Monthly Report: June

This month I was able to release 5 tutorials in total. Covering basics on the VaM triggers and two LogicBricks tutorials touching the bare basics. The two part tutorial on how to record video from VaM was kind of unplanned, I decided it was needed after having a long chat with Captain Varghoss about the correct settings that should be used.

The plan is still to spend more time on making video tutorials. The LogicBricks StateMachine and also IdlePoser desperately need multiple tutorials to get across all the cool stuff you can use them for. I'm not entirely set on the order I will do these, yet. It's kind of a chicken & egg problem...you can do really cool stuff with the StateMachine brick, if you know IdlePoser....and vice versa. Yet, IdlePoser is a StateMachine in itself...so I should do the StateMachine brick first. So, I'm still trying to think of a simple example for the StateMachine that does not use IdlePoser, Timeline or other advanced plugins...while still conforming to Youtube policy regarding adult content. Aaarghh! Obviously I could make up some random stuff with flashing spheres and buttons, but I think that does not get the message across to anyone who did not yet understand how powerful this plugin is. This needs some genuine example that makes sense.

Vague plan so far:

• StateMachine Introduction: What is it, what does it do, some (to be determined) simple example that does not use anything advanced.
• StateMachine Branching Dialogs: Using the advanced StateMachine features for making branching dialogs like in the CyberNight scene.
• IdlePoser Introduction: Basic concept, simple example scene.
• IdlePoser Advanced: Anchors, TriggerSync, External Triggers, State Groups/Masks, Intermediate Points, ...
• StateMachine + IdlePoser: Advanced example where a StateMachine brick acts as a scene controller to coordinate multiple IdlePoser on multiple Characters, something like a simpler DoubleTrouble scene.

As usual, I can't give a time frame for when these will be released. Explaining complex topics to an audience not used to this kind of thing is not easy, it will eat a lot of time. But I think its needed.