To Use Live Tutorial it is best to start at the top of the node and gradually work your way down to the bottom. Some the simpler lessons will be a review, for others its all new. Simply click each gray wheel (chat macro) from top to bottom till your an expert. Take your time, you can go at your own pace. You also only need internet access and this program running to use the nodes. Start by hitting the plus sign next to Part I and hit the gear symbols from top to bottom.<br><br>The tutorial includes many lessons on the wbe included as links. You will need to sign up for our forum boards for this to work. this is well worth your while since you can find games, miniatures for online games, recruiting games and more.<br><br><a href="http://z9.invisionfree.com/Mayhem_Gaming/index.php?act=idx">Forums</a><br><br>In addition our community has several admins who will be happy to help if you have any questions. Just ask for one on the server or check out the <a href="http://s9.zetaboards.com/Mayhem_Gaming/stats/staff/">Admin Team</a> Welcome to the OpenRPG Mayhem Gaming Live Tutorial. By a few clicks of a button and using a few nodes this tutorial will guide you through creating and using nodes, using and placing miniatures and maps, changing setting in the open RPG program and more. If there is more than one of you, just follow along and say 'ok' when done with each exercise. If you know how to do things in an exercise just say 'ok' right away so we can move on. Welcome to Mayhem Gaming!You probably know how to hop on a server by now. To create a room you click the Game Server Menu then Browse Servers and look on the right side to see where to create a room. Make a room named OpenRPG Fun and assign an admin pass of fun. The admin pass is used for assiging roles and booting unwated people from your room.<br><br>(optional) Check the password box. Make the password for the room "fun" also. The password prevents anyone without the password from entering your room. From within your new room you can do all the exercises in the following lessons without disturbing anyone.When in doubt you can refer to the Mayhem forum's help board for more information or extra input. You will need to be a member of the forum to access them. Most of the threads have screen captures to help you understand the explanation. <a href="http://s9.zetaboards.com/Mayhem_Gaming/forum/47958/">Mayhem help forum for openrpg</a>Your name when you load the program starts as No Name, but that's not right. To change your name type '/name Joe' or '/name Angel'. Your name will change to what you make it. Try it!If you type (/me text) it uses your name in place of (/me) and puts stars around it. This is used in games to announce actions alot. ((text in parenthisis is used for OOC talk)).The Plugins can be accessed in the plugin command menu. Look up at the top bar and see plugins then click on it. When the menu pops up click on the control menu. This brings up the main menu of the all the plugins. You can double click on the ones you want or you can single click on them and then choose the enable button down on the bottom. You can get information on each by looking up plug in info. There is also a enable and disable all also.Before messing with the map or using some features of OpenRPG you must be assigned a role. Your role appears in the player list at the lower left hand side. Your name appears in a color with a number aside it. You start as a lurker with your name in gray. Players are black and GMs are red. To change your role click on your name once in the player list and right click then scroll down to assign role. Enter the room admin pass and select new role. Make yourself a GM for the following lessons. In a game you may sometimes use a miniature to represent your character on the map screen in a battle. If yu expand the Nodes For Lesson section below you will see a Vampires node with a bullet icon. Double clickthe vamires node and a screen will open listing Savannah and Marcus. Highlight Savannah and hit 'Add'. A miniature appears on the map screen! You can also add Marcus to the screen if you like.<br><br>Now press the miniatures tab just below the map screen. It's the 3rd big tab over in the middle of the screen under the map. When on this screen a bar appears where you can insert a url to a mini you post on the web. You then hit add and a miniature appears on the map. Using this address bar is one way to add minis. The other is using a miniature library like you did earlier. mainiature libraries can be designed with any minis that are on the web. Any miniature has to be on the web before you can add it to the map and free sites like yahoo geocities can be used for this.