LBP2-Torials: Video Tutorials by comphermc (Updated Mar. 31)

[ShamgarBlade]

Ah, I listened to the Probability tutorial the other day. You very easy to listen to and you explain how to do things in a way that everyone can understand. I'm definitely excited to see more tutorials from you! (Especially the health bar, cut scenes, and making a menu.)

[Krondelo]

These are great man, I had no idea you could even put tags on sequencers, or sequencers on sequencers to be honest! Thats amazing...

oh yeah and subbed.

[fullofwin]

These were great...and unlike the in-game tutorials my attention didn't wander and I learned a couple of things. Very polished and really well explained...you should maybe think about becoming a teacher. The adding signals/probabilty ones were very useful...in retrospect I did something quite silly to acheive a similar affect.

I don't think it matters what topic you do next...I'll most likely learn something new and useful. I would be very interested in ways to create cut scenes, especially ones w/sub-titles, camera transitions, that are skippable. Also movers...I'm sure my use of these is sub-optimal as well.

[comphermc]

Very polished and really well explained...you should maybe think about becoming a teacher.

I will graduate with a mathematics teaching degree in a few months.

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I plan to do cutscene stuff in the future. Skipping cutscenes is something I can consider, as I have an elegant solution for it. It's possible to do it without forcing players into controlinators, even.

In the next hour or so, I should have a new video up. This will be the last one for at least a couple of days, as I have to worry about school and such. Today's lesson is on sackbots, followers, and checkpoints.

[comphermc]

Sorry about the setback. Despite being told I could upload a video longer than 15 minutes, it deleted the video for being 17:03 long. I'm trying other alternatives now.

Edit: I had to upload it to my main account, which let me upload longer videos. Weeeeiiird.

[booXely]

These tutorials were extremely helpul to me and very clearly explained, I subbed to your account and I will check this thread regularly! Good luck with these tutorials, and don't worry about takng your time with the videos, you've donated enough of your time to this site already.

[Tamland]

The easiest way for you is probably splitting it into two separate parts.

I watched the other two aswell and they were great! Especially the one on addition and subtraction. Though there is something bugging me, what do you do if the sum is greater than 100%? I haven't played around with this yet and there is probably something I'm overlooking, but I can't figure it out..

Keep up the good work!

[CYMBOL]

Cool. Thanks. Very nice when folks from the community share their knowledge. One of my favorite things about LBP.

[comphermc]

The easiest way for you is probably splitting it into two separate parts.

I watched the other two aswell and they were great! Especially the one on addition and subtraction. Though there is something bugging me, what do you do if the sum is greater than 100%? I haven't played around with this yet and there is probably something I'm overlooking, but I can't figure it out..

Keep up the good work!

Thanks. I just uploaded to my main account and will cut off the last 2 minutes on the LBPlanetorials account. The last 2 minutes are just a side note anyways, and I will just direct people to the full video.

Based on that way that we were doing addition, via subtraction, you'd have to do some extra work to handle what's called overflow, or signals that should add to more than 100%.

In essence, you start with 100 and subtract a and b. If a and b together are more than 100, then after the subtraction, you would get a negative number. The absolute value of this number is actually the tens and ones place in the sum.

Running it straight through the adder we made would start counting down from 100 once it got there. 50+70 would display as 80, rather than 120.

[iBubek]

I was one of the first to watch these, nothing new to me, but useful for peopl who are logically... umm different.
Anyway, very well made, easy to understand.

[Stampy]

These are great tutorials. I only wish you make as many of them as you can. You are awesome as a tutor. You have a a nice control of your voice, you don't go to quickly or too slow, everything is so well prepared, you give examples and highlighting the possibilities of a given tool. Keep up the awesome work.

[comphermc]

Mini-update: Preview of upcoming tutorials and a level I'm working on...




I should really be working...

[croissantbuncake]

Excellent tutorials compher!! Really nicely presented, top notch stuff!

[moleynator]

Congratulations on 500 subscribers and over 2600 views! It is going AMAZINGLY seeing as you started yesterday!

I gotta try out Wizard!

[comphermc]

Yeah, the response has been... pleasant!

Now, I feel like there's all sorts of pressure to keep cranking out tutorials, but I spent all weekend doing that instead of working on my Wizard level, or, more importantly, getting work done for my classes.