Reviews for The Big Fat Tutorial

[POOPTURTLE]

Wow! This is useful!

Wow! Everyone should read this! This useful stuff! Especially the camera tricks, those are awesome. All I can say is I'm extremely impressed. By the way, I do know another way to do the camera pan thing. I you have the same set of objects that are rushing by repeatedly (like turrets on a gunship as a character runs through the ship) you can put them on a movie clip, tween them to move inside the clip, then simply have two or copies of this on separate layers. However, this has very few applications and is slightly noobish, but it does the job a lot more quickly then your method when appropriate. The line proportioning thing for camera pans was genius, I will likely find this to be very useful. Thanks for your efforts to help the NG population with useful advice! This is simply outstanding. Can't wait for the sequel! But please, for loading times' sake, please don't combine this and the new one together... Just provide links in the Author's Comments. Plus, we can all get more experience that way!

Basically, my opinion says that this tutorial is simply awesome! Keep it up! :D

[mrEotter]

I love this tut!

I have one question for you friend... but um... I try this vcam, and it won't work out the faux 3d movement? I know this is probably not a good place to ask, (go to forums) but I midas well ask someone who can do it! :3 All of it is on their own layers...

[CasperNG]

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Truly Majestic in its own special way, and Ive been eagerly waiting for "The Bigger Fatter Tutorial" =( it was supposed to be out by now. (early january 2006) ahh well you can't rush art =). Keep up the awesomeness x 10 work.

Helbereth responds:

Yeah yeah, well I've been busy. I haven't had a month here and there to devote to the sequel (the original took a month to make).

When i get the chance, I have all kinds of new tricks to add in (I plan to basically redo the whole first tutorial and add in new sections... that way people would only need to see one tutorial).

[IISharperII]

Very Helpful! But one question...

I just want to say :O this tutorial has helped me sooooo much. Its fairly simple and easy to follow, very well done. But I do have one question that deals with the scripted camera. When using the scripted camera in your tutorial, you were able to have text and control buttons act independently of the camera, how did you do this? I've attemped to attach control buttons onto the camera movieclip, but they don't seem to function properly. And if I fade the camera in and out from black or some other color, they disappear as well.

Helbereth responds:

Aah, yes this bugged me for a while as well.

The camera, if it's on the main stage, forces the view of the stage to wherever the camera is, so unless your buttons move with the camera, you can't get them to stay onscreen.

I don't know of any actionscript way around this problem, but there is a way.

If your whole scene is contained in a movie clip 9camera and all) then placed on the main stage, you can put your buttons, text etc. on the stage (regardless of where the camera is as viewed from the stage), centered however you like, and the movie will play with the buttons affixed wherever you placed them.

As for the fading, I haven't found any way out of that. Whatever modifications are made to the camera have the same effect on whatever it's viewing (alpha, tinting, brightness, etc.). Personally, I'd do all the fades with the main stage (using a black square or whatever) where you have the buttons, and not even bother using the camera for it.

As for the tutorial, I never used the camera for any motion in the tutorial at all. Any motion you saw was actually done the hard way, because at the time I didn't know how to get the buttons to stay in place when using the camera.

[PRiCEisRiT2121]

SO helpful

This is the most helpful flash I have watched. Great job, I learned a lot. Keep up the great work!