New stride (video) tutorial ideas

[Aggror]

Hi everyone,

I am looking into new ideas for (video) tutorials. Both with and without sample projects.

Short tutorials
These tutorials would stand on their own without perse being part of a group of videos or sample project.

• Font loading
• Community toolkit intro
• Fullscreen and other resolutions
• Lighting
• Post-processing/render pipeline customization
• Render targets
• Camera layers
• Unit testing
• Physics constraints

Tutorial sets
This would a tutorial playlist covering a larger topic

• 2D
  • 2d Lighting/shadows
  • sprite animations
  • tilemaps
  • spritesheets
• Shaders and SDSL
  • Diffuse
  • Specular
  • Texturing (I guess there's a feature to expose shader properties to the property grid)
  • Using time, sin(time) etc.
• 2d game?
  • Side scrolling: megaman style
  • Top down: Tank or Roguelike rpg
• 3d game?
  • Shooter?
  • Platformer?
• Renewing editor tutorials

[ultradevp]

how about a megamanx 3d side scroller its very simple and easy for both understanding the engine and for practice

[JoeAbiN]

Maybe make a series on rendering.
-Shaders and SDSL
-Lighting
-Post-processing/render pipeline customization

[Johnhersh]

I'm looking for anything 2D. I have a 2D game in Unity I'd love to port over. But I don't see anything in the docs about 2D at all. Especially lighting and shadows. But also sprite animations. Sprites. Tilemaps. All that stuff

[NicusorN5]

I suggest:

• shader tutorials
• how to use render targets, camera layers (etc)

[Aggror]

Can you elaborate on camera layers?

[Doprez]

My understanding on camera layers from the discord is they can be used for things like avoiding clipping one a FPS model when close to a wall. I would also love to see some videos on SDSL in general,

[BlueGrassSquirrel]

basic game elements for people just starting game dev with Stride. Things like health/xp bars. Money systems. importing and setting up animations. Timers and events.
various other "welcome to game dev" things, but using Stride. I feel like its another reason Unity gotten so popular.
I remember the YouTube tuts back in Unity 4 getting me into development and solidifying my choice of Engine.

[Aggror]

Thanks, @BlueGrassSquirrel, @NicusorN5, @ultradevp , @Johnhersh , @JoeAbiN.

I will update the topic with your suggestions.

[Wallaguiar]

Please make more simple videos in youtube, a 3D platform game for beginners, third person character, animations tree state machine controler in stride engine

[Wallaguiar]

The best way to popularize Stride Engine is through more YouTube videos

[GwinyaiBere]

we could have 5 YouTube channels covering different topics. Another way to popularize stride is by an asset store of some sort that provides an add-on marketplace.... That how the blender creates a means for blender users.

[Chimpchi]

Agreed, advertising is one thing, but if you want people to truly swap and stay, you need to show how much more convenient the engine is.

[GwinyaiBere]

Toon shader, cel shader, and basic animation blending.... also aim IK for a third person shooter aiming

[Chimpchi]

Animations, and audio would be nice to cover for the basics. Perhaps even showing how to trigger particles, audio, generic events, etc. through animation events.

[Aggror]

Animation and audio are already party of the intermediate video tutorials.

Can you elaborate on 'triggering' something? Pressing a key? Walking intro a collider? Those last 2 are already covered.

[rkira]

please make tutorials for android too.
i recently faced a lot of issue of for setting up android workload on stride.

[MCVenor]

I have suggestions for the an "Experts" Series:

• Using the GPU to create Voxel based Meshes. (This would include passing data to the GPU and back, in Unity this was done with the help of ComputeShaders, i dont know if stride has some equivalent thingy)
• Using the Results of those to "layer" them together
• Using both above to assign local space based textures

The total Result could be something like this:

[niltor]

Terrain Tutorial: how to make terrains.