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Aprus, Behind the Scenes - Tutorials, Tips, Tricks and Discussion
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Aprus - The Rise of a Nation Behind the Scenes Tutorials, Tips, Tricks and Discussion Hello Simtropolians! I've created this topic over here at the Forums CJ section as a companion topic to my Aprus - The Rise of a Nation CJ, which you'll find over at the CJ Section of the site. This topic will be about sharing my limited knowledge and my "creative process" with you all, while learning a few things along the way myself. It's amazing how much more you learn when trying to teach others. I'll also be posting images of my progression and "behind the scenes" work for the main CJ over here. To get started I've made a list of tutorial types for you to pick from. If you would be so kind to participate in the Tutorials Poll at the top, I would greatly appreciate it! Tutorial Poll Details Video Fly-over Lesson: Capture, Edit, Encode and Upload high quality game footage. Description: In this tutorial I'll show you how I make my fly-over videos. I'll be showing how to download, install and configure FFSplit for high quality screen recording, how to convert/compress videos for smaller sizes and finally, for those of you who own Adobe Aftereffects, I'll be showing you how to do some basic compositing, editing, basic animations, and rendering. Difficulty: Intermediate/Advanced. Time to make: Longish. Image Maps Lesson: Create a cool image map with multiple click-able areas in the same image, useful for maps, city overview with direct links to each area, and much more. Description: In this short tutorial I'll be showing you how to easily create HTML5 Image Maps using on-line tools, and how to configure them for use in your CJs. Difficulty: Beginner/Intermediate. Time to make: Very quick. Photoshop Tips and Tricks Lesson: Where I'll share my knowledge of Photoshop. Description: In this tutorial I'd basically just share with you my knowledge of photoshop, and how I do most of my image editing. Difficulty: Intermediate/Advanced. Time to make: Medium. Formatting ST posts Lesson: How I format and create the layout for my journal entries. Description: A tutorial on an easy way to standardize your Journal layouts and formatting using HTML5 and CSS. Difficulty: Beginner/Intermediate. Time to make: Medium/Long. Embedding Audio and Video Lesson: Learn how to correctly embed Youtube videos, audio streams and/or songs into your journal entries(or anywhere else). Description: Quick tut on how to properly embed videos with the right resolution and other parameters. You'll also learn how to add audio streams or single songs to your entries. Difficulty: Beginner/Intermediate. Time to make: Fast. These are the tutorials I could think of off the top of my head, by all means, if you have any other ideas please let me know in the comments below! I know many of you already know how to do all this, and even better than me. Still, this is aimed at those who DON'T, or those who would like to learn a few more things. As mentioned above, my real aim is to learn together, and have an incentive to better myself and learn new skills(such as making tutorials) and share all with you guys. I certainly am no expert at any of these things and it is never my intention to patronize or offend anyone. Corrections and criticism is very much welcomed, as long as it is in a respectful and civilized manner. Also, if you have a tutorial related to CJ'ing that you'd like to publish here, that would be sweet. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful time!
