RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT- THE TUTORIAL

THE TUTORIAL- creating light

The topic of my tutorial is creating a light. The reason for selecting this is because I think it relates back to my first and second experiment. In my first experiment, I made flowgraph to ,make objects glow as for the second experiment, I picked a feed with the title temperature and light sensor but I focused more towards light and decided to go with light instead. I concluded that and therefore decided to make a tutorial showing how to create light in sandbox2.

Light, according to Wikipedia is an electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye. Other words, it is also a form of energy. Light has become such an important element on earth however people do not tend to see the importance of it and sometimes take it for granted until something happens, for example when the lights go off, when the power supply is down or when the electricity goes off, especially at night and only then we realize how important it is to us. The light source has become an essential and we almost can’t live without it unlike those days where light has not existed and people lit candles to get light source.

My tutorial is all about going back to basics and creating light. The tutorial is for all users, however there will a flowgraph so it is good if there is FlowgraphPluginSystem installed. The tutorial is conducted using camtasia studio. I did the tutorial with clear instructions written on the screen, the reason for this communication with the viewers is that I find this way more straight forward and easier for viewers to see it and understand because of past experiences, recording verbally and giving out instructions verbally can sometimes be frustrating for viewers because it might not be clear spoken and it would be difficult for the viewers and sometimes have to replay the tutorial over and over again and that is really inefficient. I also made the arrows from the mouse in a different colour to make it easier for viewers to follow it without having problem seeing it. Also, there is background music to make the whole tutorial less dull and boring.

Although it is just creating light in sandbox, but it can be interesting, I was surprised that there are so many styles of lighting and creating light is really useful in sandbox, especially when you are creating a scene, an environment, setting up a place for instance a restaurant, a school, buildings and more, everything enquires lightings and therefore learning and knowing how to create light is important so that you can do and play around with it.

In conclusion, something simple can be very useful since it is an essential and it is used commonly and in the real world people are using it every single moment so if we want to make our digital gaming world as real as the real world we should do it right and get the essential details done correctly starting from LIGHT !

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