RF book

Robin · Post by **Robin** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:26 pm

On the docs session you can download the RF book but I am a beginner in RF and that book seems pretty old so maybe someone can update it, so noobs like me understand it better. Please! I really wanna learn how to make games.

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:09 am

I currently am working on updating but It's not an easy process even once I get some done. It will take a lot of debuging.

Robin · Post by **Robin** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:34 am

Thanks. Keep on working.

Robin · Post by **Robin** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:30 am

jonas wrote:I currently am working on updating but It's not an easy process even once I get some done. It will take a lot of debuging.

How is it going? Finished soon? I wanna learn RF now without having to search the whole day for a button that according to the book should be on a place where it ain't.

Muzzer · Post by **Muzzer** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:28 pm

Best bet is to read some tutorials and play around with the level editors.

Some old tuts I did a while ago...

http://geocities.com/bruise_pristine2003/tutorials.htm

Sorry about the Geocities site... never again

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:58 am

Yea because I haven't had time to work on that for a while. That book should help you on the design of a game, the new capabilities of rf I don't even know how to use them all yet. But I will work on it.

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:55 pm

What exactly do you want in this book? Do you want it to show you by example how to make a game with rf like pickles book or just show how to use each of the features?

Robin · Post by **Robin** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:37 pm

jonas wrote:What exactly do you want in this book? Do you want it to show you by example how to make a game with rf like pickles book or just show how to use each of the features?

Both would be nice, but the thing that I think is the most important is that you just update the book. You don't have to write about new feutures the important is that you make corrections. Lets say that I am going to do one thing according to that book and then I can't find it, though it stands clearly where it is in the book but it have been moved so you have to go search for it yourself.

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:50 am

I'm not sure I understand what your saying in this sentence.

Lets say that I am going to do one thing according to that book and then I can't find it, though it stands clearly where it is in the book but it have been moved so you have to go search for it yourself.

It would almost be easier to start over with the realityfactory book than to rewrite it. Onless I was to use the same game for the example and that was pickles game.

@everyone: Any Ideas for a real simple game I could make that would show all the feature's? Something different than the current rf demo.

Robin · Post by **Robin** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:29 pm

jonas wrote:I'm not sure I understand what your saying in this sentence.
Lets say that I am going to do one thing according to that book and then I can't find it, though it stands clearly where it is in the book but it have been moved so you have to go search for it yourself.

Ok, lets try again. I am a totally n00b and wanna use the book cause that's a tutorial on how to make a complete game. But it seems that the book isn't very new so RF have been updated and some buttons have been moved. And for a total noob it's pretty hard to know where to search. So maybe you could update the book so it say the right place to look at for the buttons.

Robin · Post by **Robin** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:30 pm

jonas wrote:I'm not sure I understand what your saying in this sentence.
Lets say that I am going to do one thing according to that book and then I can't find it, though it stands clearly where it is in the book but it have been moved so you have to go search for it yourself.

Ok, lets try again. I am a totally n00b and wanna use the book cause that's a tutorial on how to make a complete game. But it seems that the book isn't very new so RF have been updated and some buttons have been moved. And for a total noob it's pretty hard to know where to search. So maybe you could update the book so it say the right place to look at for the buttons.[/quote]

SithMaster · Post by **SithMaster** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:51 am

maybe use a FPS (fav genre) for the book. though it has been done before i think its the simplest for a beginner to make.

though i understand what Robin is saying that the gui has changed so the book has some inconsistencies like drop down menus and the like.

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:56 am

ah ok! I'll see what I can come up with!

Robin · Post by **Robin** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:06 pm

I just tried to find a wikibook but I couldn't find any. So why aren't there any? It would be great if there would be one. Cause everyone can add something to a wikibook so it would not be a one-man-job.

MakerOfGames · Post by **MakerOfGames** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:17 pm

A wikibook sounds like a great idea for RF. That would make it very easy for everyone to know how to do the advanced effects only the long time users, or fast learners, know how to do.

Reality Factory

RF book

The upcoming wiki book about RF should it be

RF book