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Help => General => Topic started by: Aquacalvin on January 16, 2014, 08:25:49 pm

Title: Good SFML Tutorial?
Post by: Aquacalvin on January 16, 2014, 08:25:49 pm

Hey everyone! I have a question. I have started SFML and need a very basic tutorial. Is there a good place where I can learn SFML? I have SFML Game Development (the book), and I have looked through the SFML official tutorial, and both sources don't explain SFML as basically as I need it. I see people making all kinds of cool games on the projects thread of this forum, and I want to know where they learned all of their knowledge. All help appreciated!
Calvin

Title: Re: Good SFML Tutorial?
Post by: Nexus on January 16, 2014, 08:30:35 pm

What do you have in mind that is not taught by these resources?

Most people here learned SFML through the official tutorials, the book has not been around for very long yet. But you won't learn game development simply by reading, you also have to get practical experience by starting own projects.

Title: Re: Good SFML Tutorial?
Post by: Aquacalvin on January 16, 2014, 08:57:52 pm

I love the tutorials on the website, but I need more:
1.) Hands on experience (Which I can do myself)
2.) The most basic of the basic tutorial (e.g.. what is sf::)
Thanks!
Calvin

Title: Re: Good SFML Tutorial?
Post by: Daddi on January 16, 2014, 09:01:47 pm

Maybe what you need is a resource on C++ first? :)

Title: Re: Good SFML Tutorial?
Post by: Gobbles on January 16, 2014, 09:18:37 pm

Hands on experience comes from working on different games and reading. I can never stress enough how important it is for a programmer to read and try new things. You won't be able to think of everything, no one can, BUT there is such an abundance of books and material out there you can lend ideas from any number of them, finding exactly what you want.

Not one person started programming and on day 1 made an awesome game (well.. I sure thought my games were awesome, but the internet would very quickly disagree).

Try thinking of a simple game you enjoy playing, Pong(my first game)?, arkanoid, pacman, snake... any of these. Very simple ideas. Pracice making them. You will fail.. .GOOD! thats a good thing, learn and understand why you failed and try again from scratch, this time using what you just learned.

Takes time, patience and dedication to make any good game, but if you can do it, the results are never a let down.

Title: Re: Good SFML Tutorial?
Post by: dabbertorres on January 17, 2014, 01:32:04 am

http://www.gamefromscratch.com/page/Game-From-Scratch-CPP-Edition.aspx

This one isn't bad at all. It does use 1.6 though, so you'll have to modify its code yourself for use with 2.1, which is a good thing, it'll force you to get to know 2.x better. It also goes through building as Release and distributing.

Title: Re: Good SFML Tutorial?
Post by: Grimshaw on January 17, 2014, 01:33:37 am

Trust us, you need to read about C++ first, that's where the basics of the basics are! :)

Title: Re: Good SFML Tutorial?
Post by: Aquacalvin on January 17, 2014, 10:32:13 pm

Thanks for all the help!

Title: Re: Good SFML Tutorial?
Post by: Gobbles on January 17, 2014, 10:40:27 pm

You can thank us by making great games and boosting the games economy!