Modding Tutorial Website @ 60%

[PotentPotables]

Okay, I'm sure some of ya know by now that I learned myself some HTML and have been working on a Website for Modding Tutorials. The Site works on 2 Frames, left for TOC and right for Page viewing.

As of right now, I am finished with everything but the VRS portion of the Site. I'm posting this now because I'd like to get a good host for it.

Topics Covered:

Getting Started

Knowledge is Power

ChangeTex v0.03


All About ChangeTex

Model Viewer v2.21


Introduction
Exporting .DAT Files
Importing .DAT Files

POLUtils v0.8.3


All About Most of POLUtils

Metasequoia v2.3.4


Introduction
UV Remapping Introduction
UV Remapping
Reshaping Models

VRS v1.0


Introduction
Importing .DAT Information
Exporting .DAT Information
Adding New Material
Manipulating Vertices
Creating Primitives
Combining Models
Moving Skeletal Objects
Setting Skeletal Weights
Changing/Creating Movement

Graphics Converter v3.0


Introduction
Converting Textures
Alpha Mapping





At this time :

Total File size = 12MB, but with VRS completed it should jump up to around 25 or 30.
Web Pages = 101KB
Pics = 11.8MB
CSS = 752Bt



Any of you hi-speeds wanna host this, please let me know. That way, I can upload what I have already, change the File Paths, and use the new filepaths while I write the VRS Tutorials.



If you have an interest in Hosting it and want an actual preview of the Site, I can .zip the files and put them up for DL, just let me know. Only thing is, you'll need to make a G:\ Drive to view them. Can be done by burning the files to a CD-r or DVD-r and then changing the Drive Letter.

[Balfree]

why not use the article section right here? or a blog?

[PotentPotables]

Will the articles section support HTML and Frames? I kinda wanted to keep the formatting I had going. Open website, TOC nav on left, read your info on the right, that sort of thing.

I could submit the individual pages but thenit would lose some of teachers flow and might be slightly more confusing due to the way it's been written and laid out.

As far as a Blog goes, same questions as above. I've never done anything with Blogs so I wouldn't know.

[neighbortaru]

it'll most like support html, but not frames (teh evil). Have to spoken to kilandor and see if he has a place on his site for this? it would only seem appropriate :)

[PotentPotables]

I talked to him before and Im sure he'll read this next time he gets on. After it's all done I'll give it up to him, but I also did some searching and I'm going to put it up on a free 50megs account for now and then get an Ad-Free account on payday. That way, I know when it's up or down and don't have to worry about someone else getting a bad taste in their mouth and dropping it or something.

Yeah, and I know Frames are old-school, but it was the best I could come up with without running myself through Java or dHTML Tutorials.

Site can be seen as I progress at www.grumpyrarab.ffximc.com (http://www.grumpyrarab.ffximc.com)

*edit*

Added website to .DAT Links Sticky. Just so ya know it's there if the Guns start blazin' again...

[Medalink]

If you wanna buy a domain I can host it for you on my server. Domains only cost around US $8.00 a year. I have a dedicated server that I can host it on,

I also can help ya with HTML or whatever you need, I am a programmer and can shed light on anything you might need.

Medalink

[Balfree]

Exceptional work PPT.

[Kensai-cel]

Dude, honestly, your website kicks ass, it's pretty much telling me my problem. Only one little problem, and I know it's not done, but maybe you can tell me...

Simple Reminders

* Above all, when you're working on a center Vertex, lock the X axis. This prevents the "spreading" of the Model when imported back into Model Viewer.

This just happened to me, I edited a model, saved it then imported it to the model viewer, and the polygons shot out in every direction. How exactly do you lock the X axis?

EDIT: nvm... :vent: freaking crap, I kept reading some more and about 80% of the damn tools on metasequoia apparently corrupt the model like you said. So wtf really is the point.. the only thing I can do is just stretch shit. I'll definetely stick to texturing now.

[Kilandor]

Potent i'll host it for you i'll PM you and give you FTP details so you can directly access and modify it youself. As needed. Also same if you wanted to get your own domain I could set it up also easily.

Edit-
PM sent with details.

[PotentPotables]

Updated links to site.

Thank Kilandor for the free space.

[Imkindalost]

Nice work PP i bookmarked your site ^^; i like the simple layout btw, none of that bs to scroll past, straight forward and easy to use just the way i like :)

Some of this new stuff that people use when making sites isnt too friendly for us older people :P the whole blog scene confuses the hell out of me, myspace i cant figure out lol... i gave up on my myspace

[Mellowy]

Checking out the site and...on meta part 2 you have:

Normalize - Makes everything normal again? Just guessing.

