WED/MED Tutorial Contest!

Our WED and MED tutorials are sort of outdated, as they were written with A6. The WED tutorial is also overly complicated as it covers unnecessary details.

Therefore we're offering two user contests, for a WED and a MED tutorial. The WED tutorial should cover creating and lighting a small level (including a sky and applying a shader), the MED tutorial should cover creating a terrain and a simple bones animated actor. Both tutorials need not be longer than a few pages, and should be in HTML format using the same stylesheet as our online manual. They should be based on the current 7.82 public beta.

The reward for the best WED or MED tutorial is a free A7 Pro upgrade.

Too bad that I suck at WED and MED. But I'll give it a try. I'm in.

I will try, too

In english, right?

im in

which sky do you mean? skycube or skydome?

I think both, so that the user can decide later

English is fine, and a sky cube is sufficient. Just the stuff needed for a basic level.

what about the deadline? i want to give this a try but exam weeks are approaching.

There is no fixed deadline. We just check the contributions, and as soon as one is good enough for a new tutorial, it will be declared the winner. But there is at least time until February 1st - we won't declare a winner until then.

The quality should be comparable to George's lite-C tutorials.

good enough, i'll give it a try for sure then.
thanks.

How can i do the same stylesheet like the manual i can only do html ):

I have nice experience with both WED and MED, but I only have A6, which kind of defeats the point of this endeavor.

you download a7 free, you get both med and wed, usage is same in all editions?

Hello JCL, i hope it is no too late for this. Did you already pick the winners?

I am working on a MED tutorial, i was planning it to finish today but because of some other unrelated matters i could not worked on it as much as i planned today, i am planning to finish it tomorrow.

I am still going to finish it even if it is too late.

Some answers:

- Can only do HTML, no stylesheets: I suppose your HTML editor is from 1990 then. Time to get a newer one. The stylesheet css.css can be downloaded from the online manual.

- Have only A6: No excuse, as the free A7 version contains all editors.

- Is it too late: No, we have no winner yet, not even any complete entries. So there's still plenty time.

i posted a tutorial in the forum. the link is to my site. it covers med,sed,ged and wed. would it do? it only explains what each of them do and how to make a basic room.

mikaldinho please upload again.
Your RapidShare account expired.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

This may sound like a stupid question but where do I find the current "WED and MED tutorials [that] are sort of outdated" ?

Gamestudio download page: http://www.3dgamestudio.com/download.php

Ok thanks.

I'm working on one...should be finished in 2-3 weeks.

EDIT: hum how is possible this reply come here
I make a post in other place

sorry

About this contest,

Is it still a good idea to keep up with A7 version of the tutorials?

here is an updated link:
http://cid-7eaaaecff478ea90.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/.Public?uc=1

please enjoy! - it does cover SED and GED too.

regards,
Michael


edit: it is a A7 tutorial.

Thanks for the link. An A7 based tutorial is fine. The A8 editors look a little different, but the basic functions are identical. So the A7 editor tutorial is 95% usable for A8.

when is the contest over?????

it seems to have been going for a long time now.

i have entered successfully.

no-one else has.

does this mean i have won?

even if you had the only entry you do not meet the requierements:

You won a jump from a very high bridge!


...now go away and redeem your price Double Post Master

If it's not too late I may make one for WED while away on my easter vacation this weekend.

Will the winners upgrade to professional license carry over to the A8 edition when out?

- Matt

Hi, I would like to submit my WED Tutorial for this contest. I have uploaded the tutorial to external sources that can be downloaded from any of the appended links.

3DGamestudio - A7 WED Tutorial.zip (848KB):
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3DGamestudio - A7 WED Tutorial.docx [Printer-Friendly Version] (843KB):
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3DGamestudio - A7 WED Tutorial.rtf [Printer-Friendly Version] (20 649KB):
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Thank you for your interest,
Dveyee

Hiya.

Nice, clean and simple. Only one little glitch I found; on the second page where you talk about normal maps and shader applying. It's not "mtIFC.c", nor is it "mtIFX.c"; its "mtlFX.c" (thats a small "L" between t and F).

PS: Suggestion; don't just have the 'document' in the latest propriatary .docx format. If I were you, I'd also include the option for .rtx (Richtext) and .odt (Openoffic.org) formats. That way all the bases are covered.

Hello, thank you for your input! I have corrected the typing errors that you specified and I have also provided an alternative copy of the printer-friendly tutorial in rich text format.

I apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused.

Thank you,
Dveyee

Some more feedback: It's basically fine, but the second part could be a little more extensive. Creation of the courtyard with different textures and remove of the upper block should be described in more detail. Also give a screenshot of the courtyard in the engine, with proper shadows from the sun. Show how to set the sun angle and overall lighting in Map Properties. The sky looks not good, use a sky cube and show the users to check "Sky Cube" in Preferences for getting a correct sky image in the 3D view. For the light in the house, add some object, like a table, for testing the shadows. Last but not least, show an image of the bump mapping in the engine so that the users can see if they made it right.

Apart from that, the tutorial fulfills the requirements. With some little improvements it can very well win the contest!

Hi, I have implemented your suggestions into the tutorial. I have uploaded the tutorial to external sources that can be downloaded from any of the appended links.

EDIT: I apologize that the links will be temporarily unavailable.

Thank you for your interest,
Dveyee

That's now a nice tutorial, short and clear.

The contest will end by May 31. The current front runner is Dveyee.

I'm still working on mine... I'll have it in before the deadline.

yeah me too.

Ahm can someone upload this WED Tut from Dveyee again because all links are dead
Thank you
WFG Progger

i will be uploading my entry in half an hour

Here is my MED tutorial submission:

3D GameStudio MED Tutorial(Med interface introduction and basics, basic modelling,unwrapping and applying skins, terrain editing, creating an actor model, adding bones and attaching vertices, adding animation frames and animating):

http://depot.acknexturk.com/med_tut.zip ~4.15 mb

edit: added missing files to the archive.

@ quadraxas: you only just made it!

and i like your tut best of all personally :-)

@JCL: is there some "thanks for entering" prize?

Thanks for all entering this contest - although there is no prize for entering, but only for winning.

The contest is over! The winners will be decided and announced in the next days.

Ok - here are the winners:

Best WED tutorial: http://www.conitec.net/tutorial/wed by Dveyee

Best MED tutorial: http://www.conitec.net/tutorial/med by Quadraxas

Both winners will be contacted soon for collecting their prizes.

There was a second MED tutorial by vertex that had almost won, so it was a very close race. Thanks to all who participated in this contest!

congrats to the winners!

well done to those who won!!

Well done! I already overflew both.
Many pictures, good discriptions, excellent work.

Congratulation! Good work

Hello,

Congratulation the winners. Very good work.

bye

White_Wolf

Thank you all!

And Congrats Dveyee!

that's really impressive,Congratulation guys.
keep up the good work

Congrats Quadraxas.
Yours is a good tutorial.