Tutorials

Here you can find a list of tutorials & how to guides for Visionaire Studio by various members of the Visionaire Studio Team & its users.

Text / Image Tutorials

Basic

Tutorial Name	By
How to disable interaction without hiding the cursor	AFRLme
How to create dynamic character blinking for your characters	AFRLme
How to add dynamic footstep sounds to your characters	Lebostein
How to create hotspots using images or animations	AFRLme
Menu 101 - A guide to creating menus in Visionaire Studio	AFRLme
How to turn your regular animation into a pendulum animation with only 2 lines of Lua script	AFRLme
How to sort out real-time log monitoring	AFRLme
How to prevent skipping of cutscenes & videos (videos still skip)	AFRLme
How to use the object mask plugin	AFRLme
How to add a splash video	AFRLme

Intermediate

Tutorial Name	By
How to create dynamic lighting effects using images	AFRLme
How to create a simple playtime counter using a value, display text & a few lines of Lua script	AFRLme

Advanced

Tutorial Name	By
How to create dynamic clouds (random scale, image & speed)	AFRLme

Video Tutorials

Andiliddell's Video Tutorials

These tutorials are intended for Visionaire Studio 4.x. Actually these videos document the creation & development process of Andi's submission for the Visionaire Studio 4.x Demo Game Competition.

#	Fantasy Quest Development Videos
01	Introduction, setup & interface
02	Scenes, room artwork, layers
03	Character animations & setup
04	Interfaces, verb coins, cursors, fonts, walk-able areas
05	Objects, visible condition, changing rooms

Redspark's Video Tutorials

These tutorials are intended for Visionaire Studio 4.x.

#	Miscellaneous
01	Setting up a Visionaire project

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#	New Game Essentials
01	Starting a new adventure
02	Making a scene
03	Character building
04	Of mice and interfaces
05	Fee, fi, fo font

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#	The Scenic Route
01	The way of the waypoint
02	A behind the scene objects view
03	Reading the signs
04	Snooping around
05	Bride of waypoint

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#	Game Assets
01	Creating bitmap fonts

Sebastian's Video Tutorials

These tutorials are intended for Visionaire Studio 5.x. Playlist: here.

#	The Hitchhiker's Guide to Visionaire Studio 5 [DE] (English subs coming later)
00	Vorstellung (introduction)
01	Projektplanung & Übersicht (project planning & overview)
02	Mauszeiger, Schriftarten & Charaktere (mouse cursors, fonts & characters)
03	Erste Szene & Wegsysteme (first scene & way system)
04	Charakterskalierung & Lightmaps (character scaling & lightmaps)
05	Deponia / Baphomets Fluch 1-Click Interface (single command interface aka broken sword interface)
06	Sam & Max Hit the Road Interface (cycle command interface aka sam & max interface)
07	SCUMM Interface
08	Verb Coin Interface
09	Items
10	Das klassische Inventar (classic point & click inventory)
11	Das moderne Inventar (drag & drop inventory system)
12	Kommentargruppen (comment sets)
13	Hotspot-Animationen (hotspot / snoop animations)
14	Standard Dialog System
15	Das Puzzle (creating a scene interaction puzzle)
16	Spielstand Speichern & Laden (save & load menu)
17	Lua Crashkurs (1/2) (Lua crash-course - part 1 of 2)
18	Lua Crashkurs (2/2) (Lua crash-course - part 2 of 2)

Suro's Video Tutorials

These tutorials are intended for Visionaire Studio 3.x.

#	Visionaire Tutorials
01	Basic character setup
02	Setting up the game
03	Aaaand action!

William Kruger's Video Tutorials

These tutorials are intended for Visionaire Studio 5.x. Playlist: here. More info here.

#	Visionaire Tutorials
01	Creating a scene from scratch
02	Scene animations
03	Fonts
04	Graphical Elements (part 1)
05	Graphical Elements (part 2)
06	Inventory
07	Combined Commands
08	Conditions (part 1)
09	Conditions (part 2)
10	Changing Scenes
11	Draggable Inventory Items
12	If Statements
13	Values