<br><br>Try adding this mini url to the map: http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/1056/yolcholww5.gif<br><br>A yolchol appears ready to serve you. While the miniatures tab is depressed, use your mouse and click on the yolchol. Right Click and hit properties. You can now give it a name, say Yolchol, and change it's pixel size by halving the numbers in the pixel box. Hit ok, it will shrink and have a name. You can also highlight a mini by clicking it (the red box appears around it). Now with the red box on the mini click on the map to a new destination point. The mini will move!<br><br>Also See: <a href="http://z9.invisionfree.com/Mayhem_Gaming/index.php?showtopic=1138">Miniatures Tab Tutorial</a>If you had to make all the miniatures for your games, it would be rough. Fortunately people have been doing just that for some time and are willing to share. Our forum features many minis for your use:<br><br><a href=http://z9.invisionfree.com/Mayhem_Gaming/index.php?showforum=229>Minis</a><br><br>Click on the Vampire thread and pick a vampire mini. Hold the mouse over it and right click, hit properties. A screen appears, highlight the entire URL shown, right click and hit copy. Hit ok on the screen and go back to OpenRPG. Paste your URL into the address bar and hit add. Your vampire appears on screen. There are 1000's of minis you can add this way from the Mayhem Gaming Forums Also see my image shack site full of miniatures: <a href="http://profile.imageshack.us/user/miniman1974/">Image Shack Site</a><br>Click on name to sort names under My tags and find the type of creature you want.Next we'll use the whiteboard tab so click on that. When this feature is on you can draw or write text on the map. If you still have your yolchol on the screen draw a circle around him with your mouse. Drop down and make your line size bigger and draw some more. Then drop down freeform and change to text. Add 'My text' to the map. When done hit the background tab.<br><br>Also see: <a href="http://z9.invisionfree.com/Mayhem_Gaming/index.php?showtopic=1502&st=0#entry2066719">Whiteboard Tab Tutorial</a>Select the Background tab. You can use the drop down list to make a background color, image, no image at all or a texture. To insert an image paste in a url from the web much like you would with a miniature except the image is in the back and cannot be moved around. Try pasting this in as an image:<br><br>http://porcupinestudio.com/images/11farmonoldscholls.jpg<br><br>Keep your map up for next session: Fog. Also see: <a href="http://z9.invisionfree.com/Mayhem_Gaming/index.php?showtopic=1153">Background Tab Tutorial</a>You should still have your map up as a background from last lesson and your status should be red (GM). Hit the fog tab. Now right click the map and select Hide All. A gray layer appears over then map meaning you can see it and everyone else sees black. Under the map make sure the radio button is set to show and not hide. Use your mouse and draw a circle on the now grey map. A portion of the map is revealed! This is useful for dungeon delving. Now right click the map and select Remove Fog Layer.Depress the grid tab. You can change the size from 60 to 20. You can also change the drop down menu from solid lines to dotted or no lines. There is rectangular, isometric and hexagonal grid. When done changing hit apply.<br><br><u>Tip</u> If you are using a map that already has sqaures set the grid to 10 and use no lines. This will enable you to use the squares already set on your map.<br><br>Also see: <a href="http://z9.invisionfree.com/Mayhem_Gaming/index.php?showtopic=1131">Grid Tab Tutorial</a>Depress the general tab. From here the default map button always takes you back to that green map with the grid, no matter what you have loaded up at the time. You can also define the map screen size (width and height). You can zoom in and out on the map using controls to the right. Most importantly you can set up a map with maps and minis placed as you like:<br><br>Set up your map and minis as desired. Depress General tab. Right click the map. Select Save Map. Save it as a file.<br><br><b>Important :</b> To load your map don't load it from the game tree. Hit general tab, right click the map and load map, select your file. Any other way causes a bunch of mini updates and crashing. There are typically two ways to find games. 1) Lurk the servers and whisper in game rooms to GMs or look for recruiting game rooms. 2) Sign up for our forums and look at the recruiting game section. I recommend both methods.