Can someone direct to an Advanced Foundry tutorial?

gigaman123 · April 2015

I definitely know the basics. However I want to go advanced.

I want to know what every button does, and good tricks.

Can someone point me toward a Tutorial for advanced things for the foundry?

johnnysnowball · April 2015

That's a good point. I don't remember if Kirkfat ever did any really advanced tutorials or just the basics.

He did do a video to show how you could choose dialogue button states so a talk-to-contact experience would change depending on if you interacted with objects. And he did one to show how the mission could become a different experience by making one of two optional choices interacting with a console (use it or destroy it, one spawning a lot of enemies)
If you know all that stuff already there's very little to teach. It's then up to you to find complicated ways of your own to make what you imagine come to life.
With some advanced tricks it's a case of many people wouldn't know how to explain it unless they tried to do it themselves for a mission.
If no one knows of an advanced tutorial, maybe ask specific questions about the buttons you are wondering about.

Also it's good to know that only map dialogues (bubbles you drag onto a map) have a failure option. this consigns them to the side of your screen as a HUD button to be used again anytime on the map.

Anyway it's a good question. Any advanced tutorials out there?

Foundry Roundtable gave a quick vid tutorial on how to have a turbolift mission that spawned one deck and despawned another. That can work nicely.

What kind of things are you looking for?

johnnysnowball · April 2015

Do search for Kirkfat you tube vids anyway* You may find something new.

helixfungus · April 2015

Does Kirkfat still doing those amazing vids ? I learned 90 percent of Foundry mechanics thru that stuff...

johnnysnowball · April 2015

As did I, but not for some time. Foundry Roundtable and Author's Outpost try to cover mechanics when they can.
The Author's Outpost (Castmodean and Capt.PF Dennis) Are open to suggestions for tutorials they could run on their show.

gigaman123 · April 2015

I'll definitely check him out. I've got plenty of time due to the foundry being down. I learned the basics by myself, so there is probably going to be things that I didn't know how to do.

Thanks.

farnihr · April 2015

Not a tutorial, but a 470 pages strong manual:
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1434951

gigaman123 · April 2015

Unfortunatly, I cannot speak German. Google Translate doesn't work well at all.

thegreendragoon1 · April 2015

Here's the link to Starbase UGC's collection of tutorials, covering a wide range of topics. Some might be a little dusty, but even then most of the concepts should apply.

Beyond that, if you have something you're specifically looking to do, it's best to just ask here, or in the Starbase UGC chat.

farnihr · April 2015

thegreendragoon1 wrote: »

Here's the link to Starbase UGC's collection of tutorials, covering a wide range of topics. Some might be a little dusty, but even then most of the concepts should apply.

Beyond that, if you have something you're specifically looking to do, it's best to just ask here, or in the Starbase UGC chat.

Uh. UH, I have a question to you guys from the starbaseugc, 'cause you guys are the "english foudnry wizzards" ^^ What do you think about our manual? We poor german feel a little bit ignored (no reaction or feedback).
I ask, 'cause I heared, that you want to do a manuel, too. And with our manual you could have a view how something like that could look.

drogyn1701 · April 2015

I honestly don't know if any of us over at SBUGC speak German. Now, if we could get someone to translate it into English, it could very well become the definitive Foundry document for all users, not just the German community. We definitely should have something like that as some authors don't like watching video tutorials, and our videos are a bit scattershot.

I have enough experience with Google translate and other automatic translators to know how limited their usefulness is, but it could be a start, then we'd need to have some of the experienced English-speaking Foundry authors edit the thing to make sure it gets put into "proper" English.

farnihr · April 2015

drogyn1701 wrote: »

I honestly don't know if any of us over at SBUGC speak German. Now, if we could get someone to translate it into English, it could very well become the definitive Foundry document for all users, not just the German community. We definitely should have something like that as some authors don't like watching video tutorials, and our videos are a bit scattershot.

I have enough experience with Google translate and other automatic translators to know how limited their usefulness is, but it could be a start, then we'd need to have some of the experienced English-speaking Foundry authors edit the thing to make sure it gets put into "proper" English.

Yeah, that are my thoughts too. The problem is here the same, most of us can speak and write a little bit english, but it's not enough to translate 470 pages.

