Modding Tutorial Website @ 60%

[PotentPotables]

Okay, I'm sure some of ya know by now that I learned myself some HTML and have been working on a Website for Modding Tutorials. The Site works on 2 Frames, left for TOC and right for Page viewing.

As of right now, I am finished with everything but the VRS portion of the Site. I'm posting this now because I'd like to get a good host for it.

Topics Covered:

• Getting Started
  • Knowledge is Power
• ChangeTex v0.03
  
  • All About ChangeTex
• Model Viewer v2.21
  
  • Introduction
  • Exporting .DAT Files
  • Importing .DAT Files
• POLUtils v0.8.3
  
  • All About Most of POLUtils
• Metasequoia v2.3.4
  
  • Introduction
  • UV Remapping Introduction
  • UV Remapping
  • Reshaping Models
• VRS v1.0
  
  • Introduction
  • Importing .DAT Information
  • Exporting .DAT Information
  • Adding New Material
  • Manipulating Vertices
  • Creating Primitives
  • Combining Models
  • Moving Skeletal Objects
  • Setting Skeletal Weights
  • Changing/Creating Movement
• Graphics Converter v3.0
  
  • Introduction
  • Converting Textures
  • Alpha Mapping

At this time :

Total File size = 12MB, but with VRS completed it should jump up to around 25 or 30.
Web Pages = 101KB
Pics = 11.8MB
CSS = 752Bt



Any of you hi-speeds wanna host this, please let me know. That way, I can upload what I have already, change the File Paths, and use the new filepaths while I write the VRS Tutorials.



If you have an interest in Hosting it and want an actual preview of the Site, I can .zip the files and put them up for DL, just let me know. Only thing is, you'll need to make a G:\ Drive to view them. Can be done by burning the files to a CD-r or DVD-r and then changing the Drive Letter.

[Balfree]

Re: Modding Tutorial Website @ 60%

why not use the article section right here? or a blog?

[PotentPotables]

Re: Modding Tutorial Website @ 60%

Will the articles section support HTML and Frames? I kinda wanted to keep the formatting I had going. Open website, TOC nav on left, read your info on the right, that sort of thing.

I could submit the individual pages but thenit would lose some of teachers flow and might be slightly more confusing due to the way it's been written and laid out.

As far as a Blog goes, same questions as above. I've never done anything with Blogs so I wouldn't know.

[neighbortaru]

Re: Modding Tutorial Website @ 60%

it'll most like support html, but not frames (teh evil). Have to spoken to kilandor and see if he has a place on his site for this? it would only seem appropriate

[PotentPotables]

Re: Modding Tutorial Website @ 60%

I talked to him before and Im sure he'll read this next time he gets on. After it's all done I'll give it up to him, but I also did some searching and I'm going to put it up on a free 50megs account for now and then get an Ad-Free account on payday. That way, I know when it's up or down and don't have to worry about someone else getting a bad taste in their mouth and dropping it or something.

Yeah, and I know Frames are old-school, but it was the best I could come up with without running myself through Java or dHTML Tutorials.

Site can be seen as I progress at www.grumpyrarab.ffximc.com

*edit*

Added website to .DAT Links Sticky. Just so ya know it's there if the Guns start blazin' again...

[Medalink]

Re: Modding Tutorial Website @ 60%

If you wanna buy a domain I can host it for you on my server. Domains only cost around US $8.00 a year. I have a dedicated server that I can host it on,

I also can help ya with HTML or whatever you need, I am a programmer and can shed light on anything you might need.

Medalink

[Balfree]

Re: Modding Tutorial Website @ 60%

Exceptional work PPT.

[Kensai-cel]

Re: Modding Tutorial Website @ 60%

Dude, honestly, your website kicks ass, it's pretty much telling me my problem. Only one little problem, and I know it's not done, but maybe you can tell me...

Simple Reminders

* Above all, when you're working on a center Vertex, lock the X axis. This prevents the "spreading" of the Model when imported back into Model Viewer.

This just happened to me, I edited a model, saved it then imported it to the model viewer, and the polygons shot out in every direction. How exactly do you lock the X axis?

EDIT: nvm... freaking crap, I kept reading some more and about 80% of the damn tools on metasequoia apparently corrupt the model like you said. So wtf really is the point.. the only thing I can do is just stretch shit. I'll definetely stick to texturing now.

[Kilandor]

Re: Modding Tutorial Website @ 60%

Potent i'll host it for you i'll PM you and give you FTP details so you can directly access and modify it youself. As needed. Also same if you wanted to get your own domain I could set it up also easily.

Edit-
PM sent with details.

[PotentPotables]

Re: Modding Tutorial Website @ 60%

Updated links to site.

Thank Kilandor for the free space.

[Imkindalost]

Re: Modding Tutorial Website @ 60%

Nice work PP i bookmarked your site i like the simple layout btw, none of that bs to scroll past, straight forward and easy to use just the way i like

Some of this new stuff that people use when making sites isnt too friendly for us older people the whole blog scene confuses the hell out of me, myspace i cant figure out lol... i gave up on my myspace

[Mellowy]

Re: Modding Tutorial Website @ 60%

Checking out the site and...on meta part 2 you have:

Normalize - Makes everything normal again? Just guessing.

And from the name it sounds more like you should guess on it setting the lenght of a vector to 1. Since that is what it means in all my math courses. Best is probably to try and use it though >_>

Also the first one with introduction gave a lot of X images.


Looking forward to the VRS part.

[PotentPotables]

Re: Modding Tutorial Website @ 60%

Checking out the site and...on meta part 2 you have:
Normalize - Makes everything normal again? Just guessing.
And from the name it sounds more like you should guess on it setting the lenght of a vector to 1. Since that is what it means in all my math courses. Best is probably to try and use it though >_>

Stuff is designated like that on the tutorial because I've tried using the tool and it seems to do nothing. It doesn't do anything directly on the screen, nor does it mess with import/export at all.

Also the first one with introduction gave a lot of X images.Looking forward to the VRS part.

Might have been because I was still loading FTPing the site. It should be good now, minus the VRS links, since I'm working on themn as I type.

*edit* nope, just checked and somethings wrong with those specific Pics. I don't know what it is since the code worked fine reading from local and Ive uploaded the .JPG's just fine. I'll figure it out, though.*endedit*

*re-edit*Fixed it. apparaently I forgot after a batch conversion to change my Uppercase File Extensions to Lowercase File Extensions and that creates a problem. Thought only Java had that issue, ot HTML. Regardless, it's fixed after alot of headaches and troubleshooting from a neweb perspective.*endre-edit*

Just need a break sometimes...

And thanks all for the positive feedback from everyone. I knew when I read the HTML Stuff that I was working with outdated codes, but I really didn't feel like learning Java or dHTML or whatever is the rage amongst designers now.

[PotentPotables]

Re: Modding Tutorial Website @ 60%

For those that know absolutely nothing about VRS or cannot even get it opened, I have finished the Intro portion of VRS on my site.

Hope you enjoy.

After a short break, I'll be going back to write some more of the rest.

[dabadking]

Re: Modding Tutorial Website @ 60%

sweet ^^ take your time, glad your still going on it lots of things I want to learn with VRS, but I'm slowly getting there with everyones tutorials heheh.