Greetings from... Venus!

[Jheuloh]

After seeing the link to this place in the signature of 'HeyYou' in the official BGS forums, I decided to register here as a student, seeing that currently all I can really do is create the most simple of things; and wont have an enjoyable time advancing if I continue a trial and error based style of learning.

Anyways, hello.

Modding goals; learning to create fully developed NPCs or creatures in nearly every way, which essentially equates to requiring knowledge for (I'll briefly detail my expertise)-

Modeling (weakest area, can't even use the UI, then again I'm using the outlandish blender.)

Scripting (Only able to make 1 'passive' scripts, i.e. Begin Gamemode SetIgnoreFriendlyHits.)

Texturing (Limited to simple recolors, even if they're pretty.)

Audio (Yet to try voice acting, limited to dinosaur/dragon like creatures when designing sounds, only because I can distort my voice by reducing the pitch of the recording by 76%.)

About myself; 9th grader in high school, age 14, so I'm most likely relatively young compared to everyone else here, but that's merely aesthetic detail, asides from that I'll have a good amount of time to spare for this website and any projects that come up (especially as an independent study student. ) Although my abilities with Paint.NET and Gimp and the like is limited, my paper/pencil art is considerably more advanced.

Last thing to detail about myself;;

Currently, I write a novel (which I've been developing since 5th grade) though progress on my most recent story rework in 8th grade came to a depressing and unnerving halt (I've superficially overhauled it three times already). Progress will speed upward no matter what, however;; I reject the idea of completely destroying work that's been progressing for 3 years now.

That is myself, in a bag. This website looks nice, new, and shiny! I think I'll enjoy my experience here.

[WhoGuru]

Welcome to the Alliance!  Glad to have you!    You should came take a stroll in the Tavern.  We've a bit of an ongoing story in there.  Join in any time!

[Vereta]

HeyYou you've done it again! Welcome, my friend!

[DarkRider]

Welcome to the Alliance!  

CS Basics and Scripting classes are open. Others will be opening before you know it and you can always pose questions in teh Study Hall, we'll share whatever we know!

Cheers!  

[Jheuloh]

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Welcome to the Alliance!  Glad to have you!    You should came take a stroll in the Tavern.  We've a bit of an ongoing story in there.  Join in any time!

So essentially forum roleplay exists here as well? I could feel at home here then, heh.

[DaMage]

hey! another teenager.

always good to have some of us around. In almost 16, and in Year 11 at high school.

and trust me trail and error is the best way to learn modding in my opinion. if you get an interesting in a certain part of moddign, stick with it and develop that skill a bit. dont try to leanr all the branches at once.

[Jheuloh]

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hey! another teenager. always good to have some of us around. In almost 16, and in Year 11 at high school.and trust me trail and error is the best way to learn modding in my opinion. if you get an interesting in a certain part of moddign, stick with it and develop that skill a bit. dont try to leanr all the branches at once.

My sort of modding is definitely going to be companions and other NPCs, I could never play OB on an enjoyable level without a companion of any sort.  

[Vereta]

I'm also a mod learning teenager, a bit of a lazy one, though. This place is a lot of fun and the Tavern just makes it better. It's great just reading through the threads, which you probably should do before posting. It'd be a lot easier to portray or characters.

[_echo]

Welcome.

Interested in Blender, take a look at my video tutorials.

http://www.tesnexus....le.php?id=19303

[Vereta]

Echo, you nerd! Stop being better then me at modelling!  -Cries in a corner-

[Jheuloh]

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a bit of a lazy one

And I tend to over-focus on one specific thing.

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Interested in Blender, take a look at my video tutorials.

Your videos cover the terminology and UI right?

[Vereta]

Indeed they do. I've seen them. They is one video on that specific topic.

[_echo]

I think I did a horrible job on that one... im gunna remake it... eventually...

[Jheuloh]

In general the Basic Controls video feels as if the instructions were made on the spot.

I did, however, make an origami model after I heard instructions for vertex editing though.

[StryderOfOblivion]

Welcome! I would love to hear what you are intrested in learning next for my CS class. Trying to figure out what to do for the next Class

I would love to read your novel! If you are righting in a Word Document or somethin' you can e-mail it to me or give me some other way of reading it! I don't have anything to read right now  

Have a nice stay!

[Jheuloh]

It is a Microsoft Word Document, and emailable.

But, I have a website for the sake of having a story that blokes out there can critique or enjoy and so on. (Very un polished site, been left alone for a while, but progress is being done, so it's going to look better.)

'Race of the dragons'.com is the address for it. Added it as my homepage as well.

[StryderOfOblivion]

Sounds good! I'll go check it out now!