But with the "first google, then correct by a experienced english-speaking" it could work. But there must be at least one guy to the that (the manual was written by one guy too, so I think, one alone could do this)...

Any volunteers?

drogyn1701 · April 2015

Maybe we can "crowd source" it. Put it through a translator, then past the whole thing into a Google Doc that we can all edit.

lorne12 · April 2015

farnihr wrote: »

Yeah, that are my thoughts too. The problem is here the same, most of us can speak and write a little bit english, but it's not enough to translate 470 pages.

Oh yes, man.

I have no problems with understanding English. But writing... :rolleyes:

markhawkman · April 2015

I know a little german, so I could try it I guess.

primar13 · April 2015

One of my Favorite Tutorial series is this one.

I go back to it everytime I build a map... Mostly, cause I can't remember the numbers

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=458781

gigaman123 · April 2015

farnihr wrote: »

Yeah, that are my thoughts too. The problem is here the same, most of us can speak and write a little bit english, but it's not enough to translate 470 pages.

But with the "first google, then correct by a experienced english-speaking" it could work. But there must be at least one guy to the that (the manual was written by one guy too, so I think, one alone could do this)...

Any volunteers?

I may possibly be able to do it on my spare time. I am a native English speaker, so there shouldn't be too much difficulties. However, school requires the, majority of my attention.

farnihr · April 2015

gigaman123 wrote: »

I may possibly be able to do it on my spare time. I am a native English speaker, so there shouldn't be too much difficulties. However, school requires the, majority of my attention.

Cool, I wish good work and take the time, you need. School is more important

johnnysnowball · April 2015

Ok i ran a bit of it through google translate and if someone did the whole thing would it be worth it? Would it require so much editing it may as well be written from scratch?

This point is more important than all the rest together! The Foundry sometimes behaves a bit

"Unruly". When loading Maps, problems with the server or it can crash bugs

the whole program come. Although this happens very rarely and there is also a

automatic recovery when you leave the foundry without saving, but it

should not rely blindly you look. So, if an important part of their own mission

has been completed, should definitely be saved. The same applies before significant

Changes to a mission carried out in which it may come to problems

could. If necessary you can simply leave the Foundry and the last save

continue the mission.

7. The second map (on the planet)

The Klingons must naturally be repulsed not only in space but also on

the planet. For this you need another card. Clicking on

leads to the known menu to select a new map:

In field (1), the card name must be entered again. Field (2) has three options:

"Space", "outdoor" and "indoor". The search screen (4) also enables a particular map

find quickly or all of the cards with a specific name element (eg "desert") to list

Space maps should already be known now. The counterpart to this is the "Ground Maps", the

strictly speaking, does not exist. There are only "indoor" and "outdoor" maps. Both have many

Similarities: There are essentially the same objects and NPCs available and the

Operation is almost identical. Unlike Space maps, on which the player in its

Spacecraft is on its way, he controls on indoor and outdoor maps but his captain.

The important difference between indoor and outdoor maps is that outdoor maps a

Represent landscape or city under the open sky. However, Indoor Maps consist of rooms,

which represent the interior of a cave, a building, a station or a ship. For the

Players it is basically impossible to leave these rooms. Also, the author can also

add new rooms.

It would also involve screencapturing all the same images in english versions and placing them relative to the text. LOTS of images.

ALSO, need to know what a 'card' is, as it appears everywhere.

Could do with 20 people working on 22 pages each, with one editor working it all together.

thegreendragoon1 · April 2015

So I tried converting and running the manual through Google Translate, and unfortunately, it choked on its massive size. To be run through, it's going to have to be broken into small chunks.

johnnysnowball · April 2015

thegreendragoon1 wrote: »

So I tried converting and running the manual through Google Translate, and unfortunately, it choked on its massive size. To be run through, it's going to have to be broken into small chunks.

Yes i did up to part 7 a little at a time. If a person only had 22 pages to do rather than the entire thing it would be easier to remove all the false spaces that split sentences up in order to get a more accurate translation.

Which is why i would suggest at least 20 people doing a smaller number of pages each.

Can someone direct to an Advanced Foundry tutorial?

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