Video mini-tutorials
Ralf
Administrator, ProFantasy 🖼️ 18 images Mapmaker
Hi folks, would you find mini-tutorials like this one generally useful? If yes, what mini-topics would you like to see covered?
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1) making moons in FT3
2) combining city or dungeon Annual issues into one set of tools.
My apologies, I cannot remember the other things I was looking for info on last month, but hadn't posted here.
That was a fantastic tutorial. Short, to the point, and very helpful! Yes, I think future mini-webcasts would be very useful, either from you and PF, or even from the community!
Of course, now that you've asked, I'm drawing a complete blank as far as topics. I'm sure I'll think of something later though.
Thanks again, that was very informative!
~Dogtag
And I second Dogtag suggestion to make it works for the community: Allow a centralized place where anyone can upload such short tutorials, and search into it, and I think it would make the learning curve of your software much smoother!
About topics, I'm sure many will present themselves in the forums... I have in mind an issue I have had with changing the text of a scale bar, that did not work when I tried Edit/Text/Edit text, but I had to do something else instead... And I can't remember what now
The audio seems to be segmented to me, which is a bit distracting.
I'd like to see more about Cosmographer and Fractal Terrains.
(1) How to fix errors in a Multipoly (i.e. when you get that nastly little line that runs through the shape because two lines intersect or don't match up right)
(2) How to get rid of those little artifacts that show up when you have two beveled shapes (on different sheets) on top of each other (i.e. the fix is to put a copy of the top shape with a solid color on its own sheet between the two shapes/sheets).
Also - Might be good to have a short tutorial on doing the shaded polys (for doing roofs and things like that). I think I have it figured out, but I still struggle sometimes...and its a really neat effect when done right.
JSM
And the audio was fine for me.
I watch those tutorials and Joe Sweeney's tutorials on youtube quite often. They are very helpful.
I'd even be willing to pay for a more comprehensive video tutorial series covering subjects from the Tomb of Ultimate Mapping.
The DVD of Ultimate Mapping?
However, there seems to be a small glitch in the video: At the beginning, everything is fine, but after you first click on the landmass button (around 27s), the mouse cursor stops moving, for the rest of the tutorial, making it not so easy to follow what you do.
I'd like to request/suggest a video on using an image file, such as a scanned hand-drawn map, as a reference for making a map in CC3, if you could please add that to the list.
Thanks,
~Dogtag