Live stream tomorrow
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Howdy mappers.
I'll be handling tomorrow's live mapping stream. It will be streamed on the ProFantasy FaceBook page as usual. (Event info). Stream should be available to everyone, you shouldn't need a FB account (allthough FB do like to tell you that you should get one anyway). You'll need one to chat/comment during the stream though.
This week, the stream will handle moderns streets using SS3.
The stream will happen at 18:00 hours Central European Summer Time (CEST), visit the event post, and I am sure facebook will tell you the time in your time zone.
This is the first time I am ever attempting a live stream, so I am sure I will be messing some things up, but I guess either you'll learn something, or you'll get something to laugh at. Either way, it is a win for you
Considering that I spend considerably more of my life here in the forums than on FB, don't hesitate to use the forums if you have questions after the video, probably won't be able to monitor the forums during the stream though.
And I'd love feedback on the stream. Tell me if I am overexplaining or underexplaining things. I am a teacher by trade, so I can get a bit wordy at times, just ask my students.
Note that there is a 30-60 second stream delay on FB, which means that even if I answer a question immediately, it will still be about a minute until you hear me address it. I am not sure how fast I will be responding to comments though, it is difficult reading the chat and talking to the audience explaining what you are doing at the same time. All of this is just things I need to figure out though, as I said above, this is the first time I attempt a live stream. Well, at least in these forms. I've done some online teaching these last few months, because the university campus have been closed due to certain recent events. Teaching is quite different though.
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I'll be handling tomorrow's live mapping stream. It will be streamed on the ProFantasy FaceBook page as usual. (Event info). Stream should be available to everyone, you shouldn't need a FB account (allthough FB do like to tell you that you should get one anyway). You'll need one to chat/comment during the stream though.
This week, the stream will handle moderns streets using SS3.
The stream will happen at 18:00 hours Central European Summer Time (CEST), visit the event post, and I am sure facebook will tell you the time in your time zone.
This is the first time I am ever attempting a live stream, so I am sure I will be messing some things up, but I guess either you'll learn something, or you'll get something to laugh at. Either way, it is a win for you
Considering that I spend considerably more of my life here in the forums than on FB, don't hesitate to use the forums if you have questions after the video, probably won't be able to monitor the forums during the stream though.
And I'd love feedback on the stream. Tell me if I am overexplaining or underexplaining things. I am a teacher by trade, so I can get a bit wordy at times, just ask my students.
Note that there is a 30-60 second stream delay on FB, which means that even if I answer a question immediately, it will still be about a minute until you hear me address it. I am not sure how fast I will be responding to comments though, it is difficult reading the chat and talking to the audience explaining what you are doing at the same time. All of this is just things I need to figure out though, as I said above, this is the first time I attempt a live stream. Well, at least in these forms. I've done some online teaching these last few months, because the university campus have been closed due to certain recent events. Teaching is quite different though.
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I am really looking forward to this
I learned a lot, and I think I will find it an important place to send people with questions about line styles particularly from now on.
I am sure Ralf will give you a slot whenever you want one
Some familiar things shown, of course, some not so - changing the format for the dashed road lines was a particularly interesting feature for me.
And interesting too to see this being done for a modern floorplan, in essence, which I'd guess will be outside quite a few of our more regular commentators' mapping expertise (mine, certainly).
Personally, I'd have liked to see more on making things look a bit more "real" - so tricks for making worn-looking and damaged road surface patches, pavement edges and road markings, say. Or maybe it's only British roads that have those
Well done, Remy!
I'll probably do some more tutorialish-videos in the future.
This livestream-format is a bit limited, since I should both watch the length of the stream, and also avoid making things to complicated. People do come to see some live mapping being done, and not just a specific concept being explained, so I need to focus on making a usable map here. I could probably have spent an hour on the sidewalk edges alone.
I don't know if you remember the modern map I did for Shessar's competition a few years back, but the detail work in that one took quite a few hours (There's a full tutorial for that one in the tome).
And believe me, I am no stranger to real roads looking worn, pavement stones out of alignment, missing/obscured makings, etc. Just come visit and look at our roads....
And yes, it's very easy to get sucked into endlessly tweaking fine details, which works well when all you're doing is creating a map till you're happy with it; not so good when there's a time-limit and such fine detail work may not be of much interest to a lot of folks watching!
Wanted to say too that I just used that trick of altering the dashed-line appearance for real today myself.
I did wonder about the worn roads when I heard your comment about the too-long shadows on the potholes; not going to say they looked quite normal to me, but...