@DLively - Keep Up the effort. Consider advice and ignore unhelpful criticism. Reach out to the people here in pm's if you want someone to correct any possible errors. (Malice >> NOT IT).




@ALL-OTHERS I'm sure he would read a video-script if you wrote one and pm'd it to him. OR maybe post your videos on the channel.

Oh and forget to add; good job on the already done videos.

@Reconnoiter: Im using WED as a base so people can understand things slowly instead of pushing them right into it. Im not there yet, but i will cover creating a level purly through script. I dont use blocks. EDIT: Except that one tutorial because I was to lazy to create and save a cube as MDL -- and it wasnt relevant to the tutorial -- and I told the viewers NEVER to use blocks too.)

Also the Volume Sounds great on my end.. But thanks for the info. I'll turn it up


Thanks guys
I Also appreciate the crits. Ill take em and leave em

EDIT: Thanks Sivan! I'll consider doing that in the future when I am looking for a project

@Malice: LoL

Hey DLively,

nice tutorial so far!

It seems that few videos exist for A8...not sure why...when this is cool engine

Can you cover enemy AI? And levels loading and saving?

And creating models in Med ?

Do you take PayPal donations ? :-)

@sitrep: Thanks! I agree. there just aren't enough videos. So I shall fill the quota.
Yes, I will be implementing all your requested features as time goes on I'll likely get to level loading and modeling in MED soon, but AI is a bit further away on my list right now since I'm working on the basics still

I work steady for about 3-4 days straight a week, and then spend time with my two children for most of the rest.

Yes I do accept and appreciate paypal donations of any amount greater than 0

Thanks for taking an interest sitrep!

, oh my bad, I thought since you used wed you would use blocks too.
In that case I can only recommend you to use an other editor since it would give no real disadvantages than .

cheers

I have some further thoughts:

I have watched a lot of UE4 video tutorials recently, I found it practical to spend shorter time with typing, if you have a pre-made project, you can copy-paste lines, then you have more time to explain what it does, and users can stop the video to type it. Moreover, you can save and publish the project after each video, to help lazy users

If you plan to make a little outdoor game, level design is easy with MapBuilder (within or out of the editor code), lighting and shadows are automatically set for each engine edition, but action assignment to entities is currently not supported. I planned to make a player editor, but it would be a large task (I wanted to integrate the navmesh pathfinder of WJBender to easily create enemy AI). And I have never really needed it for my RTS game...

sry for going a bit offtopic here DLively;

, easy but not perfect solution; use a skill for giving entities an ID number / action number that people can use in their script to give the enitity a new function. It's not the nicest solution but it does give the advantage of having parameters for entity 'actions'. And having an ID skill is always helpfull so the skill does not go to waste .

example:

I'll eventually touch on the more complex issues of game development such as editors and the like.
If you recall to when you knew nothing of this program -- anything but what the program 'did' in front of you was confusing until the basics were understood.. then WED became unnecessary...

I'm not worried about things being perfect. People who do this tutorial from scratch only spend 5+ hours learning and then have enough to start making a whole fps - If they study it a few times they should have no problem understanding what I'm doing. I usually try to explain what i'm doing as I do it, even as I type. If people need to stop the video and type while I'm typing so be it. I dont mind following tutorials like that and im a fussy guy.

I don't plan on providing the source code until the tutorial is complete. people who donate 5.00 or more during or after the tutorial will receive the full version of the tutorial complete in its entirety, sent to the email I receive the donation from

As much as I'd like to just give away ALL my knowledge and resources for free, I can't.
This is, in a sense a simplified version of my worked up versions, and customs that I no longer use because I've improved upon them, and dont want them to just collect dust - So I might as well do something productive with them (The player movement and camera are pretty updated, they just lack a few extra things I didnt add in)

@DLively, true. Though the only reason I mentioned using something else than WED was so you get more people interested in your work (so to help you, I personally have no gain in this).
WED nowadays is not the most inviting tool to newcomers. I know it would scare me off .