Video Series - Learn the basics of rails

[Dire Badger]

How come no one ever makes any text tutorials anymore? These videos are useless to me.

Being mostly deaf isn't THAT uncommon.

 

[Megacrafter127]

How come no one ever makes any text tutorials anymore? These videos are useless to me.

Being mostly deaf isn't THAT uncommon.

Not only that, but not everyone has the time to rewatch an entire video for forgetting a detail, a text-tutorial allows a quick&easy search.

 

[Nauvran]

How come no one ever makes any text tutorials anymore? These videos are useless to me.

Being mostly deaf isn't THAT uncommon.

Not only that, but not everyone has the time to rewatch an entire video for forgetting a detail, a text-tutorial allows a quick&easy search.

I would suggest a mix of pictures and text, sometimes it can be hard to explain and/or understand text based tutorials, pictures usually helps a lot,

 

[Dire Badger]

I agree. but it's too hard, I guess.

 

[Bench]

How come no one ever makes any text tutorials anymore? These videos are useless to me.

Being mostly deaf isn't THAT uncommon.

I've started going through adding closed-captions to all the tutorials videos, starting with the rail tutorial videos. This has the added benefit of YouTube having integrated translating for subtitles for other languages, though I'm working with a couple people to also translate the tutorials into the languages of some of our larger Starmade communities as well.

 

[Dire Badger]

outstanding, thank you.

 

[Bench]

Whole heap of new ones.... well some old, some new...

 

[Laflamme]

An awesome use for the shoot rail is escape bods and torpedoes.

 

[StormWing0]

An awesome use for the shoot rail is escape bods and torpedoes.

:P In my case it helps in making a warhead carpet bomber.

 

[Bench]

For those who still might need a hand

 

[Bench]

The second half of the above pickup rails tutorial

 

[Lone_Puppy]

Lol, your detecting pickup ships is so familiar!

 

[KiloZulu]

I've always enjoyed your tutorials, Bench. You've really upped the production level over time and become quite good at making the ideas easy to follow. In your most recent tutorial, I would say that area triggers have always felt a bit sketchy to me, so I look forward to the new detection block you hinted at.

I don't feel like there's been enough done to explain the applications of the pickup rail blocks. It seems like there's more nuance to them than I've seen discussed, anyway. I remember watching someone's ship build a couple of months ago where they had multiple drones launching from and recovering to a single rail, all neat and orderly. Jaw dropping, and I still have no clue how they manage it.

 

[Malacodor]

I would say that area triggers have always felt a bit sketchy to me, so I look forward to the new detection block you hinted at.

Will there be a new detection block? Or is it just fixing of the bug with docked entities not being detected?

 

[Scypio]

I remember watching someone's ship build a couple of months ago where they had multiple drones launching from and recovering to a single rail, all neat and orderly. Jaw dropping, and I still have no clue how they manage it.

That isn't that hard. Just long and boring to do it.

 

[Bench]

With some new functionality out, it's time to refit what we just built, hahaha...