How do you make tutorials?

[Chaplaindm]

Anyone,

How do you make a tutorial? I have just started my game "Heritage Lost" which is named after the book I wrote of the same name. I am fairly new at this but am getting to the point that I am getting things to work.

One thing I noticed about EC is that is is so HUGE it is hard to find anything specific to my application in the tutorials. So I figure I could start a series from start to finish on creating a 1st person RPG game. As I go along, I could document each stage as I do it: terrain generation, object placement, character importing, gui customization, etc etc. It won't be extremely indepth and would only cover one aspect (1st person fantasy rpg), but at least it would get someone going in the right direction.

But first, I have to figure out how to make a tutorial.

Thanks!
Chaplain

[stephio]

My recommendation to you it would be to use a screen recording software like Camtasia Studio. You can find free of charge screen capture software on the internet (e.g. http://camstudio.org/).
Also you can use a microphone to record your voice for additional details.
Since these programs usually do video encoding, the file size can be reduced significantly in order to share easily with other on the internet.

I'm planning to do the same thing because I just recently find these great tool (EC) and I was testing my 6 texture terrain shader in it. It worked!! SO I'm preparing a tutorial too.

It would be great if you could do that!

[Chaplaindm]

Thanks for the information! I will check this site out.

As far at your tutorial, will it cover terrain generation and texturing/ shading?

Chaplain

[stephio]

Yes but I intend to use a specialized commercial software for terrain creation as I believe it is the quickest ways, then I show how to create the shader and then use MAX to vertex paint the terrain, also import the terrain in EC then apply the shader. I will use 4 textures for the terrain and I will also apply normalmapping for each. Its not a big deal but may help.

Pleas defiantely do your video tutorials for your terrain and texturing since as many possibilities we have as better will be.

[Chaplaindm]

Sounds great! I will look forward to seeing this.

Chaplain