Month: May 2017

How to Cut in Shotcut

How to cut in shot cut

Why would you need to edit in Shot cut? Well it’s simple without cuts your video would be too long. This tutorial is very simple and easy to understand.

If you are wishing to trim your video click the bar and drag to trim. or to make longer if already trimmed.

Put your marker tool at the point of the video you want to cut. Make sure you spilt at play head by right clicking on the area.

Once you have completed these steps you are good to go for cutting in shot cut. Once you have completed these steps you can keep editing and trimming your video.PIC

How to reduce effort put into coding.

Step 1. Make a function.

Step 2. Name the function.

Step 3. Insert what you want it to do.

Step 3. Call for the functions whenever you want that to happen.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Or/And~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Step 1. Make a loop.

Step 2. insert code (you can repeat whatever you want which is useful if you’re using the same couple of functions multiple times over.)

Step 3. Step how much you want the loop to repeat.

How to Make a 2D Sprite in Unity

Hello, world. In this tutorial I will be describing the steps to making a video game sprite of your very own.

  1. Download a portable version of Inkscape to your file on the c drive  from https://inkscape.org/en/download/
  2. Now, this step is extremely important: open Inkscape. 
  3. Next let’s start with the head. Use the circle tool. 
  4. We can edit the head using the Fill and Stroke window. Open this with Shift+Ctrl+F.                                                  
  5. Now let’s make a body. First make a new layer below the head. You can open the Layers window using Shift+Ctrl+L. 
  6. Use the Bezier tool to make a rough shape. It does not have to be perfect, here you can see mine is anything but. 
  7. Using the Edit Path By Nodes tool you can edit the line work. Now it will take the shape you want.                             
  8. If you don’t want the body to have the same style as the head then go ahead and make it however you wish. If you do want it to be the same, first copy the head (Ctrl+C) and then paste the style (Shift+Ctrl+V). 
  9. Using the same tricks you can build up the rest of the sprite, and keep the parts on different layers. You can group shapes together (Ctrl+G) or use the various path options (top ribbon) to form more complex shapes.  
  10. Now that you have your basic sprite, let’s make the sprite sheet. We’re going to make this little guy dance. Copy your sprite a few times. You need to copy the parts separately to keep them on the right layers. 
  11. Edit the parts just a little bit. Move a leg on the second sprite, move it back in the second, etc.                                         
  12. Make sure that the sprites are not touching each other. Highlight the whole sprite and keep the squares from touching or overlapping. 
  13. Export the file as a png (Shift+Ctrl+E). Make sure you are not highlighting anything when you do this. If you open the sprite sheet in images and the background is transparent then you did it right.  
  14. Now open your game in Unity and have the sprite sheet pulled up in the folder. Make sure you have a 2d game. 
  15. Drag the sprite sheet into your empty game object. If you do not have an empty game object, then make one. It’s Ctrl+Shift+N. 
  16. Open the sheet in inspector mode. Make sure it is multiple, not single. 
  17. Open the sprite editor. Slice your sprites. You should now be able to open the sheet and have each sprite individual.  
  18. Set up a animator. Create your Default Layer State. 
  19. Select the sprites and make an animation. Do this by highlighting your sprites, right clicking, hovering over the ‘create’ option, and clicking on the animation option.                           
  20. Once you have your animation, make sure to make it loop. Select your animation, open in inspector mode, and check the loop time box. 
  21. Now that the animation is finished, open your default state in the animator.                                                        
  22. Drag your animation into the motion box. You can edit the speed of the animation just below it.                                
  23. Drag the animator into your game object. 
  24. Make a sprite renderer in your game object. 
  25. Play your game. The sprite should appear and be animated. If it is not, then you did something wrong. It’s okay to cry at this point. There is no shame. Do it. I know you want to.

How to make a basic text-based game in Python

1) Import ‘time.’

It will be used to create a timer for a clear-screen.

2)
This creates a waiting timer, which counts down in milliseconds.

3)
This will clear the screen of all text.

4)Your also going to need to have something to count progress in the game, something as simple as this will do:

Your code will need this, and will add to this to represent furthering the game.

5) Create several directories that represent the possible actions a player can choose from.
For example:

6) Put the entire game within a ‘while’ loop:

This forces the code to continually loop so the game doesn’t crash if a player re-does a previously used command.

7) At the beginning of while the loop, declare the cls(); and create a simple statement:

The ‘cls’ clears the screen, and the newly-created ‘response’ will allow the player to actually make inputs to the game, so it actually becomes a playable game.

8) Create many, many elif (else if) statements. Every elif will represent an action and progress level. The simplest way to have it would be:

9) For displaying text to the user:

10) For progression in a game, under any of the elifs, then place this under the code:

The last three steps will be repeated many times, and will generally line up to make a full story, possibly with extreme amounts of flavor text.

How to Create a Randomly Generated Game Board

 

This How to will show you how to create a randomly generated 8×8 map using C# code. The code does require some sprites to be useful, but any sprite will be able to be used to make your own version!

Hope this helps!