And from the name it sounds more like you should guess on it setting the lenght of a vector to 1. Since that is what it means in all my math courses. Best is probably to try and use it though >_>

Also the first one with introduction gave a lot of X images.


Looking forward to the VRS part.

[PotentPotables]

Checking out the site and...on meta part 2 you have:
Normalize - Makes everything normal again? Just guessing.
And from the name it sounds more like you should guess on it setting the lenght of a vector to 1. Since that is what it means in all my math courses. Best is probably to try and use it though >_>
Stuff is designated like that on the tutorial because I've tried using the tool and it seems to do nothing. It doesn't do anything directly on the screen, nor does it mess with import/export at all.

Also the first one with introduction gave a lot of X images.Looking forward to the VRS part.

Might have been because I was still loading FTPing the site. It should be good now, minus the VRS links, since I'm working on themn as I type.

*edit* nope, just checked and somethings wrong with those specific Pics. I don't know what it is since the code worked fine reading from local and Ive uploaded the .JPG's just fine. I'll figure it out, though.*endedit*

*re-edit*Fixed it. apparaently I forgot after a batch conversion to change my Uppercase File Extensions to Lowercase File Extensions and that creates a problem. Thought only Java had that issue, ot HTML. Regardless, it's fixed after alot of headaches and troubleshooting from a neweb perspective.*endre-edit*

Just need a break sometimes...

And thanks all for the positive feedback from everyone. I knew when I read the HTML Stuff that I was working with outdated codes, but I really didn't feel like learning Java or dHTML or whatever is the rage amongst designers now.

[PotentPotables]

For those that know absolutely nothing about VRS or cannot even get it opened, I have finished the Intro portion of VRS on my site.

Hope you enjoy.

After a short break, I'll be going back to write some more of the rest.

[dabadking]

sweet ^^ take your time, glad your still going on it :) lots of things I want to learn with VRS, but I'm slowly getting there with everyones tutorials heheh.

[PotentPotables]

VRS Importing done.

VRS Exporting done.

[PotentPotables]

VRS Vertex Manipulation done.

[PotentPotables]

VRS Model Combining done.


I'm tired...

[PotentPotables]

VRS Adding Primitives done.

Also, for those concerned about it, I will be changing the size of the Tutorial pics when I finish with the VRS tutorials completely. I know that they are a little bigwhen viewed normally, so I'll be doing resizing once I ahve a full folder of pics to work with.

Blame that on my beautifully ginormous LCD monitors.

After I finish with the VRS toots, I will also be adding a "links" page. This way I can start to make this site into the definitive source for Modding Help, rather than bits and pieces being scattered to the winds.

Please fellow adventurous modders, if you know of a better way to do things I've stated or have another tutorial you'd like to add, please let me know. Just send me an email or PM letting me know what I should add or change and I'll get to it as soon as life allows.

[Nyasho]

the images on your website dont show up for me :S i think my computer has issues though

[PotentPotables]

Yeah, should be on your end cuz they work fine for mine and at work.

Also :

VRS Adding New Material done.

[Kilandor]

If your AV/Firewall/Popup blocker or anythign else liek that blocks sending Referrer information Then you won't see images.

[Nyasho]

ahh that would be it, i know i have at least 2/3 of those things up XD

[dabadking]

sweet! Glad your getting it done potent :) i'll be needing it soon lol

[PotentPotables]

VRS Understanding Skeltons done.

Making beer run before I finish the LAST AND FINAL TUTORIAL...

That is, until I get access to and learn how to change Motions. Then I'll be adding a few more I guess.

[PotentPotables]

I'm done. Just added the last VRS tutorial that I can do at the moment.

I'm going to be adding more stuff to enhance the site itself, like a links page and probably some kind of guestbook thing, but that's all aesthetics.

Every single tutorial is written and I resized the huge pics to only slightly-huge pics.

As I asked before, please let know if there is something that I am missing that should be on the Website or if there is something that I do the hard way.

[Mellowy]

Wonderful.

I'll make sure to check by soon.

[Nicolette]

404'd

Not Found

The requested URL / was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Apache/1.3.34 Server at grumpyrarab.ffximc.com Port 80

[PotentPotables]

Yeah, Kilandor's in the process of porting the main site from one server to another, so It might be a day or two.

It's there, though...somewhere...and if the URL changes afterwards, I'll let you guys know.

But, here's that case-in-point I was talkin about Mods....

[PotentPotables]

All fixed and better.