Re: A Good Tutorial!?!?!?!?


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Posted by Stealth on January 26, 1998 at 09:32:35:

In Reply to: Re: A Good Tutorial!?!?!?!? posted by SaberTooth on January 25, 1998 at 21:41:16:

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> > Am I the only one that found the JED tutorial cryptic and hard to understand?
> > Does anyone know where i can find a good JED tutorial? I say we demand a better
> > tutorial and documentation!

> I barely understood the JED tutorial also. But I do understand the need to release the beta with its functions instead of putting full attention towards a full tutorial. However, I do think it would be great if their could be a full tutorial in development for the next release. That gives instructions on how to make a basic level,etc,etc....

> -SaberTooth-

The Jed tutorials main job is not to show you how to make levels, thats a JK Editing Guide of some sort you want.

The Jed tutor is supposed to explain what to do with the controls etc in Jed.If it requires a small level project then that may show up. But it won`t be for awhile.

Yeah the tutor wasn`t exactly what we wanted , but try writing something when you have a new program youve barely used that didn`t have instructions, a game nobody has ever edited levels for before.Oh hope you have lots of spare time too. By the way you have one week..because half the net is waiting for you. Now lets see what somebody else can whip up.!

Jed is still in it`s infancy as editors go, until it has most of the things that were planned on from the beginning a full scale help and tutor would be almost a full time job trying to keep up with the changes. We simply don`t have that kind of time on our hands at this juncture.

If somebody else wants to write better documentation , be our guest. Nothing to stop people from releasing their own documentation.

Heck if somebody wanted to they could use the ideas and solutions/problems posted on this and other boards rewrite them into some sort of doc and use that as a helper of some sort.

You also see a lot of posts where it`s quite obvious they didn`t even attempt to read the docs but wing their way through it.

Quiting now before i get excited !




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