Tutorial Video Series

[Zacchaeus]

So, following some recent posts about the 'lack' of basic tutorials I've started a series of videos covering the use of Fantasy Grounds. How many and how much detail they go into will depend on available time. The list of videos to date is below

Video One: (https://youtu.be/GkHf7joA7f4) Getting Started
Video Two: (https://youtu.be/vkpxy9DOYuI) User Interface Part 1
Video Three: (https://youtu.be/OB5QLE0DHDE) User Interface Part 2
Video Four: (https://youtu.be/btvZW9F25Po) User Interface Part 3
Video Five (https://youtu.be/a9fULbvYIgY): Chatbox
Video Six: (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?43513-Video-Giving-player-control-of-an-NPC&p=387176#post387176) Giving players control of NPCs
Video Seven: (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?42302-Video-on-Random-Encounters) Creating Random Encounters
Video Eight: (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?43677-Point-Buy-Video&p=388441#post388441) How to use point buy in Manage Characters
Video Nine: (https://youtu.be/5ef3mzP1-Ks) Changing tokens and names in encounters and using the $PC function in random encounters
Rollable Tables: (https://youtu.be/zqJfCVCXKsM) A short video on how to create and use rollable tables
Exporting to a module: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9f_XBY3ncU&t=39s) This video looks at how to export your creations to a module.
Creating and using encounters: (https://youtu.be/ySYK_Ma6ouI) As the name suggests this video looks at encounter creation.
A video (https://youtu.be/DduOSGWBHAg) showing you how to use Valeros's Map Align (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?19813-Map-Align-Utility-to-scale-and-align-map-to-grid) Utility.
Spellcasting NPCs (https://youtu.be/o4PLP-Y38Qw) - How to create and edit the spellcasting trait for NPCs

[GarthGiantbane]

Good video - short and concise.

Thanks!

[damned]

Great work Zacchaeus short focused videos are the best option I believe.

[wmsmitty]

Great work Zacchaeus short focused videos are the best option I believe.

Exactly! :)

[wmsmitty]

So Zacchaeus, in your Getting Started video, you reference the video link under Getting Started, and I see now that it has a decent landing page with a pretty good break down of various categories. You or someone that has access to the Wiki, should update it with a link to your channel as well. You have an array of informative tutorials that appear to be more in line with what initial users to Fantasy Grounds are looking for. I would say, add the Digital DM guy as well, but I believe he is working for FG now? And has deprecated his Digital DM channel?

Anyway, a reference to your resources is a definite must. Cheers!

[Zacchaeus]

I've added a new video to the list in the first post, showing how to change tokens and names in encounters and also using the $PC function in random encounters.

[Zacchaeus]

Added two new videos one on rollable tables and another on exporting to a module. Links in the first post.

[Bonkon]

Good Day All :)
Could this be stickied? It is great info :)

[Zacchaeus]

Good Day All :)
Could this be stickied? It is great info :)

It has been sticked for a very long time. See the guides videos and other information sticky at the top of the 5e forum.

[LordEntrails]

Good Day All :)
Could this be stickied? It is great info :)
Don't forget, you can always subscribe to posts you like. And if you edit the subscription setting you can make multiple folders to organize your favorite threads and turn off email notifications.

[gaara6666]

"hi ma Zacchaeus and I STARTED making videos " THis *&!@# then puts out 11 videos. Not the hero we deserve but the hero we need. Good job sir.

[Zacchaeus]

I count 38 so far :)

https://www.youtube.com/user/Zacchaeus55/videos?view_as=subscriber

[Bonkon]

Good Day All :)
This will teach me to post while on a phone and 5 hour flight :)

Thanks :)

[ctcharger]

I will start watching these videos! Thanks for putting them in one place. After I watch all of these, is there a Qualifying School for DM wannbes or do the players have to suffer through my learning curve? :)

[Zacchaeus]

I will start watching these videos! Thanks for putting them in one place. After I watch all of these, is there a Qualifying School for DM wannbes or do the players have to suffer through my learning curve? :)

Your players need to suffer. :)

Or you could drop in at the FG College (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?40020-Join-Fantasy-Grounds-College-Learn-Fantasy-Grounds-learn-D-amp-D-and-then-play!).

[ctcharger]

Aha! Thanks! Oh they will suffer for sure but now it's by design, not by accident...

[Zacchaeus]

New video added on encounter creation.

[Yehudah]

So, following some recent posts about the 'lack' of basic tutorials I've started a series of videos covering the use of Fantasy Grounds. How many and how much detail they go into will depend on available time. The list of videos to date is below

Video One: (https://youtu.be/GkHf7joA7f4) Getting Started
Video Two: (https://youtu.be/vkpxy9DOYuI) User Interface Part 1
Video Three: (https://youtu.be/OB5QLE0DHDE) User Interface Part 2
Video Four: (https://youtu.be/btvZW9F25Po) User Interface Part 3
Video Five (https://youtu.be/a9fULbvYIgY): Chatbox
Video Six: (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?43513-Video-Giving-player-control-of-an-NPC&p=387176#post387176) Giving players control of NPCs
Video Seven: (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?42302-Video-on-Random-Encounters) Creating Random Encounters
Video Eight: (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?43677-Point-Buy-Video&p=388441#post388441) How to use point buy in Manage Characters
Video Nine: (https://youtu.be/5ef3mzP1-Ks) Changing tokens and names in encounters and using the $PC function in random encounters
Rollable Tables: (https://youtu.be/zqJfCVCXKsM) A short video on how to create and use rollable tables
Exporting to a module: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9f_XBY3ncU&t=39s) This video looks at how to export your creations to a module.
Creating and using encounters: (https://youtu.be/ySYK_Ma6ouI) As the name suggests this video looks at encounter creation.
A video (https://youtu.be/DduOSGWBHAg) showing you how to use Valero's Map Align (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?19813-Map-Align-Utility-to-scale-and-align-map-to-grid) Utility.

I'm bookmarking this. Thanks.

[Zacchaeus]

Added a new video all about spellcasting NPCs. Link in the first post.

[Elrix]

Zacchaeus,

Great tutorials,

If I could make 1 suggestion, please go with /uiscale 135 or more. even at full screen I have use the magnifier. I had a blast with your Scotsman and Sunburned Scotsman, and then Edinborough and Glasgow sub races.

Question: Can you go over the UI setting setting that you use? either the versions of FGU keep changing rapidly or your UI is different that what I see.

[Zacchaeus]

Zacchaeus,

Great tutorials,

If I could make 1 suggestion, please go with /uiscale 135 or more. even at full screen I have use the magnifier. I had a blast with your Scotsman and Sunburned Scotsman, and then Edinborough and Glasgow sub races.

Question: Can you go over the UI setting setting that you use? either the versions of FGU keep changing rapidly or your UI is different that what I see.

The videos linked in this thread were made for Classic and are now very old and out of date. You'll find videos here for Unity https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?55797-How-do-I-in-Unity including a revised series on getting started here https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?75515-New-Video-Series

The videos linked in this thread were also recorded at a lower resolution and are not particularly sophisticated. More recent ones were recorded in HD and should be of better quality. You will probably still find some changes in some videos since the UI has changed since the initial Unity release.