by Quan-Time » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:49 am
I personally think it would be cool to have a "members only" video which would be free to download at your peril, linked in the members section.
Construction tech's for the bench plans, all the way thru to using it.
Sure i know how do modify cylinder heads in one aspect. Mine. From what ive read ive learnt to adapt what i think is correct, and what seems to work.
If there was some sort of guide, i think it would help much of the confusion for new players, and help confirm methods for long time users, or returning.
I have discussed this with Bruce a while ago. But i have had a few people ask me to port / do work on their head and they think because they know me, or have had a beer with me at a pub that im going to work for basically nothing.
Some people even get offended when you suggest that they spend some time building a bench and learning themselves. Thats why i thought some sort of instructional video would be quite useful.
I know that no one will, but check out the video
its just over 18mins long.. So you might want to let it load. Its an "instructional" video on how to play a game called "Quake 3".
I spent MANY hours learning how to exploit the physics of the game engine. Think of it like the movie "The Matrix". When Morpheus is explaining to Neo that agents are still bound by rules, some you can use to your advantage, others you can break.
For someone who has NEVER seen the game, let alone played it, from watching that whole movie completely through, you will have a fairly good understanding of how to move around quickly and use the games "exploits" to your advantage.
I made that movie by request for some people in the Quake3 community. I didn't upload that to google video, but my original version, in high quality (HD video) is still floating around. It got over 10,000 downloads last I heard.
My point is, if a simple video was made, even the most novice of people can get the video, and start learning. Once they have learnt some basics and experimented on their own, they usually get a greater sense of achievement.
On the Quake3 forum, 3 or 4 times a week people would ask "hey, i saw you move around fast, how do you do that" so you upload a simple demo (in-game recorded file, you can "watch" saved game files in quake3) and the community was flooded with "how do i do (insert something here)" forum posts. So i made this video for the community. It instantly cut down the "learning curve" for many gamers and happiness ensued.
Concidering my wife went to uni to do screen studies, she helped "direct" me and give me concepts. And i showed her the result and if she can learn from it, i guessed it was a winner. Either way, I was wondering if there is anything out there, if there isnt, what would be good to "fill the void" as it were.
Sorry for the long post.
