It's very rare I give someone a 10.
But you deserve it! This is by far THE GREATEST tutorial on Newgrounds. Your graphics are simply incredible. I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw it. Oh, and thanks A LOT for the masking tutorial. Masking confusedf the hell out of me. Also, thanks A TON for putting that scripted camera in. It's simply god-like. Seriously. Please, make more tutorials. This is great!
P.S. What was with the crashing plane?! It had me cracking up!
Thanks, I tried to make it visually pleasing and intellectually informative. I already plan to make another - just not immediately.
The crashing plane was completely random and pretty much pointless. The idea came when i was writing that section of the tutorial. Something about 'layer planes' sparked me to comment that 'no we're not going on an airplane'...
So initially I made the plane and just flew it by...
Then I thought... 'there aren't supposed to be any planes, and this might confuse people'... so I made it crash and burn, just to seal the deal.
Doing that plane is what sparked me to expand the scope of the buttons and extras. I figured 'well, that was fun... I'll make more!'.
Anyway, thanks for the compliments and the review!
Not many get this rating
Tutorials usually please me. But this one takes the cake so far. Great graphics... I'm so pumped about the little logo you used for my song, most people have no idea what shadwrun is, so you get big props for that. I like the other sound and song selections you used as well, very tasteful. This as interactive as it gets, so again perfect score. This bogs down slower machines, but it is well done. Using action script is a gift and you certainly have it! Thanks for using my song too! Keep up the amazing work.
-Tyler
Yeah I realize that about Shadowrun. In the 'fun with masking' easter egg I described it as a cult favorit RPG for a reason. It has a hardcore following, but most people never heard of it. The game kicked arse, though. I haven't seen many remixes from Shadowrun as a result.
The logo (in fact all of them) I drew freehand in flash without a visual aide. I drew Jake from memory (I think I got the glasses wrong, but oh well).
Actionscript gift?
All I did is buttons for moving around the tutorial and music... 0.0. Otherwise I'm AS inept. I find myself spending hours trying to figure out how to animate things people do with actionscript without the actionscript =)
Anyway, thanks for the compliments and the review! Make more Shadowrun remixes!
Awesome, nice job !
This is the best Flash tutorial I've seen on this site yet !
Absolutely fantastic !
Well thank you. I dunno about best, but I try.
Thanks for the review!
Nice job!
The eye (and ear) candy was very nice, as well as the wealth of knowledge in this flash. All in all, nicely done. :)
By the by, glad to know there are other people who remember the SNES Shadowrun game.
This is awesome.
Not only was the content excellent, but the visuals were amazing too. It is obvious that a lot of time was put into this. I especially likes the parts about masking and rain, since I can never get those right. Thanks for the help and congrats on a job well done.
Thanks, I try. I spent about a month putting this together off and on (I'm estimating). I started around April 8th 2005 and released it May 11th 2005. Masking and rain were late additions. Someone asked, so I put something together. I actually learned to make rain so I could do this tutorial (useful skill).
Thanks for the compliments and the review!