Josh Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 People always ask me for video tutorials. Does it make sense to make a video tutorial for a programming SDK? Ultra App Kit doesn't really have a user interface so video tutorials seem like they might not be that useful to me. What do you think? Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genebris Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Some people like t have video tutorials for absolutely anything. Plus you can show results of your code and give explanations better than in text. Personally, whenever I buy any framework, I hope to see beginner tutorials on youtube in addition to documentation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yue Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Any way to show the product in action in marketing is totally valid. A video showing how the product is used, highlighting its advantages, its workflow, etc. will help more than one to get to know the product better. It is proven that an image accompanied by comments is better in the mind of the interested person than something written. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share Posted January 30, 2021 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reepblue Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Gonna be honest, I was doing something the past week and it was really nice to youtube all my questions. Quote Cyclone - Ultra Game System - Component Preprocessor - Tex2TGA - Darkness Awaits Template (Leadwerks) If you like my work, consider supporting me on Patreon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 Okay, here is the first video. Please tell me what you think. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genebris Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Great, that's what I would like to see when I've just bought the kit. By the way, what if I want to use VS Code? I'd still need to have Visual Studio open and compile in it, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 56 minutes ago, GenebrisЖ said: Great, that's what I would like to see when I've just bought the kit. By the way, what if I want to use VS Code? I'd still need to have Visual Studio open and compile in it, right? I think VSCode supports C++ somehow, but I am not sure about the details of that. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thirsty Panther Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 1 hour ago, Josh said: I think VSCode supports C++ somehow, but I am not sure about the details of that. There is an C++ extension for VS Code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thirsty Panther Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Regarding the Video: -Good straight forward explanation of how to get started and excellent demonstration of how to use the example scripts. - Some umm and arrrs that could be fixed up. - I know the App Kit is aimed at experienced users but no explanation of how to get / use Visual studio. - You skipped the login process for Ultra App Kit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genebris Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 53 minutes ago, Thirsty Panther said: There is an C++ extension for VS Code. It doesn't compile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reepblue Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 37 minutes ago, GenebrisЖ said: 1 hour ago, Thirsty Panther said: There is an C++ extension for VS Code. It doesn't compile. I think you still need msvc installed. Visual Studio is my go to for C++ but if/when this and the new engine go multiplatform, VS code should be supported. Also nice video Josh, I enjoy watching them. ? Quote Cyclone - Ultra Game System - Component Preprocessor - Tex2TGA - Darkness Awaits Template (Leadwerks) If you like my work, consider supporting me on Patreon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thirsty Panther Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 9 hours ago, GenebrisЖ said: It doesn't compile. This might help. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/cpp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 12 hours ago, Thirsty Panther said: Regarding the Video: -Good straight forward explanation of how to get started and excellent demonstration of how to use the example scripts. - Some umm and arrrs that could be fixed up. - I know the App Kit is aimed at experienced users but no explanation of how to get / use Visual studio. - You skipped the login process for Ultra App Kit. I am trying to record these in a way that minimizes how easily they will become outdated. In fact, I am going to re-do this one and remove all mentions of "Ultra App Kit" since the video is applicable to Ultra Engine SDK and I don't want to redo it in the future. I also don't mention the log in process because there is no guarantee of the order the videos will be presented in in the future, or maybe the login process will be different depending on where the software was purchases. Getting the speech perfect will probably double or triple production time, so I am just going to focus on getting the content out and try not to make chewing noises into the microphone. 2 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thirsty Panther Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 Fair enough. Its difficult to do videos and to keep the content current. Especially with software that will be evolving over time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cromartie Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Josh said: I am trying to record these in a way that minimizes how easily they will become outdated. In fact, I am going to re-do this one and remove all mentions of "Ultra App Kit" since the video is applicable to Ultra Engine SDK and I don't want to redo it in the future. I also don't mention the log in process because there is no guarantee of the order the videos will be presented in in the future, or maybe the login process will be different depending on where the software was purchases. Getting the speech perfect will probably double or triple production time, so I am just going to focus on getting the content out and try not to make chewing noises into the microphone. haha, I didn't hear any chewing sounds) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 2 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 1 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 2 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 1 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 Okay, that wraps up all the big ideas that I think benefit from video explanations. The widget layout and DPI scaling stuff are especially important. I could make more videos but it would just be me running the examples and giving a commentary, which I don't feel adds much. Maybe I will do more in the future, but I feel this is good for now. 2 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Hi Josh, really liking App Kit Ultra. A video which is missing is more in depth on how to place widgets into panels and have these widgets interact with other panel content. I'm stuck on how this all works with the event system as it is a little different to using if statements in the code. Also, an example of this in code, where multiple widgets are demonstrated at the same time as would be the norm for an IDE type program. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted April 3, 2021 Author Share Posted April 3, 2021 15 hours ago, Martin Harris said: Hi Josh, really liking App Kit Ultra. A video which is missing is more in depth on how to place widgets into panels and have these widgets interact with other panel content. I'm stuck on how this all works with the event system as it is a little different to using if statements in the code. Also, an example of this in code, where multiple widgets are demonstrated at the same time as would be the norm for an IDE type program. I am working on one big video that goes through all the widget types and explains what they do and the different style options. 1 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 That's great news, looking forward to seeing it. I'm wanting to put a black and grey checkerboard into a window with openGL would that be something which could go in? I'm working through GL at the moment as it's the first time with this for me. This is what I have done so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m.yuneeb90 Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 (edited) Hi Josh, I got the ultra app kit on the store, went through the documentation and all the videos and tested it in visual studio, it is great and really helpful. I find that the sdk removes a lot of the headaches that come up in native programming. Though I have a few requests, in the kickstarter video of the ultra app kit you mentioned creating your own widgets, but I cant seem to find anything in the documentation that explains how to create custom widgets etc, so if a video explaining that would be very helpful. Also I find that ultra app kit might need some functions that allows the user to create shapes such as lines, splines, circles, rectangles etc, for instance I have to create engineering related desktop applications and I want to make graphs with lines and axes, at the moment it seems that it might not be possible with the current version of the app kit based on documentation. Also widgets like node based material editors as seen in unreal and unity etc, so some features concerning these might really boost the app kit as ultimately you might need these in future for the new game engine as well. So if its possible with the current version of the kit, then a video explaining how to do it and if not then some sort of a roadmap of future features for the kit would really boost the user interest in this framework. Thanks. Edited April 4, 2021 by m.yuneeb90 minor fixes in grammar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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