getting boring for me. I know I could help that fella out with answering, but I'm no saint-prodigy-superhero and provide help here in my free time. Considering that I'm mostly out of the "beginner" shoes now I have to admit that I'm just more intrigued by more "advanced" problems with the engine and special hacks and new developments than by explaining again how to properly set up Ed42 or similar. I'm more interested in the weird niche stuff we like to have academical debates about sometimes (rally points, dds handling, 3dsmax Tools, things like that) that won't be relevant for most of the basic moddings anyway, and only be required by a small handful of modders that plan on very specific and unique moddings.
I really hope this doesn't sound as arrogant and selfish as I fear it will, but it's simply the truth. Things you have done dozens of times already tend to start getting boring. Exploring and testing new things (maybe even things that never have been done before, like my healthdependent meshes) is giving more of a "kick" every now and then.
If you are new here and got helped with an issue that you understood afterwards, just take up the flag and try to provide help to the next newcomer that shows up. If you can get yourself to write a comprehensive and condensed tutorial explaining something, you have provided A LOT by that. It's like writing an entry in an encyclopedia. It's a one-time-work and lots of people can use your work to solve their problems single-handedly and others use it to point newcomers towards it as an answer. All that without you having to put any extra work in. That's what makes tutorials so awesome.
EDIT: After rereading this, I realize this really might make me sound like a douchebag, but I hope my actual point does become apparent somewhere...