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Paintball 2: The Game => Help and Support => Topic started by: What The____?(CheMiCaL) on October 10, 2011, 10:12:14 PM
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Hello Digital Paint: Paintball 2.0 community. I'm trying to give back to this community now, and I hope it helps!
As I see it, new players are hard to come by, but looking at all the accounts created I assume it's due to the lack of help available. I'm goinng to try and fix this, all help is welcomed and appreciated. I'll be honest, I can't map, I can't create models, I can't create textures, but what I can do is play this game. By making basic How-To's I can use my strengths to hopefully help the game. I'm going to create written how-to's and then turn them into video's on a generic youtube channel. Please do help in any way possible, whether it be giving advice or actually helping make videos or guides.
I will post my guides as I finish them, for your criticism and then hopefully turn them into their own threads, maybe even get them stickied if their good enough. I did them fast, so there is plenty of room for more detail! Please help!
DP-How-To youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/DPHowTo?feature=mhee
How to: Get on mIRC -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnHqBSIsDR8&feature=channel_video_title
How to: Get HR4 textures -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7_Iq_ZWe80&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
How to: Get Voice chat programs -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDNHYMPVnqU
How to: Make a Account -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUD9mIktNQE
How to: Make a Forums Account -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3tsOBAhmYg
How to: Make/Join a Clan -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om5RbLZ7wTc
What I'm working on:
How to: Trick Jumping
How to: Aim
How to: Make a map
How to: Choose settings
How to: Recon
If anyone has any more idea's on How-To's please feel free to inform me! Again, all help is greatly appreciated!!! I might not
be able to make videos for all of them (Since I'm not familiar with them all), but I'll do my best to get my youtube channel noticed and hopefully it becomes a resource for new players!
Another side project I am planning (which is on hold till i get unbanned obviously) is creating a training or practice squad
for new players. I have a few people willing to help with that, so even if I stay banned I'll do my best to help with it. I'll
be putting up a website and ventrilo server once it gets going to stay organized. I may also be putting up private servers which will be more for the practices then public match servers.
More information to come! And I'll update everytime I finish something!
Edit: I've made the chan on mirc :) /join #DPPractice
- CheMiCaL
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Ok so i did some more How-To's tell me what you think, and if the intro is ok for now. i'll make a better one later.
How to: Make a Account -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUD9mIktNQE
How to: Make a Forums Account -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3tsOBAhmYg
How to: Make/Join a Clan -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om5RbLZ7wTc
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Ok so i decided to stay up and make a new how to vid that consists of how to get Ventrilo, Teamspeak 3, and Mumble. i also went the extra mile on how to set-up your mic/headset/push to talk and some servers for Teamspeak3 and Ventrilo. any comments good or bad will be appreciated and any ideas for my next vids will be helpful. Thanks CheMiCaL.
How To get Voice chat programs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDNHYMPVnqU
Ventrilo servers
- Dplogin - Hostname: Dplogin.com Port: 3784
- i will buy mine later on :)
Teamspeak 3 servers
- CheMiCaL's - Chicago.Jestservers.com:7620
-[OTB]'s - otb-server.de:9987
- Team [X] - chicago.jestservers.com:7150
Mumble servers
- Unfortunately i don't know of any DP clan servers but if anyone does feel free to pm me them or just post them here and i'll put them up here.
STILL SAVED SPOT FOR FURTHER UPDATES
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1) Explain what you're doing while doing it, instead of: 'uhh so you go here, then here, then here'
2) It's easier to just copy the folder instead of copying every picture
3) Why is there like 3mins of nothing?
4) Guess you weren't lying when you said you really wanted back and were going to prove it. This may not be 'a lot' but it's a good start. Goodluck. Hope you get your bantime reduced to a deserved length.
EDIT: You just posted saying you did an IRC thing, explaining what you made a mistake on. After you work on a few and get used to it, (if you feel it's useful and people are noticing it), then you should go back and fix old ones to make them all good. Who knows, they may lead to tutorials on this website to help people!
EDITEDIT: You spelt paintball wrong in your mIRC video
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thanks. i'm trying to fix it. just remember i'm completely new to this stuff and open to ideas.
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Good job chemical if u need any help from me i m willing to help
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It's nice to see you actually meant what you said. Good work Chemical, just keep on going and maybe your contributions will get noticed? :D
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i will work on the other vids sometime this week. i really suck at doing this and i'm trying to learn how to edit and make montages asap. any help with teaching me is really really helpful.
EDIT: can anyone make like a Digital Paintball2 backround so i can pimp out my youtube chan. or if someone can teach me how to do it. i used to know how but i forgot. like the backround from this site is coll but id like the digital paint paintball2 heading to be everywhere. many thanks to who ever helps :D
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ok it has been brought to my attention that when i said i would be putting up private servers i ment I'd be buying match servers which are for our private practices. one person on mIRC told me this so i thought i would clear it up by saying it would be like a match server, not a home ran private server. i would actually be buying them possibly like i have in the past.
thanks joonas for bring this to my attention so i could clarify it for others that might be mistaken to.
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It doesn't matter how many licence plates you make, it still won't get you out of the jail.
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i don't understand the licence plate part. since when has that have to do anything with jail? lol never heard that saying.
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I'm pretty sure he's saying no matter how many tutorial videos you make it won't help you get unbanned.
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i know that but i don't get why he said licence plates for that saying.
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He was relating it to people making license plates in jail. If one person makes more than the others, he's not getting his sentence reduced because of it.
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ohhhhhhhhh. but they could get their sentence reduced on good behaviour.
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It doesn't matter how many licence plates you make, it still won't get you out of the jail.
