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Re: God School: Revival??

Post by thinkslogically » Fri Mar 15, 2013 4:34 am

Cool stuff, and that's ok but this lesson set should get you used to using GIMP which has a lot better tools for drawing in it (that will make your life MUCH easier if you stick with it)

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Re: God School: Revival??

Post by M0rtimer » Fri Mar 15, 2013 5:29 am

Guess I'll have to get to work on a GIMP making gif images tutorial... :P

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Re: God School: Revival??

Post by LAYF » Fri Mar 15, 2013 9:34 am

Damn why am I so impatient I have a hard time waiting for this thing, I look forward to it a lot
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Post by thinkslogically » Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:27 am

hahaha! Glad you're looking forward to it :)

One of the reason I'm delaying a bit though (aside from having loads of work to do on the lessons) is because I'm going to sea again in April. It's only for a couple of weeks, but I'll not be back until the 29th and during that time I'll have very limited access to the web. Now, I'd be happy for pass the completed lessons on to someone else to oversee them while I'm away if there's a really strong desire to get going, but I'd quite like to participate in all the discussions and stuff too so I'd personally prefer to hold off until I'm back...

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Re: God School: Revival??

Post by askstoomuch » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:16 am

hey guys, I'm super busy and not sure If can hold the deadlines, but I would like to learn some stuff, is there place left for me to sign up? ....
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Post by thinkslogically » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:18 am

Asks, were a few weeks away from starting yet, we're still just planning n pulling it all together so no rush :-)

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Post by askstoomuch » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:23 am

oh so I'm not late that late, but I will be busy for most of this year so, yeah could I join and miss like half of all the updates if I'm to busy ? :|
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Post by LooksAndSmiles » Fri Mar 15, 2013 12:55 pm

I think the lessons will eventually go into the Resources thread, and an optional thread will start in the games subsection, where you can join and do lessons as you wish. So there won't really be a time pressure on anyone who wants to play, it's more on the side of the ones who are holding a lesson.
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Post by thinkslogically » Fri Mar 15, 2013 1:44 pm

Yup, pretty much. Saying that, it's going to be a lot more fun if as many people as possible take part while we run it cos you'll be able to bounce a load of ideas off each other which was the cool thing about it all last time around :)

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Post by thinkslogically » Thu Mar 28, 2013 2:25 pm

Okies. Lesson 4 is more or less done. Now to figure out what to put in Lesson 2...

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Post by LAYF » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:17 am

Just gonna ping this to keep intrest...
What lessons do you still need writers for? or do you have what you need?
(I know I'm one behind, but theres a loooong time till my tuts)
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Post by thinkslogically » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:37 am

I think we've got writers for most of them now, but the majority of the first ones need updating (by me), which is why it's taking so long (sorry) ...

I have a plan in place though so it's just a case of getting a few hours here and there to write it up. I'll keep you posted on how it all goes.

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Re: God School: Revival??

Post by thinkslogically » Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:48 am

Woot! Ok, it's update time!

I've got lessons one, two and four into a finalised state and a story plan for the rest of the assignments! Hoping to make a decent dent in the last lessons while I'm at sea (in between trawling and writing a PhD!) so I'll keep you posted, but hopefully we're not a million miles away from a start date. Still be a few weeks, but we're definitely getting there!

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Post by lingrem » Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:51 am

I (slowly) started working on mine for city-building really.
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Re: God School: Revival??

Post by thinkslogically » Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:55 am

Cool stuff :) Looking forward to getting this going and seeing what you guys have come up with!

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Post by M0rtimer » Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:56 am

Yay! :)

*Meanwhile on the make a animated gif lesson department*

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Post by LAYF » Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:57 am

You are far frome the only one Thinks :)
Far from....

Maybe I should make the 2nd part of my tut... but its suchs a loooong time in the future....

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Re: God School: Revival??

Post by gamecreator » Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:18 am

Good job M0rt, you made animated gif. Now there is only tutorial left to do.

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Post by M0rtimer » Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:23 am

It will be done in GIMP, no? I could easily look up how it works in Photoshop. It probably even has a neat technique for it or something. :P :)

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Re: God School: Revival??

Post by thinkslogically » Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:26 am

Yeah, you've got the animation toolbox in Photoshop which is all right for animating stuff (funnily enough), but we need to do all this in Gimp.

On the plus side, Google has a LOT of info on how to make them :)

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Post by M0rtimer » Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:27 am

Yeah, did it in GIMP before and know how it works...(I think) So should be easy enough. :)

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Re: God School: Revival??

Post by thinkslogically » Sun May 05, 2013 1:18 pm

Good evening all!

I've had quite a productive day on this stuff today and I think I'm done with the lessons I was meant to be writing. I still need to write up the assignment parts, but the bulk of the work is done so they shouldn't take too long to rattle through.

So, long story short, I think we're almost ready to start! If I was to open sign-ups in about a week or so, would that suit everyone else who's running lessons? It's still a decent way into the future but it will probably swing round pretty quick once we get going.

I'm planning on running one lesson per week to give everyone lots of time to complete the assignments etc. so that should give you an idea of the timescale we're talking about. Any issues just give me a shout :)

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Post by M0rtimer » Sun May 05, 2013 1:32 pm

I'd be fine with that. I still haven't had the chance or time to look at what I promised I'd prepare, but it'd probably be at least a month or two before we arrive at that point, at which point I should have vacation and plenty of time to work on it.

Also, due to me having to do so for school, I discovered photoshop actually has some really good functionalities considering the creations of gifs! So I'd probably do a quick addendum on that, besides gimp.

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Re: God School: Revival??

Post by thinkslogically » Sun May 05, 2013 1:36 pm

Yeah, I like Photoshop a lot more than GIMP but it has the disadvantage of not being free.... An addendum would be great though - the more options the better.

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Re: God School: Revival??

Post by LAYF » Sun May 05, 2013 2:10 pm

Yea, Me two... my lesson are a loooooong way in the future... so....
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