I decided that I'll run a series of RA2 tutorials in the form of youtube shorts alongside sakura sunrise 2. These tutorials will mostly be around skinning and IRL building, but I may also sometimes do one about a different area of RA2.
Skinning tutorials
Chassis skin part 1:
https://youtube.com/shorts/3d9jWOpiFMM?feature=share
Chassis skin part 2:
https://youtube.com/shorts/3d9jWOpiFMM?feature=share
Building tutorials (no BFE)
Basic vertical spinner supports:
https://youtube.com/shorts/_5-goGDbo-o?feature=share
Playing the ground game (wedgelets and panel wedges):
https://youtube.com/shorts/dWhzLtSBqQQ?feature=share
Simple aesthetic additions part 1:
https://youtube.com/shorts/cWCLaz1e0zg?feature=share
Simple aesthetic additions part 2:
https://youtube.com/shorts/1-ebqm7-n-4?feature=share
Seamless flipper bend:
https://youtube.com/shorts/hJ14hMCUvEw?feature=share
Ideal battery quantities:
https://youtube.com/shorts/my2JAn56APU?feature=share
Servo motor for axes:
https://youtube.com/shorts/6vXjm3i2egU?feature=share
Accessing cheatbot2:
https://youtube.com/shorts/or2-CbmASKM?feature=share
Extenderbots flipper internals:
https://youtube.com/shorts/HvBL7eUGDUY?feature=share
Extenderbot vertical spinner internals:
https://youtube.com/shorts/FNVYWDQc4pA?feature=share
BFE
BFE chassis height:
https://youtube.com/shorts/_uQ0RvG5bRY?feature=share
Moving parts w/ BFE:
https://youtube.com/shorts/n3YKHxucoqw?feature=share
BFE burst arc:
https://youtube.com/shorts/Mko6A2boJNE?feature=share
Software and other stuff used in tutorials
Paint.net: https://www.getpaint.net/download.html
Kris Vandermotten's paint.net effects (the plugin pack I use the drop shadow effect from): https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/8375-drop-shadow-and-other-effects-krisvdms-plugin-pack-updated-2023-08-27-v5030/
Notepad++: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/