This is the type of post that is so stupid. Who cares? That's your opinion, he's trying to help so support the topic instead of why you think he's doing it. Either way, he's doing it. And yes this COULD help him because all the bans were ARE getting relooked at. They are set at that length until Jitspoe sorts it out (distributors etc..) he's just not been motivated to look into it. Chem showing he cares and wants to help may get noticed, and if it's truly well done could help his case get looked at faster. Don't post when you don't know the circumstances.
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I don't see why anybody would motivate himself and waste his time to look over someones bans?
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maybe change the title and its good.
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I've been thinking of making some tutorials almost since I started DP but I'm always too lazy...
If there's anything I can help you with just let me know, if I have the time.
Loved the #DPPractice idea ;) Keep it up.
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yea change the title.
everyone is always saying what the game needs(including me), finally someone has started doing something. Maybe this will inspire people to take action :D
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I m sure that chemical will be heard of. As for me i m not even sure jits cares :O
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I m sure that chemical will be heard of. As for me i m not even sure jits cares :O
Come on guys, this is about Chemical helping the community, not his ban time.
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i tried to make my chan look better tell me what you think! http://www.youtube.com/user/DPHowTo?feature=mhee
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How to: Make a map
I'd prefer the following one, because it's almost impossible to put together the most important stuff in one video like "how to: my first map".
http://dplogin.com/forums/index.php?topic=15629.0
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If you are going to be including How-Tos on map making it would probably be a better idea to give it it's own section.
Create a map from start to finish but make a video for each step.
Example: DP How To - Make a Map 1 (What makes a good Paintball2 map)
DP How To - Make a Map 2 (Install BSP)
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DP How To - Make a Map 50 (upload final version)
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SuperMAn, I've been helping CheMiCaL with these (setting them up in text versions for him to make the videos, thats why im replying) and that's pretty much what we were going to do IF we went into detail. But since CheMiCaL doesn't know much at all about map-making (and I have limited knowledge) it was going to be pretty much Installing BSP - explaining a few key concepts to mapping, and explaining what it takes to make a good DP2 map.
The lack of our knowledge in the mapping department is why we want the community to help with this project, video-how-to's are far easier for beginners than written documents. If they are all put in 1 spot, it makes it easy for beginners to find them. (Whether it be CheMiCaL's videos, or somebody else who makes them better). Anyways, thanks for your advice though, for jumping how-to's they will be split up (since it's easier for viewers in my opinion too watch a 2--3min vid on what they want to see, rather than a 15min vid that they don't need most of it).
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If you really want to do this it would have to be planned out well before you start making videos, or else it will become a huge mess. Sit down with a couple knowledgeable map makers and create a list of everything you need to do to create a map from start to finish. Once that is complete you can decide which sections need their own videos and which can be included with others. Work with the mappers to ensure that you are getting key points across. Never know you might become great mappers after it is all over =)
I think this would be awesome to have for the DP community, but only if it is not done half-assed.
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DP How To - Make a Map 2 (Install BSP)
That will be a short video. Here is the Setup (ftp://otb-server.de/pub/BSP%20-%20Map%20Editor/BSP_setup.exe) and you only need to change the path to you paintball folder (in the file "pfad.txt"), if it is not in the default folder.
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I think this would be awesome to have for the DP community, but only if it is not done half-assed.
I agree 100% - but there's a difference between "done half-assed" and not being done well. Sometimes the person doing it, in this case CheMiCaL, may be doing his best, however he may not be the most knowledgeable person, making the video's not as good as they could be. (This is really the main reason I'm making text files of how-to's for him, so for now on he'll cover more info). There's always room for improvement, it just needs to start with somebody taking initiative.
If people watch CheMiCaL's videos he has up now, they should comment on what would make it better in this thread, so he can continue to improve them. What are they missing? Did it answer all possible questions? etc.. - My criticism to him (which i've told him) is the fact it's more: "watch and do" , he doesn't really explain what he's doing it while doing it (granted most things are self explanitory, but might as well be as clear as possible!).
EDIT: Terrorist, short videos are better. An installing BSP video would consist of showing where to find the file, download, and where to put it. Some people struggle a lot with downloading stuff, so having it seperate works better. I rather watch a 1 min video on what I need, than a 10min video trying to find that little part I need.
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Jamal: There is no difference. If he wants to do it well he needs to work with mappers. If he does his "best" but with no help from knowledgeable mappers I would call that half-assed because he did not put the effort in that was required to achieve the best possible result.
Many short videos > Few long videos
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These video's are quite helpful i have been playing this game almost like 4 years (estimate) and it was almost impossible for me to make a account for the forums and boom now newbies like me can make an forums account.
Good job chemical on the videos if you need any help send me a message on forums.
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it was almost impossible for me to make a account for the forums and boom now newbies like me can make an forums account.
Not trying to talk anyone down here, but people who have problems creating a forum account, will probably also have trouble finding those videos, if they won't get further promotion.
Keep up the good work Chemical, let's hope that one day we will have such a "how-to-section" on the frontpage, so every newbie can get his first questions answered.
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thanks :)
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**UPDATE**
Started on a How to for Aiming/curving bullets, Recon, and Choose settings. if anyone's got an idea of what i should add tell me. and if anyone want's to help me with these vid(already got a couple people) msg me on mIRC and i'll tell you what i need help with.
- CheMiCaL
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**UPDATE**
Started on a How to for Aiming/curving bullets, Recon, and Choose settings. if anyone's got an idea of what i should add tell me. and if anyone want's to help me with these vid(already got a couple people) msg me on mIRC and i'll tell you what i need help with.
- CheMiCaL
You honestly can't teach someone to aim, it's learned through practice and finding the settings and methods that suit you.
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Just teach them that they are shooting tiny little paintballs which have space in between them and not an uber death ray laser that never stops shooting.