Community Rep Dacy Posted September 29, 2019 Author Community Rep Share Posted September 29, 2019 And, the promised video on creating different levels in your base: -Dacy 5 5 -Dacy My base building tutorials are always available for you! Want to join the Base Builder's Discord? Check out the new Base Directory! Is your base here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snakebit Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 Just wanted to pop in and say "THANK YOU" for these great video tutorials. I never did anything with SG bases on Live and I just recently found myself starting to tinker an you helped me out immensly. Much appreciated. 3 ________________ Freedom toons: Illuminata Phoebros Mim Ogrebane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmmySky Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 Fantastic, thank you! I am going to make a two story living quarters or bunkroom area for our base. This will help tremendously. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Rep Dacy Posted September 29, 2019 Author Community Rep Share Posted September 29, 2019 D'aww, you guys make me smile so big! I'm so glad this is helping! Thanks for taking the time to tell me about it! -Dacy 5 1 -Dacy My base building tutorials are always available for you! Want to join the Base Builder's Discord? Check out the new Base Directory! Is your base here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodumas Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 Oh these are really useful. These are going to be my Beginner's Bible now that I'm interested in creating a certain look for my base. YAAAAAAS! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Rep Dacy Posted October 5, 2019 Author Community Rep Share Posted October 5, 2019 Speaking of creating a certain look, the latest video looks at sky options, both base-wide and placed, and their effects. Terraforming video planned next. -Dacy 4 3 -Dacy My base building tutorials are always available for you! Want to join the Base Builder's Discord? Check out the new Base Directory! Is your base here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tahliah Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Amazing work, Dacy! I sent my sg mate here to learn how to build our base, and the results are stunning. Thank you for all the work you put into these vids. ❤️ 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmmySky Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 I got my sons okay to rebuild the entire base....but he likes building too so I will make one common area we compromise on (with porters and npcs) the we will each have our own half we can design however we want. Sunday is my rebuild day and I am looking forward to it! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Rep Dacy Posted October 10, 2019 Author Community Rep Share Posted October 10, 2019 Thank you!! It always makes my day to hear back. And doh! I put this in the index, but forgot to post it here; here’s the promised bit on terraforming: -Dacy 2 5 -Dacy My base building tutorials are always available for you! Want to join the Base Builder's Discord? Check out the new Base Directory! Is your base here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osirisbain Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Awesome vids, I've been building quite a few bases lately but there were some things I couldn't find a good look for, but your vids gave me a few more ideas to try out. I think I've spent more time building in the last 3 weeks then running mishs. Thanks for the tips 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Votiga Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 I really like your terraforming video! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giovanni Valia Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Thanks for making these videos Dacy. The tips have been very helpful and I always feel inspired after seeing you build. 2 1 Excelsior Server: Giovanni Valia, Operative Velez, Fortunata Valeri, LongFang Mercer SG: Shades of Arachnos; 315-6811 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Rep Dacy Posted October 16, 2019 Author Community Rep Share Posted October 16, 2019 Thanks so much! It inspires me to hear that the videos are helping! I’ve got a video on making roads and other concrete surfaces all set up to record, but my software is giving me fits. Hopefully I can get it to cooperate soon! -Dacy 3 -Dacy My base building tutorials are always available for you! Want to join the Base Builder's Discord? Check out the new Base Directory! Is your base here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Rep Dacy Posted November 6, 2019 Author Community Rep Share Posted November 6, 2019 (edited) DELETED- Something was wrong with the speed. New video, Roads and Other Cement Surfaces. You can see most of these surfaces in a finished product, along with more demonstrations of materials good for the outside of buildings in the upcoming video release, "Materials Good For the Outside of Buildings", which I will release tomorrow, along with a base preview, but I do not wish to release any of that until the base itself is debuted by its owner. Coming soon (maybe even later today, if my video software cooperates >.<) Advanced Building Tips and Techniques. -Dacy Edited November 7, 2019 by Dacy 3 1 -Dacy My base building tutorials are always available for you! Want to join the Base Builder's Discord? Check out the new Base Directory! Is your base here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Rep Dacy Posted November 7, 2019 Author Community Rep Share Posted November 7, 2019 Argh, so frustrated. The software I had been using for my videos was inherent in my vid card, but it stopped working. So, we looked for another program, my husband likes to be careful because there is a lot of malware out there. So, we got what seemed to be a good program, and I recorded a LOT of content. However, something is wrong; it plays at a much higher speed. The voice track, it's the speed it should be, but all the video is moving very fast, and it seems to be consistent with all the videos I did. Hours of work. *headdesk* So, things will be a bit delayed, to say the least. -Dacy 2 -Dacy My base building tutorials are always available for you! Want to join the Base Builder's Discord? Check out the new Base Directory! Is your base here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmmySky Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 I hope you get this worked out! I know how frustrating technology can be. