Topic: Some tutorials

Hi.
I've lately been creating several video tutorials on the usage of Maratis. The aim of my tutorials will be to create a basic third person game based on a LUA script. If you are having ideas on topics I should talk about or just general critique just post them here.
Basics:
  - Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MFDSpOuoKA
  - Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHW3q5GxFIc
  - Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1SmQk0Ifms
Creating the basic game:
  - Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x78NMoKbVZA (mostly just the workflow of creating an object)
  - Part 5.1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE_cMzgJbkw
  - Part 5.2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufgqQFO10Ag
  - Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idgk7Z8Lz_o
  - Part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpDIKJkgQF0
Customizing the game:
  - Part 8.1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTn8Fb-4RKw (I'll cover 'basic interaction with the world' in some later tutorial)
  - Part 8.2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGHWuOQGYGQ
  - Part 9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_U6mDqrYWQ (coins)
  - Part 10:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyQEYVhgLzU (huds)

Short tutorials:
  - 3D sounds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-lEGbtDUng
  - How to compile your game (on Windows for Windows): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEkWl9nFFqE

Preview on the game:
  - http://www.mediafire.com/?r5yw13aghu5jtm3

Playlist for these tutorials:
  - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL … ZDtBOJTK7i

http://i.imgur.com/b63lil.jpg
-- to be continued.

Last edited by special_ops (2013-08-09 21:57:39)

  • anael
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Re: Some tutorials

Hi, welcome,
that's great, it's very clear !
I'm waiting to see the following part.

Thank you

  • VeganDev
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Maybe where you live such things don't matter, but I won't listen any further to your videos, unless you remove fuc* from the first one. I didn't listen any further so I have no idea about 2 or 3, but I hope its just an oversight, but otherwise I find it very offensive and immature you would allow such wording to enter in the video.

I'm glad you're doing this as it will certainly help people with such needs.

cheers
gm


special_ops wrote:

Hi.
I've lately been creating several video tutorials on the usage of Maratis. The aim of my tutorials will be to create a basic third person game based on a LUA script. If you are having ideas on topics I should talk about or just general critique just post them here.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKsD-JxuMWc
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHW3q5GxFIc
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1SmQk0Ifms

-- to be continued.

Re: Some tutorials

I've just uploaded the fourth video and will soon add the fifth one, too, as soon as it finishes uploading. It's sad that there are people like you out there, gamemaker, thinking that it would not be mature at all to just ignore such a thing. Anyways, I've edited the word out of the sentence and reuploaded the first video. As I'm saying somewhere in the second one, I guess, I'm German, so my English sometimes is incorrect, both in the language part and the style (:

Last edited by special_ops (2012-10-18 18:37:42)

  • VeganDev
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Im so sorry its SO inconvenient for you, to not talk like someone needing soap to wash your mouth out with.

Would it really have been so hard, or SO inconvenient for you, to say 'what the heck!', and let it go at that, or is cussing some macho necessity these days ?

If you think its amusing to mock people that dont like to cuss to 'get their point across' then I feel very sorry for you, but you should know, that I am not alone:

http://www.nocussing.com/
http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2011/0 … at-school/
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43678114/ … IBWXXjNmDk

THis is nothing against you, obviously, its against the attitude that cussing is just fine; its not.

AS I said, Im quite glad you are doing the videos as they are needed by Im sure a significant amount of the maratis community that may have small amounts of programming skills, and until better docs are forthcoming for maratis.

And btw, ignoring is immoral to me, because that just means I think its 'ok', and I do not. I see it as a civic duty to stop abusive words everywhere.

Sorry if I sound like a grammar nazi to you, but I think most adults  who have kids, don't raise them to cuss like a sailor. I know my parents most certainly did not.

smile

cu
gm


special_ops wrote:

I've just uploaded the fourth video and will soon add the fifth one, too, as soon as it finishes uploading. It's sad that there are people like you out there, gamemaker, thinking that it would not be mature at all to just ignore such a thing. Anyways, I've edited the word out of the sentence and reuploaded the first video. As I'm saying somewhere in the second one, I guess, I'm German, so my English sometimes is incorrect, both in the language part and the style (:

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Oh, come on, and you start like half a page of just telling me how much of a macho I am and how bad I was rised? You are a moderator in here and you go right of with such a inconsiderable and kind of off topic discussion about something I said? Just calm down a bit and once look at what you said objectively; I said that I'm a German, and maybe that was the first expression that came to my mind in that moment. Wow. I'll go to hell for that, or at least my language will, regarding your reaction.

