The Video Tutorial Thread

Alright, I think a thread like this could be _really_ awesome. Basically, the rules are: Explain a feature or something that you've just found out using the wonders of video (and audio, heh!).

I'll start. I'll quickly go over how to set background music for a layout and a sound effect for a certain event. Here we go:

My video tutorials will be stored here:

http://www.thomasmahler.com/files/const ... io2_01.avi (20mb)

Edit: Youtube Version:

http://www.thomasmahler.com/files/construct/

And maybe I'll just youtube 'em.

Also, I'm still a beginner with Construct, so I'll most likely screw up here and there or not use the most efficient solution in some cases, but I hope that doesn't matter - we can discuss better ways of doing things based on the 'screwed up videos' here as well, which could be a cool learning resource. The idea is just to get this sort of dynamic going, since learning through videos is probably the fastest way to learn.

Interesting! I'll take a look.

This is a great idea! It'd be really useful to have a list of mini video-tutorials on how to do simple tasks. We could list them on the wiki as well to help new users. What do you think?

That's what I was thinking. If every user adds a couple of video tutorials based on real time scenarios, we'd quickly have a pretty awesome documentation.

Most users will probably want to start out with a simple adventure game, a platformer or whatever and a lot of them would be dealing with the same set of problems (how do I set the character controls? How do I add sound and music? How do I add dialogue? How do I define animation?). If you can watch someone else solving this problem, you'll have a much easier time understanding why shit happens and how things should work.

The way I see it: Game Creators should be busy with the actual game creation and spend less time solving technical problems. That's why Construct is so wonderfully refreshing

Deadeye, you're next

Very nice tutorial, but may I suggest using Vimeo instead of YouTube, for video quality reasons?

Your AVI was perfect, apart from the audio sync when you tested the jumping (which I guess is a video capture issue more than anything else). However the YouTube version is barely watchable, since the fine text on the event sheet was just a smudge of pixels.

Can't wait to see more.

I have access to camtasia through work, maybe I'll try my hand at some as well.

Just a quick one:

http://www.thomasmahler.com/files/construct/hud_01.avi

I hope you don't mind, but I threw up a few links to the videos on your server on the wiki. I understand they're large files hosted on your server so if the bandwidth is a problem, let me know and we can try youtubing them or something like that. Thanks - I like these videos

Nah, no problem, I'll tell you before my host is gonna kill me, but I think we should have more than enough bandwidth

I'll keep doing these vids once my new project is a little more... presentable. They're fairly quick to do and will probably help new users get into the app really quickly - together with deadeyes platforming school thingy and the wiki itself.

Thanks for the video's! Really good point about using the binary resource bar and "play from resource" action in the Xaudio2 tutorial. I'm going to use that from now on - makes it a cinch to add sound actions. Also liked the separate event sheet for sounds. The video is great quality, too - I could see everything clearly on my 24" monitor. Thanks for hosting the download!

Good initiative. You're right, video-learning might be the fastest way.