  1. Create your variables as public GameObject[] (name);. This will allow you to assign sprites to each individual group and will place them appropriately throughout the game board.
  2. Now, using for loops to prepare to generate a new board
  3. Now run a script, preperably named apprioprately (boardSetup), and set up a new GameObject to be the board. Then use for loops to fill in the outsides and insides of the board.
  4. Next, run a command that allows us to randomly layout objects, with a minimum and maximum set, which should be set as varibles at the beginning of the script. (ex. Public int maximum = 8;)
  5. Now we will actually be creating the board by calling the functions we created above and also adding how many enemies will be on per level, with a mathematic equation.
  6. Once done with the script, go to Unity and create a empty child under the GameObject tab. Rename the object GameManager and add the script to it.
  7. Then select the desired sprites for each category (outside wall, floor, food, enemy) and using shirt + click or cntl + click, drag and drop the prefabs onto the script.
  8. After filling in all the categories, drag the GameManager object into the prefabs folder and delete the object for the hierarchy.

How to Github to host a website [FREE]

Perhaps you need to have a site for some reason, maybe it’s a download page, maybe it’s an information page, or maybe it’s just a site in general, anyways, what you made your site for is not important. What is important is that you will need to get it hosted somewhere, luckily I’ve got your back on this one. All we need to do is make a GitHub Page, and fortunately for you, this guide will show you how, and it’s free just in-case you were wondering.

Things that you may need: GitHub Desktop (So we can actually do this), A website, and a bit of common sense, also a web browser.

Go here: https://github.com, then do as the pictures below do.

 

Now, we must open up GitHub desktop, and, then after logging in, we’re going to want to open the Git Shell, a picture below will show you what to do to open it.

After you get the shell open, you wan to type the below in, also, make sure that after each line ends, you press enter, because this is not all just one line.

echo "# *yourrepository*" >> README.md
git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git remote add origin https://github.com/*yourgithubusername*/*your repositoryname*.git
git push -u origin master

We then need to do is move the site, and all of its files into the place where the Blue arrow points into, and then make sure that we choose “Make a new branch” and in the new branch name it ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO SAY “gh-pages” if you don’t do this then you won’t get a working site.

Then you can find your site at *your github user name*.github.io/*your github repository*

AND there we go! Now we have free hosting for our website which is great.

How to use Movie Maker

Step 1 Planning: For the first step, you should probably plan your video out. When we were creating our concussion video, we planned out our slides before we actually starting creating them, which we found was easier than just trying to get right into creating the slide without planning.

Step 2 Creating your first slide: To start off your video, you have 2 options, you can put in your own slide or you can get a clip online and put it in. In our concussion video, we had a mix of clips from online and a mix of our own.

Step 3 adding text/font/font size: to add text in your slides, hit the caption button on the top and you can edit your font size or change your font.

how to make an infinity mirror

Mirrors are cool, so are LED lights, so what if we put one and one together. That’s exactly what I did with something the internet calls “the infinity mirror”. Its a mirror that projects LED lights off itself and reflects it into the mirror. Its amazing and thanks to the wiki how article I used.

1: Gather mirrored window tint, a picture frame that is thick, a mirror the same size as your frame, string LED s lights, wooden small rectangles (if the mirror is the exact size of the frame you can glue it down to the frame), something to groove out wood or whatever the frame is made of, and a lot of hot glue or gorilla glue.

2: Remove the glass of the frame, and set it somewhere. meanwhile clean both the mirror and the glass with a little bit of glass cleaner.

3: Cut out a piece of window tint bigger than the glass and follow the instructions for putting the window tint onto the glass. let that dry for a few hours to be on the safe side.

4: If you want a symbol in the middle of the infinity mirror get some thin, flat wood and paint, engrave, or cut whatever you want into the piece of wood. get creative with this part.(like if you make a symbol from a violent game, add some acrylic paint to the frame to give it a blood stained or blood covered effect)

5: When the tent is done drying grab the frame and the mirror and get to assemble.

6: Put the glass down in the frame first, if the frame has a backing put the mirror in first, dig out a groove big enough for the LED cord to fit, put, and glue the wooden rectangles on to the mirror if needed. put the LED s on the inside of the frame, making sure to get into the corners. feed the wire into the groove, put the frame or mirror on top and glue it down.

(optional)7: Brag to your friends about how cool you are with this mirror, its pretty sick.

i created a kind of nice infinity mirror and i’m creating another mirror.

Items i used

-mirrors (https://www.lowes.com/pd/Style-Selections-12-in-x-12-in-Silver-Polished-Square-Frameless-Traditional-Wall-Mirror/1161873)

-dark window tint (https://www.lowes.com/pd/GILA-36-in-W-x-78-in-L-Black-Privacy-Control-Static-Cling-Window-Film/1065343) use a mirrored window tint to get a better effect

-i could not for the life of me find where I got the frame.

-LED s found off amazon find ones that work for you

-gorilla glue found at any hardware store

-wooden spokes found from the woodworking class

-wooden circle plate found at Michael

 

Animation Tutorial

Below are pictures to my process in creating sprite animations in unity with captions to help you step by step. I made my sprites in adobe illustrator and photoshop. Keep in mind that you need to save copies of the files as illustrator, photoshop, and .png files just in case you need to edit, or reuse the files. Click on the photos for a full view of the screen.

 

 

Finished Roguelike 2D Game

The (should be) finished version of the game is linked below. After playing the game, if you could take the survey to give me some feedback that would be awesome! Thanks 🙂

To play the game ask me, (Im wearing the Iowa State t shirt), and I can have you play the game on the computer next to mine. Unfortunately the file size was too large to directly link. Sorry 🙁

Survey: https://goo.gl/forms/jheK5WK9LzX9QxB12

Gracias!