Just stay on topic, an maybe glance over your own edge of a plate a bit.

  • anael
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I will add something that I hope will close this non constructive talk.
Special_ops comes here to share something out of free kindness, I think very important to control langage but there is a line to draw between mistake and offense. Mistakes are mistakes, and can be corrected, there is no reason to be rude, it's not a way to say things, much important the thing is, and welcome people.

Now, lets continue on the original topic, and discuss this work, ideas, and mistakes if there is.

  • VeganDev
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Im sorry if I offended the video creator Anael, and I honestly didn't notice that he said he was 'german', and that his style and language might be off, but to be fair to me, he never apologized like I think he should, for cussing so harshly, nor for attacking me so harshly in his opening reply. I most certainly did not deserve that , as he claims he didnt derserve his treatment.

EVen when I was telling him its not right to cuss, I still thanked him for the videos, so it would be nice to at least get credit, for that wink

At any rate, I do welcome you to the forums and look fwd to your continued pleasing offerings to make the engine more useful. To reiterate, I didn't notice you said you were German and your style and language might be off. I accept that caused the cussing ,and that you regret that.

I will happily now given those facts, watch your videos wink

I've been wanting to do something along those lines anyway , so I thank you for taking the time to make them , and I also publicly acknowledge that you fixed the error in video 1, and appreciate that wink

cheers
gm



anael wrote:

I will add something that I hope will close this non constructive talk.
Special_ops comes here to share something out of free kindness, I think very important to control langage but there is a line to draw between mistake and offense. Mistakes are mistakes, and can be corrected, there is no reason to be rude, it's not a way to say things, much important the thing is, and welcome people.

Now, lets continue on the original topic, and discuss this work, ideas, and mistakes if there is.

Re: Some tutorials

Well, sorry if you took it like that. (: Just uploaded the sixth part.

  • anael
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The tutorial is very instructive, with the addition of sounds and how to publish a game you will cover the most important features and give a global view of what Maratis is. What else, maybe a basic GUI with some text would be also nice what do you think ? (using enableCameraLayer)

Re: Some tutorials

The next tutorial will be on adding a GUI and interactive content to the world, also covering NPCs; I planned to talk about sounds there. And thanks for your positive feedback (: About the publishing, I myself had problems with the build in feature, so I can not cover that yet.

Last edited by special_ops (2012-10-19 13:49:20)

  • anael
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Ok, cool : )
Fot the publishing problem, can you post the error you have in the bug report section ? And I'll try to debug it.
Thanks.

  • Vegas
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Hi & Welcome special_ops
Thanks you for your videos,
wonderful work really smile

Re: Some tutorials

Added Part 7 about adding some basic character sound and placed the link to the game preview here instead of in its' own thread. The publishing does not show up any error, the compiled file simply is not working on another PC (Windows 'This application has stopped' thing).

Last edited by special_ops (2012-10-20 11:28:07)

Re: Some tutorials

Added a short tutorial on 3D sounds and updated the preview file a bit.

Re: Some tutorials

Added another short tutorial on how to publish a game created with Maratis.

Re: Some tutorials

Added an improved version of a tutorial on how to create some basic terrain in Maratis (split up into two parts; basic terrain and grass/trees/water stuff). And yay, 2 hours and 20 minutes of tutorials by now (:

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Pretty good way to place vegetation, thanks for the trick ! my previous method was a complete mess

Re: Some tutorials

Unfortunately I've not had the time to watch your videos yet (the only real "free" time I have is during my commute, where I can't really watch videos) It's great that there are more people contributing tutorials to the Maratis community, so even without having seen them yet, thank you! smile I'll make sure to work my way through them soon.

Re: Some tutorials

Thanks for your comments (: Added a tutorial on how to add some basic coins (Stuff that increases a variable when collected) to the game.

Re: Some tutorials

Is it possible to add these tutorials to the main page, as part of the Tutorials menu? that way could be easier to find for new users. or curios users that stumble upon the website big_smile, and these are great tutorials to show some of what Maratis can do.

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Indeed that would be quite nice damvcool, and thanks (: Added a basic tutorial on how to create hud overlays for the game.