The method of rope handling demonstrated in this how-to video came from the Japanese. Pirates during the warring states period used such bundles to secure prisoners among other shipboard duties and the bundle stays alive today in hojujitsu. A few fathoms of paracord in a pocket and a handier tool aboard a boat would be hard to find. Watch this video knot-tying tutorial and learn how to tie a paracord bundle.
Check out this instructional English language video with Moujan Z. as she talks about slang in 19th century America. This was a colorful period for the American vernacular with references to agriculture, the Civil War, and the frontier. Any ordinary sentence can suddenly be turned into a fun parade. Practice your 19th century American slang with this English language tutorial.
The motor from an old remote control car can be used to make an automated drawbridge on a castle diorama. This is a nice project and a great way to add special effects to a diorama. Dioramas are great for war games like Warhammer 40K, and add a slightly more realistic touch. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to automate a drawbridge on a diorama game terrain.
Watch this instructional video to begin painting miniatures with dry brush techniques. Dry brushing can create realistic weathered textures on dioramas, war game terrain, architectural models and model railroads.
Want to put some electronics into your terrain piece or diorama? LED lights are great. You can use tiny watch batteries, which are small and efficient. LED lights are cheap, they come in colours, and you can find them in all kinds of broken gadgets. Watch this instructional video to illuminate your miniature dioramas, doll houses, and miniature war game terrain.
You can paint your plaster blue and coat it with a gloss, but there are easier ways to make artificial water for miniature dioramas, architectural models and war game terrain. Easy Water is a product made up of small plastic pellets that need to be melted and poured onto the model. You cannot use this on styrofoam, obviously. This instructional video provides some alternative methods for creating water effects on miniature dioramas.
This instructional video provides examples various supplies for war game terrain and diorama making. Most of these supplies for miniatures can be found at a local dollar store. Look for cardboard tubes, plastic sheeting, high density foam, metal foils and wires, plaster, sand twigs and other found materials.
Devil May Cry 3 is arguably one of the best 3rd person slashers for the last generation console platforms right next to God of War, Ninja Gaiden Black, and Kingdom Hearts II. The combat system leaves the possibility of generating combos largely open ended for the player. In this instructional video, learn how to perform impressive combinations you can continue connecting further with Vergil through one technique, sword hanging.
Learn how to create dynamic lighting, constraints on moveable lights, and dynamic shadows in Unreal Engine 3 for Gears of War.
This video covers creating terrain layers, Ground cover, foliage, factories, Speed Trees and sky using the Unreal Engine for Gears of War.
This tutorial shows you how to export a character out of Maya and into the generic browser to animate it in Unreal Engine 3.0 for Gears of War.
See how to attach a mesh to a player in the Unreal Engine 3 for Gears of War. This is great for banners / helmets / bunny slippers etc.
This tutorial shows you how to path Artificial Intelligence monsters in Unreal Engine 3 for Gears of War. This allows them to move around and get them to attack players.
This Unreal Engine tutorial is a newbs guide to spawning stuff like Emergence Holes, Weapons, Actor Factories for Gears of War.
This video deals with Constraints on Rigid Bodys within the engine and how to set them up in the Unreal Engine for Gears of War.
Jason Welsh makes a terrain layer setup and show you how to add materials and edit the terrain ... to make an outside environment.. SAVE OFTEN!!!!! when working with terrains in Unreal Engine for Gears of War.
This time Jason Welsh imports a mesh into the Unreal Engine 3.0 for Gears of War and makes a special material for the object. The Material editor is huge in unreal editor so don't get lost!
This Gears of War lesson will be taking a simple mesh from Maya and exporting it into the Unreal engine and applying a collision mesh to it so that it will move when you shoot it.
Today's word is "propaganda". This is a noun which means misleading information or ideas to promote a certain cause.
Today's word is "precipitate". This is a verb which means to cause some event to happen suddenly.
Get tips on making and animating Star Wars lightsabers using the Neon Light Engine in Effects Lab
How to make Jedi force jump effects as seen in the Star Wars movies for your own films using Effects Lab and Windows Movie Maker.
How to play train songs and the fox chase on the harmonica. (G Harmonica) The best guys for this are Joe filisko, Richard Sleigh, Grant Dermondy, Peter "Mad Cat" Ruth, and Charlie Mcoy Sonny Terry etc. To really hear it done right listen to those guys. Also, all the old pre war harp players that those guys got it from!
Are you a Star War fan? This is a a tutorial on making light sabers in Photoshop. Learn to use Gaussian blur and Color Balance to create the glowing effect of the sabers.
Tired of living in the shadows of the gods? This video shows you how to kill Zeus, button by button.
There may be questions from some about the future of Magic Leap, but in Japan, The Force is with the augmented reality startup.
Move over, Star Wars. You're not the only Disney property that can play in the Lenovo Mirage AR headset anymore.
There's something extremely satisfying about hunting down your online adversaries and knocking them out with a well-placed shot, which probably explains why shooting games are still one some of the most popular time killers for iOS and Android.
Already a dominant force at the box office, Marvel Studios appears intent on establishing itself as the ruler of augmented reality media as well.
After some social media teasing, the Star Wars universe's Magic Leap debut has finally arrived. On Tuesday, Magic Leap announced the release of Star Wars: Project Prog, which is available for free via Magic Leap World.
Like Marvel's Avengers, Facebook's Camera AR platform now has a number of new AR superpowers at its disposal, so it is fitting that Earth's Mightiest Heroes have the distinction of displaying them.
With the heavily anticipated installment of the God of War game series arriving on April 20, PlayStation has taken the opportunity to make its first foray into mobile augmented reality with a companion app.
If you or someone you know has younger kids and you're looking for an augmented reality toy, Pai Technology has just the educational option for you.
Until Star Wars Jedi Challenges arrives in November, a forthcoming ARKit revision of HoloGrid: Monster Battle from Tippett Studios and Happy Giant, might be the closest most Star Wars fans can get to playing the HoloChess game from the movie.
On May 25th, 1977 a small movie with a $13,000,000 budget came out. At the time, the executives involved had no faith that this film would make any money. To the surprise of many in the industry, not only did that film set records, it led to a number of other movies, video games, books, toys, cartoons and so much more. This film we know as Star Wars became a long lasting hit that is still setting records 40 years later.
The Broadway musical War Paint is teaming with augmented reality cosmetics app YouCam Makeup to promote the show on iOS and Android devices. The musical, which centers on the famous rivalry between Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein, two cosmetics industry pioneers, has been the talk of Broadway since its premiere in March 2017.
The force is strong with this project. Colin Furze is a British YouTuber who is a self-proclaimed "garage inventor and video maker." In a recent collaboration with eBay, Furze created the "ultimate Star Wars project," an 18-feet-tall playhouse version of the AT-ACT from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
We've already seen how VR can have some therapeutic benefits, but not the dramatized version. A play called Ugly Lies the Bone emotionally examines how war veterans can heal (or at least treat) their PTSD using virtual reality.
Hello, in this episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, we will continue with the Star Wars theme, last episode we made Star Wars Death Star Peanut Butter Cups, this episode we are making Star Wars Death Star Popsicles. So we are really getting great value out of our Death Star molds, because of the versatility they provide. These popsicles are super easy to make, if I can make them, you can make them! If you have any comments put them down below, and I will get back to you.
Welcome back, my hacker novitiates!