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Rep Dacy Posted November 9, 2019 Author Community Rep Share Posted November 9, 2019 Two videos to post, more soon. I’m making up for lost time. -Dacy 3 2 -Dacy My base building tutorials are always available for you! Want to join the Base Builder's Discord? Check out the new Base Directory! Is your base here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Dare Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 Oh good, I was hoping you'd be able to salvage the videos you'd already made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Rep Dacy Posted November 9, 2019 Author Community Rep Share Posted November 9, 2019 I didn’t. 😏 I’m making new ones. Oh, and, I wanted to ask anyone who watches the advanced techniques: was it actually helpful? Clear? At times I wasn’t sure I was explaining it well. Or that the things I was doing had been obvious techniques to everyone but me. 😝 -Dacy 2 1 -Dacy My base building tutorials are always available for you! Want to join the Base Builder's Discord? Check out the new Base Directory! Is your base here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmmySky Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 1 hour ago, Dacy said: I didn’t. 😏 I’m making new ones. Oh, and, I wanted to ask anyone who watches the advanced techniques: was it actually helpful? Clear? At times I wasn’t sure I was explaining it well. Or that the things I was doing had been obvious techniques to everyone but me. 😝 -Dacy Some were very helpful like flipping and stacking brick walls (I like the concrete at the top and bottom) and the window thing although I dont think I have that much patience lol. I still don't understand the angle snap...as in...when you tilt something just a notch is there a 1% angle option, why 'freehand' it. Also on the roads they didnt seem to be melding together to me, still a slight edge where one meets the other but that may be you being close...might look more blended far away, or might be graphics rendering or even just personal eyesight or preference. I really liked (in both videos, really all your videos) that you present items and how to use them differently. And I will totally use that surface trick to stack items I am sick of grass going below pavement! Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Rep Dacy Posted November 9, 2019 Author Community Rep Share Posted November 9, 2019 Thanks so much, @EmmySky! Yeah, the "window thing" was a demo of one thing that's possible, but it was also demonstrating possibilities. When you're looking to place quite a few objects perhaps just behind a wall so they show in front of the wall, or any time you're working with an array of items and you want them to line up, it's a good method, and I've edited with it and without it, and with it is so much easier and faster! I use the disabled feature on anglesnap to get the lowest possible degree. 1% is not much of an angle, but it's more than the disabled option gives you. You can also set the anglesnap to .1, .2, .5, whatever you wish, as I've shown, but I don't see a lot of difference between that and disabled, so I usually just use "disabled" unless even that is too much. The larger the object, of course, the greater the difference between the two sides you angle, so with large objects like I was working with, it's important to get the smallest degree of angle possible. I get what you are saying about "don't understand it yet", it was probably the last control I learned to use. I didn't appreciate it at all, and would routinely turn it to "disabled" when editing because I didn't understand what it was doing, so thought, better to turn it off. Now I use it all the time, and it does make editing easier, but conceptually, it's one of the harder controls to appreciate, I think. The roads can't meld quite as completely as some items do because they -are- at slightly different angles, and that makes a difference, as I showed you in the garden wall demo. So, if you don't like that bit of difference, I guess don't meld them. 🙂 I prefer it to the edge showing, or the flicker, when I'm trying to get a more consistent road color, but there are trade offs with the editor, unfortunately. Thanks so much for the feedback!! -Dacy 3 1 -Dacy My base building tutorials are always available for you! Want to join the Base Builder's Discord? Check out the new Base Directory! Is your base here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Rep Dacy Posted November 10, 2019 Author Community Rep Share Posted November 10, 2019 Yes, I've been busy, I had all of the videos planned out, laid out, and I've been unable to do anything about it! So, here is the next video, a look at some building materials for the outside of buildings in a base, and where to find them in the editor. (I mean, really, isn't that really the biggest part of the trick sometimes?) -Dacy 4 3 -Dacy My base building tutorials are always available for you! Want to join the Base Builder's Discord? Check out the new Base Directory! Is your base here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorrentYed Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 Just want to say I love your videos, Dacy! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Rep Dacy Posted November 15, 2019 Author Community Rep Share Posted November 15, 2019 Thank you! I hope they help. 😊 -Dacy 3 -Dacy My base building tutorials are always available for you! Want to join the Base Builder's Discord? Check out the new Base Directory! Is your base here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Rep Dacy Posted November 22, 2019 Author Community Rep Share Posted November 22, 2019 It came to my attention that there were a couple of details that were relevant to building above or below that I covered in separate videos. So, for those who aren't necessarily viewing all, here's a bit more complete guide to building above or below the base. This video includes everything from consideration of lighting, and choosing the plot and room, to opening the ceiling, moving the base portal, laying down things like grass or water so they don't flicker, the commands you'll need if you're moving the portal so that you can edit from anywhere, and further demonstration of what to do once you've got that first floor tile laid where you want to build. I hope this helps! -Dacy 1 4 -Dacy My base building tutorials are always available for you! Want to join the Base Builder's Discord? Check out the new Base Directory! Is your base here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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