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New Farcry Video

As promised I released another Farcry video. This is a "beginner's guide to upgrading Farcry" (from a previous version). The short video shows how simple and quick upgrading Farcry can be.

A special thanks to all the people who helped me test the video before release.

---- On a side note: I have been asked by one individual if I could make the Videos viewable for Mac OS X users. The video codec currently used is not supported by MacOS X's Media Player 9.

I have made a second version of the last two videos using an older video codec, however the video quality is noticably different (at least to me. Some say its not too bad). If you are interested in a copy let me know and I'll set you up with one. I may put copies of them on the website as well, but it will require some CF editing (time I don't have at the moment :).


Some stuff in the works

I've had so many great responses from people about the Farcry video tutorials. I even saw a post about the tutorials on Blog in Black. Thanks for all the great emails.

Believe it or not these do take a lot more work and time than I make them seem. I've already started work on two new ones. Unfortunately I've developed a cough that I just can't seem to shake :). So as soon as I am well enough I promise to get some more videos up soon (trust me, you wouldn't want to hear my voice today :) ).

I want to get some of the beginner guides out of the way first, however I already have some advanced tutorials in mind. There seems to be a lot of requests for help on dynamic menus and custom types. Although custom types are covered somewhat in the Farcry documentation in the "How-To" section I'd still like to cover a couple things (as well as some undocumented features about extending types). As for making a tutorial about dynamic menus... I'm thinking about making a section for for that. Perhaps a few tutorials about making dynamic menus since there are so many ways for different situations (and different menu layout). Because I have been doing a lot of work with Web Standards lately I may even ask people like Ben Bishop for assistance and ideas.

You wont likely see any advanced tutorials out before the new year, but hopefully a few beginners guides. In the meantime if anyone has any suggestions for a video tutorial that you feel will benefit the masses go ahead and give me an email or reply a comment here. Also if anyone would like to be on a list of testers for future videos let me know. If I make more detailed videos than what already exists I should probably have videos tested for errors first :).


Two Farcry Video Tutorials Released

I released two Farcry video tutorials aimed at beginners. There have been so many new-comers to Farcry that complain about the non-existence of beginner guides.

Although these video tutorials are no perfect all-in-one solution, they are definitely a step in the right direction.

If people find them useful it is likely I will make more (still aimed at beginners). I would have no problem making advanced tutorials; however I'd prefer to get some beginner guides out of the way first to help the new-comers.


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